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Her writing is clear, crisp, emotionally evocative, and always humorous. - Summary by Kirsten Wever<br /><br />This episode includes AI-generated content.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72870119</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:52:51 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72870119/gigolo_edna_ferber.mp3" length="253048408" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:txt purpose="ai-content">true</podcast:txt><itunes:author>Edna Ferber</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Gigolo is a collection of short stories by Edna Ferber, best known for her novels Show Boat and So Big (for which she won the Pulitzer Prize). 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But she write also of men’s struggles with the rapidly changing social politics of the early 1900’s, showing how various characters resist, but ultimately move with a time in which women are gaining unprecedented power and influence of women from the home to the workplace. Her stories are about real people; her characters are familiar to the reader, even a century after she created them. Her writing is clear, crisp, emotionally evocative, and always humorous. - Summary by Kirsten Wever<br /><br />This episode includes AI-generated content.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>31631</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>auto,conquering,ferber,gigolo,mechanic,oklahoma,single,sixties,women,workplace</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/b2a1181d32b6e644171d69890e6de30c.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item></channel></rss>
