102 Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata — Gender and Cross-Cultural Satire

Julia and Victoria parse through all the bizarre takes by professional critics and writers on Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• New Film Club with Julia & Victoria episode! Why we’re not persuaded by Netfix’s Austen adaptation

• Sayaka Murata’s Eerie “Convenience Store Woman” Is a Love Story Between a Misfit and a Store by Katy Waldman (The New Yorker) 

• This anti-capitalist novel explores what it means to be 'normal' in an abnormal world by Marianne Eloise (i-D Vice) 

• I thought I was too different to see myself in a novel – but Sayaka Murata got me by Naoise Dolan (The Guardian)

• Life Ceremony: Stories by Sayaka Murata

• For Japanese Novelist Sayaka Murata, Odd Is the New Normal by Motoko Rich (The New York Times) 

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• Neurotribes by Steve Silberman

• Unmasking Autism by Dr. Devon Price

• The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

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