Lit Up

Lit Up Lit Up with Angela Ledgerwood is a podcast about books, writers and all things literary.

From the writers they love to read to the writers they happen to love, Angela goes beyond the book and ask authors who are sparking the world's cultural conversations what they're reading, what they are thinking, and what inspires them. This isn’t a talk show about process or literary theory, but instead explores how what we read reflects how we live. Angela Ledgerwood began her career interviewin

g artists for Interview Magazine before becoming an editor at Cosmopolitan, where she wrote and edited articles devoted to news and books. Emily Gould is the author of the novel, Friendship and essay collection, And the Heart Says Whatever. She also is the co-founder of Emily Books, the online independent bookstore.

08/25/2023

Prachi Gupta graces the pod this week to talk about her much-anticipated memoir THEY CALLED US EXCEPTIONAL that explores how the quest for the American dream impacted her Indian American family. Prachi’s book puts words to inexplicable feelings and investigates the impact of family secrets and ultimately the price of emotional freedom. This is a tender and insightful conversation and Prachi’s work will be a healing gift to those who need it. 💕

05/05/2023

Always a treat to stumble upon a thoughtfully curated independent bookshop like (the brick-and-mortar shop from ) in Santa Monica, as our Editorial & Marketing consultant did today! Their shelves are imaginatively organized by mood & theme, with many rows of books hand-selected by friends of Lit Up, like .fitzgerald. Also spotted: books by former guests & ! We’ll be back, Zibby’s! 🩵📚🌴🩵

04/27/2023

Cheers to a night spent in fabulous company!

Tonight I gathered together brilliant minds from the worlds of food criticism, design, restaurants, cookbooks & recipe development, and community event organizing — , , & — for a conversation about how each of them engages with food for a bigger purpose. Each of these women shared their candid perspectives on some of the major shifts they’re seeing and leading in the restaurant world, in food media, and in food culture at large.

I hope you’ll follow their respective work in the many (delicious, fascinating, refreshing) forms it takes❣️and listen to my recent chat on the podcast with Natasha about her newly launched debut book, “More Than Cake: 100 Baking Recipes Built for Pleasure and Community” ! 🍰

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02/08/2023

Congratulations to brilliant for her Pen Faulkner Award for Fiction nomination for her novel SWEET, SOFT, PLENTY RHYTHM: A NOVEL ! Listen to her on episode 52 ⚡️🎼🎷🎺❤️

02/07/2023

This week, we’d like to recommend a new reading list by Jennifer Maritza McCauley (), author of the newly arrived collection When Trying to Return Home, out from , whose stories span a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life in Puerto Rico, Pittsburgh, Louisiana, Miami, and beyond. Jennifer’s list, published by Electric Literature (), features 10 Afro-Latina poets, fiction writers, and memoirists whose work explores multifaceted experiences of inhabiting multiple identities.

Recommendations include Jasminne Mendez (), Houston-based, Dominican-American poet and author of the personal essay and poetry collection Night-Blooming Jasmin(n)e (from ); Yesenia Montilla (), author of the poetry collections The Pink Box and Muse Found in a Colonized Body (Willow Books); and Amina Gautier, author of the short story collection The Loss of All Lost Thing (Elixir Press), among many writers and reads we’re excited about.

(We’ve linked to the full list in our Stories!)

What are you currently reading & loving right now? Let us know! ✨

01/30/2023

Thanks to for this stellar selection of bookshops with a point of view in , featuring some all-time great nyc gems: - we’ll certainly be making the rounds this year! 🌟📚🌟

01/27/2023

Dear friends, we already know this of course! delves into the psychological nitty gritty of the person who disregards books…

01/11/2023

Welcome to a new year of Lit Up! ✨

This week I’m excited to share my recent conversation with Tarajia Morrell (), food & travel writer and founder of The Lovage, a blog dedicated to her “lifelong love affair with food.”

Tarajia has a gift for finding remarkable characters through food, and her sensibilities as a writer were shaped in part growing up in a household where cooking and sharing meals were the most important parts of the day—“how love was expressed.”

Much of our conversation focuses on Tarajia’s deeply meaningful collaboration with the late chef Fatima Ali on Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More, her posthumous memoir exploring food and adventure, illness and mortality, with contributions by Fatima’s mother, Farezeh.

Later in the episode, we also swap tips for the perfect roast chicken as we make our way through these last winter months.🕯️🥘🧡

Settle in, enjoy, and we’ll be back with more in two weeks!

12/20/2022

It’s Lit Up’s final episode of the year! Of course, we couldn’t leave you without some stellar book recs to gift this holiday season (or for any celebratory occasion, really)! Check out this episode’s show notes for the full list. 💝

This week I’m welcoming special guest Ruby Smith, my colleague at Sugar23 Books, former NYC bookseller, and one of the most voracious readers I have the pleasure to know, to share her recommendations with us!

Listeners, we also invite you to share a new favorite book you discovered in 2022 in the comments 🔮

From all of us at Lit Up: thank you, thank you for listening this year, supporting independent bookshops, celebrating the writers & readers in your life, and continuing to support the show. Here’s to a very bright new year, filled with the kind of writing that bring us more clarity, wisdom, & delight. More from us in 2023! 🥂

11/22/2022

What is it about Shakespeare that’s made his work so resonant, over 400 years later?

Enter ’sAWill, in which ’s Artistic Director Barry Edelstein gets to the bottom of Shakespeare’s timelessness. This week, we’re excited to share a special preview of this new podcast, thanks to our friends at 🧡

Hear the full episode and more from Where There’s a Will, wherever you listen to Lit Up⚡️

11/17/2022

Our series spotlighting independent bookshops around the world, and the passionate booksellers who light up our reading lives, continues this week! 💞📖

Our latest episode is brought to you by the independent, queer-owned Elliott Bay Book Company (), founded in 1973 and located in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. Part of the daily life of Elliott Bay for over five decades, they host an almost daily author reading series, and while they’ve have had the pleasure of hosting some of the world’s preeminent writers, from its inception Elliott Bay has sought to feature an expansive mix of emerging and debut, famous and infamous writers alike.

Tune in to hear a recommendation from one of their booksellers, Kate, and pick up copies of our guest Susan Orlean’s books in person if you’re local to Seattle or online at elliottbaybook.com ✨

p.s. We’re always on the lookout for indie bookshops to feature and partner with! Send us a DM or drop us a line at [email protected] if you have any ideas💡

08/24/2022

Lit Up friends, we’re excited to kick off a new series that celebrates incredible local, independent bookshops around the world and spotlights the booksellers who make all of our reading lives bright.🌟

This week’s episode is brought to you by our friends at Books Are Magic () in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Tune in to hear Aatia Davison from the Books Are Magic team recommend a book that lights her up. 💖📖

p.s. Want to tell us about your favorite indie bookshop, or recommend one we should feature on a future segment? Send us a DM or drop us a line at [email protected] !

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