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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We had a great time talking with @ktmayfield.bsky.social about Gone Wolf and its amazingly prolific author Amber McBride, diversity in children's books, and what kind of books children actually like as opposed to what adults think they should like. #kidlit

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Nancy Hudgins @nancyhudgins.com · 27/06/2026

The generous @deborahkalb.bsky.social not only co-hosted me with @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social on @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social , she kindly interviewed me for her blog. Thanks,🎈Deborah🎈. I appreciate all you do for the #writingcommunity. Great questions!

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Nancy Hudgins @nancyhudgins.com · 19/06/2026

I agree with Mary Grace. A great read! #kidlit

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Groundbreaking books aren't always great books, but John Donovan's 1969 YA novel I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip is both. Thanks to @nancyhudgins.com for introducing us to it! #Pride #BookSky

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Author Alex Poppe joined us to talk about Deenie, Judy Blume's story about a girl, pigeonholed by her family as the pretty one, who discovers she has scoliosis. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

We reread Eleanor Estes's The Moffats at a friend's suggestion and had a great time returning the story of four children growing up in a small Connecticut town in the 1910s. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Some listeners have mentioned that they'd like to do a (re)read-along at some point. This wonderful story about a brother and sister who run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York would be a great choice!

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

L'Engle's Austin family sings canons in rounds at the dinner table and has philosophical discussions about free will with visiting clerics. As a pretentious literary teenager, I was obsessed with them.

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

We did a Q&A about the podcast for the middle grade book blog Smack Dab in the Middle and had fun revisiting our first three season. smack-dab-in-the-middle.blogspot.com/2026/02/rere...

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I love this book and am so excited that’s it’s coming out into the world!

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Deborah Kalb @deborahkalb.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I interviewed Mary Grace about our podcast, REREADING OUR CHILDHOOD! smack-dab-in-the-middle.blogspot.com/2026/02/rere...

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Finally finished my holiday roundup of 1925 children’s books at the tail end of the holidays. Happy New Year, everyone! mylife100yearsago.com/2026/01/01/c...

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I often feel like our most recent episode is my favorite, but I think this one really is.

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

It’s great to revisit my contribution to the Parlando Project!

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I had that book out of the library for something like a year during COVID!

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I had a great time at the Lost City Books event! I’m not a ghost story person at all, and I’m so glad I made an exception for Happy People Don’t Live Here.

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This looks amazing! I cohost a podcast where we discuss books from our childhood, and we talk about Nordstrom a lot.

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

One of the best things about Theater Shoes is that the children in the book attend the same theatrical school as the three sisters in Ballet Shoes, and we learn about their later lives through their letters to the children.

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Deborah Kalb @deborahkalb.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

On our latest podcast episode, Mary Grace and I discussed E.B. White's classic CHARLOTTE'S WEB! @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The only Mary Grace in literature is a grotesque Flannery O’Connor character.

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Me too, but I live in South Africa and the coverage is pretty much 100 percent curling.

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I know that might sound like an overambitious goal given the level that a lot of students are at, but AI-like prose shouldn’t be what they’re taught to aim for.

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

We need to change our definition, even at the high school level, of what makes writing good. Less focus on structure, more on voice.

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Also, I mispronounced "divining rod" about 15 times.

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

My choice too! It’s also incredibly funny.

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

You guys were SO funny! I’ve been telling my friends to watch the recording.

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Deborah Kalb @deborahkalb.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Q&A with Christina Baker Kline and Anne Burt about their new novel, PLEASE DON'T LIE. tinyurl.com/e7fw2ay6

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

My dental highlight was when the hygienist assumed there was an error in my birth date because I couldn’t possibly be that old.

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

This book mysteriously appeared in the not-quite-full box of books I mailed to myself from Dublin. What, do they keep copies of NYRB Classics lying around to stop the books from rattling around? Wouldn’t bubble wrap be cheaper?

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I never would have reread Little Women as an adult if it weren’t for the podcast—one of the many reasons I feel lucky to be doing it. Thanks for joining us, Jamie!

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

COVID put the kibosh on my plans to go to the T.S. Eliot International Summer School at Oxford, but as I recovered in Dublin I went ahead and did my seminar project: this blog post on what reviewers thought of Virginia Woolf's 1922 novel Jacob's Room. mylife100yearsago.com/2025/07/10/v...

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

A lot of Americans commemorated this July 4 in a minor key. I was one of them, in COVID isolation in Dublin. I wanted to recognize our country's anniversary in some way, though, so I took a look at magazine covers from 100 years ago: mylife100yearsago.com/2025/07/04/j...

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

As we discuss on the podcast, this book includes racist tropes that are painful for a current-day fan of Eager to read. A subsequent book, The Well-Wishers, contains a strong anti-racism message.

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

This episode was especially fun for me because I recently visited Australia, where Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers was born.

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Thanks so much, Jen! Connecting with people who loved the same books that we did is one of the best things about doing the podcast.

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

This was one of Deborah's childhood favorites, but I somehow missed it as a child. Better late than never!

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Words of wisdom from Nancy as she drives along a highway in her convertible: "“Oh, why can’t all people be nice like this scenery and not make trouble?”

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I returned to the world of 100 years ago to check out the first issue of the New Yorker. The writing was mostly pretty bad, but there were some glimpses of the great magazine it would become. mylife100yearsago.com/2025/02/28/t...

Cover of New Yorker, February 21, 1925, man in top head looking at a butterfly through a magnifying glass.

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Surprisingly, the author of this quintessentially British novel turns out to have spent much of her life right around the corner from my old apartment in Washington, D.C.

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The one in Meet Me in St. Louis where they’re square dancing and throwing mandolins around.

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The International T. S. Eliot Society @intleliotsociety.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

CALL FOR PAPERS 📢📢📢📢 Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society 2–5 July 2025 Dublin, Ireland Join us for the first time ever in Dublin 🤓🥳

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I belatedly rang in 1925 on my blog with a countdown of the top posts of 1924. The twenties are in full roar, and I'm looking forward to an eventful year ahead. mylife100yearsago.com/2025/01/09/t...

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