James, Sam and Eyad discuss Tommy Orange's There There, one of the most important Native American novels to be published in recent years.  We debate whether there are too many points of view in the novel, the tension between traditional and contemporary culture, and whether socially important novels are shielded from criticism

This is the second book in our series Race in Contemporary America where we read books written by contemporary minority writers.  Don't want to hear spoilers?  Listen to our previous episode where we reviewed the book.

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Beautiful sadness.

This episode we review There There, Tommy Orange's bombshell award-winning debut.  This episode will not contain any plot spoilers.  Join us next week for an in-depth discussion on the ideas in the book.

This is the second book in our series Race in Contemporary America where we read books written by contemporary minority writers.  

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We have a in-depth discussion on Sag Harbor, Colson Whitehead's meditation on summer and the in-betweenness of being a black teenager attending an elite New York prep school.  We discuss respectability politics, post-blackness, and whether Sag Harbor is a novel of manners and not a bildungsroman.

This is the first book in our series Race in Contemporary America where we read books written by contemporary minority writers.  Don't want to hear spoilers?  Listen to our previous episode where we review the book.

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This week we review Colson Whitehead's Sag Harbor, an earlier novel that's been overshadowed by his two more recent critically acclaimed works The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad.  We debate the merits of Sag Harbor, learn about the historical background of real-life Sag Harbor, NY and discuss who we would recommend this novel to.

This is the first book in our series Race in Contemporary America where we read books written by contemporary minority writers.  

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For the conclusion of our Pandemic Literature Series, we revisit Katherine Anne Porter's Pale Horse Pale Rider, Jose Saramago's Blindness and Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven. We debate what makes a novel feel real to us, if these novels critique the status quo, and whether we are fetishizing death more in contemporary society.

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