Our 2024 Summer Reads: *Passing* (Nella Larsen), *The Great Gatsby* (F. Scott Fitzgerald), *Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture* (Justine Picardie), *The French Chef in America: Julia Child’s Second Act* (Alex Prud’homme), *A Pipe for February* (Charles H. Red Corn)

Episode 54 is the 2024 Page to Screen podcast where The Boston Sisters talk about 5 books related to historical drama series and films for summer reading.

The 2023 Page to Screen summer reading podcast is one of Historical Drama with The Boston Sisters’s top 10 episodes. This year we’re highlighting books that provide a deeper dive into the films and series featured on the podcast since its launch in November 2021 up to our recent 3rd season.

Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture by Justine Picardie (2023) | THE NEW LOOK (Ep. 53)
The French Chef in America: Julia Child’s Second Act by Alex Prud’homme (2017) | JULIA (Ep. 44)
Passing by Nella Larsen (1929) | PASSING (Ep. 2)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) | THE GREAT GATSBY (Ep. 50)
A Pipe for February by Charles H. Red Corn (2003) | KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (Ep. 48)

This podcast was recorded inside the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, in Washington, DC. The public library is one of our primary resources for books and other materials we use to prepare for our podcasts.

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Ep. 54 - PAGE TO SCREEN: Our 2024 Summer Reads from the Podcast

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The Boston Sisters have selected 5 books for summer reading inspired by past episodes of the podcast since its launch in 2021. We’ve got your covered for historical drama for summer 2024.

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Ep. 53 - THE NEW LOOK: A Deep Dive with The Boston Sisters

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The Boston Sisters take a deep dive into the series THE NEW LOOK. Not just a story about haute couture fashion by Christian Dior (Ben Mendelsohn) and Coco Chanel (Juliette Binoche), THE NEW LOOK is based on real-life events during World War II that include the impact of the 4-year Nazi occupation of France and the early months of Liberation on Paris’s community of designers, Resistance fighters, business owners, and everyday people struggling to survive.

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Ep. 50 - THE GREAT GATSBY (1974) at 50: Love, Lies and the Illusion of the American Dream

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It’s the 50th anniversary of the release of the 1974 film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’sTHE GREAT GATSBY. Author and scholar Emily Bernard from our PASSING conversation is back to explore the overlapping themes in this classic film directed by Jack Clayton, as well as the 2013 reimagining by Baz Luhrmann. THE GREAT GATSBY features Robert Redford as Jay Gatsby, Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan, and Sam Waterston as Nick Carraway. The film is a window into the roaring 1920s and also a mirror on American social constructs for wealth, class, and illusion, as well as the destructive power to recapture the past.

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Ep. 48 - Charles H. Red Corn’s Novel Elevates Osage Culture in KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

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Episode 48 features a conversation about the Martin Scorsese film KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON with Dr. Moira RedCorn and brother Yancey Red Corn, members of the Osage Nation. Yancey Red Corn appears in the Martin Scorsese film as Osage Chief Arthur Bonnicastle and Moira Red Corn was an extra in the film. Yancy and Moira’s father, the late Charles H. Red Corn authored the novel, A Pipe for February, released by the University of Oklahoma Press over 10 years before David Grann’s book Killers of the Flower Moon. Both books were optioned for the film which has received 10 Academy Award™ nominations.

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Ep. 44 - A Culinary Journey with JULIA and Janet Cam

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JULIA, based on the life of the "French Chef" star and cookbook author Julia Child, is back for a 2nd season on Max. Also back on the podcast is wine expert and restaurant strategist Janet Cam, co-founder of Washington, DC's storied Le Pavillon restaurant, the first nouvelle cuisine restaurant of its kind in the U.S. We talk about the challenges for Julia Child to recreate classic French dishes in the U.S., women in the culinary industry, and Julia and Janet's journeys and adventures through wine and food in the domestically and abroad.

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Ep. 2 - “Passing”

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Emily Bernard (American literature scholar and author) dives into Passing, the Rebecca Hall (Netflix) film based on the 1929 novel by Nella Larsen, and talks about how the characters Clare Kendra’s and Irene Redfield’s struggles for identity and belonging mirror tensions about race, class, and sex that continue today. “Passing”features Ruth Negga (as Clare Kendra), Tessa Thompson (Irene Redfield). Available on Netflix.