S3 Ep 18: On Feminism and Fictionalized Histories: Curtis Sittenfeld Tackles Centrism, Clintonism, and All Things ‘Hillary Rodham'

In this episode, Curtis Sittenfeld discusses the mix of historical context and fictionalized character development—as well as the double standards every professional woman faces—in her new novel, Rodham. Sittenfeld joins Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to ask the question no one else has dared to: what would the world look like had Hillary Rodham never accepted Bill Clinton’s marriage proposal?

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This episode was produced by Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan.

Guests:

• Curtis Sittenfeld

Selected readings for the episode:

• Curtis Sittenfeld
• Rodham
• You Think It, I’ll Say It
• Sisterland
• American Wife
• Prep: A Novel
• “White Women LOL” from Oprah Magazine
• Others
• Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn’t by Amy Chozick
• The President’s Daughter by Ellen Emerson White
• Philip Roth
• John Updike
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• Wellesley, 1969 from “With Her,” a podcast by Hillary Clinton
• Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 1969 Commencement Speech

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