All About EVE: A Feminist Retelling of Paradise Lost

Casey Ballard, long time lover of feminist retellings of classic stories, interviews B.K. O’Connor about her new novel, Eve, a retelling of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, that expands on the notion that eternity spent in ignorance is no life to live. Casey and Becky discuss Eve as an intellectual feminist, the bridging of cultures, and why people should still read the classics.  .

Books and resources mentioned:

Eve by B. K. O’Connor

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler

Circe by Madeline Miller

The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Original music by Amarissa
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Renee Powers founded Feminist Book Club in 2018 to provide a space for intersectional feminists to learn, grow, and connect. When not reading or running the biz, you can find her drinking coffee and trying unsuccessfully to teach her retired racing greyhound how to fetch. Favorite genres: feminist thrillers, contemporary literary fiction, short stories, and anything that might be described as "irreverent"