Carol Dysinger

Bookish with Sonya Walger

My guest this week is Carol Dysinger, Director of the short documentary, Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone if You're a Girl. This film won the Academy Award for best short documentary as well as the BAFTA for best short, and best documentary short from the IDA and the Tribeca Film Festival. She is the recipient of multiple awards, among them the David Payne Carter award for excellence in teaching and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is Associate Professor at NYU Film School.

Under My Skin: Volume One of My autobiography, to 1949, by Doris Lessing, 1994

The Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing, 1962

Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë, 1847

Middlemarch, by George Eliot, 1871

The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein, 1964

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