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In What Have I Done? Carrie Close writes, “all these little birds keep picking at me/hard, determined beaks peck through skin, scrape/against bone—they dance and chirp ominous tones…” The connection Close builds between themes of love, motherhood, and relationships hits you in the fame like a taut rubber band forcing you to home in on every last detail. Close pens a charged, feminist collection that avoids polishing for the sake of looking good.

Burma oozes greed, corruption, and hope. When an Air Force X-37B mini-space shuttle mysteriously crash lands along the China-Burma border, the Department of Homeland Security tags contractor Gar Randolph to get it back. India and China deploy special forces to do the same. Gar assembles a most unusual team to find the wreckage and carry its top secret components back to Siam. Included is the last person on earth the US government would want on the mission: a drug lord named Ar Phat. On a converging vector is a missionary nutritionist with six Rohingya orphans.

Laura Jones and Heather McDaid are co-directors of the independent publishers 404 INK and joined us in the Audible studios to chat about Nasty Women, a collection of essays on what it is to be a woman in the 21st century. They tell us about their support from Margaret Atwood, how they decided to found a publishing company on the way back from seeing Robot Wars and what being Nasty Women means to them.