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MOVIE CLUB: Tully & The Power of Postpartum Ghost Stories with Janet Manley

MOVIE CLUB: Tully & The Power of Postpartum Ghost Stories with Janet Manley

The Mother Of It All · The Mother Of It All

March 29, 202451m 13s

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Show Notes

LitHub contributing editor Janet Manley joins us to talk about the postpartum comedy with a horror twist that started it all, 2018’s Tully. We discuss how the conversation around the postpartum period has changed in six years, what the New York Times got wrong about this film, and what we would go back and offer our postpartum selves.

Links:

Janet’s newsletter, Kafka’s Baby

Janet’s coverage of the movie here and here

Stupid NYT review

Better Vulture review

Book Recs:


Samantha Hunt’s Mr. Splitfoot

Rachel Yoder’s Nightbitch

Julia Fine’s The Upstairs House




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