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I’m going to be tired for a while. But [one of the things I think is really
important for keeping] that drive is to curate a reading diet that has some
things for pleasure, some things for edification, some poetry if you’re into
poetry, some nonfiction, stuff from different time periods… I find that to be
helpful and sustaining, so you’re not just being bombarded with all the
information about all the racism ever, right now!
A few months ago, at the start of social isolation, we recorded a bonus
episode, checking in with four
interesting people to see how they were doing and how it was affecting their
reading. We thought we might do another episode now that social restrictions
are, in some places, starting to ease—and then there was widespread protesting
against police violence and white supremacy, and political conversations
changed in remarkable ways. The readers we spoke with offer their reflections
on this complex moment, as well as a look at what they’re reading.
Our Guests.
Carissa Harris teaches medieval literature
at Temple University in Philadelphia. Her research and
writing focus on obscenity, rape and consent,
medieval gender and sexuality, and long histories of rape culture and
misogynoir. Her favorite medieval book is The Book of Margery
Kempe, after whom her cat is named.
Alison Kinney’s first book of
cultural history, Hood, was published by
Bloomsbury’s “Object Lessons” series in 2016. She’s written online and/or for
print at The New Yorker, The Paris Review Daily, Harper’s, Lapham’s Quarterly,
Longreads, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The Believer, and
several other publications and has had four Notable Essays in The Best
American Essays 2016–2019. Alison has taught nonfiction writing at The New
School and at Catapult since 2017 and was hired in 2019 as an Assistant
Professor of Writing at Eugene Lang College.
Simone de Rochefort is a Senior Video
Producer at video-games website Polygon,
and she’s one of the hosts of the tech podcast
Rocket on Relay FM. She’s also a notorious
Hemingway aficionado, and you may remember when she joined us for our bonus
episode after we read Hemingway’s A Moveable
Feast.
Shamma Boyarin is an Assistant
Professor in the English Department at the University of Victoria. He is also
the director of the Religion, Culture and Society Program. His research and
teaching interests span medieval literature (with a specific focus on Hebrew
and Arabic literature), religion, and pop culture.
Show Notes.
Our previous bonus episode on Reading During
Crisis.
Cord Whitaker’s interview with the Institute for Advanced
Study.
bell hooks: Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope.
Paula Giddings: Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign
Against Lynching.
Audre Lorde: A Burst of Light and Other Essays.
Camille Acker: Training School for Negro Girls.
Ben Jonson: The Masque of
Blackness and The
Irish Masque at Court.
Queen Elizabeth’s edicts.
Alison’s essay for How We Are.
Alison’s website, with links to more of her
writing.
Colson Whitehead: Zone One.
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man.
Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile, The Big
Four, Murder Is Easy…
Louise Penny.
Ernest Hemingway: Pursuit as
Happiness
(a newly published story).
A reading list of African-American mystery
writers.
Bogi Takács: The Trans Space Octopus Congregation.
Tom King: Vision: The Complete Series.
Robin Wall Kimmerer: Braiding Sweetgrass.
Jakov Z. Mayer: Nehemia (an extract translated by Ilana Kurshan).
Sabbatai Zevi, a historical
figure mentioned in Mayer’s novel.
Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon and help
us create this podcast—but also support antiracism
activists.
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I’m going to be tired for a while. But [one of the things I think is really
important for keeping] that drive is to curate a reading diet that has some
things for pleasure, some things for edification, some poetry if you’re into
poetry, some nonfiction, stuff from different time periods… I find that to be
helpful and sustaining, so you’re not just being bombarded with all the
information about all the racism ever, right now!
A few months ago, at the start of social isolation, we recorded a bonus
episode, checking in with four
interesting people to see how they were doing and how it was affecting their
reading. We thought we might do another episode now that social restrictions
are, in some places, starting to ease—and then there was widespread protesting
against police violence and white supremacy, and political conversations
changed in remarkable ways. The readers we spoke with offer their reflections
on this complex moment, as well as a look at what they’re reading.
Our Guests.
Carissa Harris teaches medieval literature
at Temple University in Philadelphia. Her research and
writing focus on obscenity, rape and consent,
medieval gender and sexuality, and long histories of rape culture and
misogynoir. Her favorite medieval book is The Book of Margery
Kempe, after whom her cat is named.
Alison Kinney’s first book of
cultural history, Hood, was published by
Bloomsbury’s “Object Lessons” series in 2016. She’s written online and/or for
print at The New Yorker, The Paris Review Daily, Harper’s, Lapham’s Quarterly,
Longreads, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The Believer, and
several other publications and has had four Notable Essays in The Best
American Essays 2016–2019. Alison has taught nonfiction writing at The New
School and at Catapult since 2017 and was hired in 2019 as an Assistant
Professor of Writing at Eugene Lang College.
Simone de Rochefort is a Senior Video
Producer at video-games website Polygon,
and she’s one of the hosts of the tech podcast
Rocket on Relay FM. She’s also a notorious
Hemingway aficionado, and you may remember when she joined us for our bonus
episode after we read Hemingway’s A Moveable
Feast.
Shamma Boyarin is an Assistant
Professor in the English Department at the University of Victoria. He is also
the director of the Religion, Culture and Society Program. His research and
teaching interests span medieval literature (with a specific focus on Hebrew
and Arabic literature), religion, and pop culture.
Show Notes.
Our previous bonus episode on Reading During
Crisis.
Cord Whitaker’s interview with the Institute for Advanced
Study.
bell hooks: Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope.
Paula Giddings: Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign
Against Lynching.
Audre Lorde: A Burst of Light and Other Essays.
Camille Acker: Training School for Negro Girls.
Ben Jonson: The Masque of
Blackness and The
Irish Masque at Court.
Queen Elizabeth’s edicts.
Alison’s essay for How We Are.
Alison’s website, with links to more of her
writing.
Colson Whitehead: Zone One.
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man.
Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile, The Big
Four, Murder Is Easy…
Louise Penny.
Ernest Hemingway: Pursuit as
Happiness
(a newly published story).
A reading list of African-American mystery
writers.
Bogi Takács: The Trans Space Octopus Congregation.
Tom King: Vision: The Complete Series.
Robin Wall Kimmerer: Braiding Sweetgrass.
Jakov Z. Mayer: Nehemia (an extract translated by Ilana Kurshan).
Sabbatai Zevi, a historical
figure mentioned in Mayer’s novel.
Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon and help
us create this podcast—but also support antiracism
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