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For September’s theme, we’re discussing rural literature for young people. Host Kendra Winchester is joined by special guests Dr. Chea Parton and Nora Shalaway Carpenter.

Things Mentioned

• Literacy In Place
• Reading Rural YAL podcast
• Whippoorwill Book Award for Rural YA Literature
• Read Appalachia / Literacy in Place Collaboration 

Books Mentioned

GUEST INFO

Chea Parton
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Nora Shalaway Carpenter
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In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner,  Kendra Winchester is joined by special guest Marlanda Dekine.

Books Mentioned

• Thresh & Hold by Marlanda Dekine
• Motherworld: A Devotional for the Alter-Life by Destiny Hemphill
• River Hymns by Tyree Daye
• Cardinal by Tyree Daye
• Gossypiin by Ra Malika Imhotep
• Rice by Nikki Finney

Guest Info

Marlanda Dekine
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It’s Read Appalachia’s Birthday! Host Kendra Winchester is joined by special guests David Joy and Joy Priest.

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Things Mentioned

• Interview with Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle (Reading Women)
• Interview with Leah Hampton (Reading Women)
• Interview with Bernard Clay (100 Days in Appalachia)

Books Mentioned

Guest Info

David Joy 

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Joy Priest

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In the second installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner,  Kendra Winchester is joined by special guest Lucien Darjeun Meadows.

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BOOKS MENTIONED

• In the Hands of the River by Lucien Darjeun Meadows
• Becoming AppalAsian by Lisa Kwong
• Where you Come From Is Gone by Annie Woodford
• Thresh & Hold by Marlanda Dekine
• Mid/South Sonnets edited by C. T. Salazar and Casie Dodd

GUEST INFO
Lucien Darjeun Meadows 

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For Disability Pride Month, host Kendra Winchester is joined by Appodlachia co-host Callie Pruett Schwaber to discuss the importance of disabled people telling their own stories.

Things Mentioned

• Kendra’s interview with Alice Wong on Reading Women

Books Mentioned

• Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally by Emily Ladeau
• Blind Man’s Bluff: A Memoir by James Tate Hill
• What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt by Tessa Miller
• Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
• Some Days: A Tale of Love, Ice Cream, and My Mom's Chronic Illness by Julie A. Stamm
• El Deaf by Cece Bell
• Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century edited by Alice Wong

Guest Info
Callie Pruett Schwaber

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In the very first installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner,  Kendra Winchester is joined by special guest Emma Galloway Stephens.

GUEST INFO

Emma Galloway Stephens is a professor of English and creative writing with an MFA from Converse University. Her poems have been published in Catfish Stew (the annual anthology of the South Carolina Writer’s Association) and The Windhover, and will appear in the upcoming issue of The Nature of Things. You can find her on twitter as @TheEmmaDoodle.

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In this month’s episode, we’re talking about books for Pride Month! Host Kendra Winchester is joined by special guests Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. and Zane McNeill.

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Things Mentioned

• Stacy Jane Grover ft on Ep. 3
• Neema Avashia ft on Ep. 4
• Instagram Live Show with the Contributors to Y’all Means All

Books Mentioned

Guest Info

Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.
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Zane McNeill
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In this month’s episode, Kendra Winchester delves into the world of poetry. She’s joined by special guests Bernard Clay and Lisa Kwong.

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Things Mentioned

• “8 Affrilachian Poetry Collections for Your TBR” (Book Riot)
• “8 More Affrilachian Poetry Collections for Your TBR” (Book Riot)
• Affrilachian Poets Website
• Interview with Bernard Clay for 100 Days in Appalachia

Books Mentioned

• English Lit by Bernard Clay
• Becoming AppalAsian by Lisa Kwong
• Perfect Black by Crystal Wilkinson
• Deifying a Total Darkness by Upfromsumdirt
• Horsepower by Joy Priest
• Masked Man, Black by Frank X Walker
• Many-Storied House by George Ella Lyon

Guest Info

Bernard Clay
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Lisa Kwong
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Kendra Winchester discusses the challenges audiobook narrators face when performing Appalachian dialects. She’s joined by special guests Monica Brashears, Jeanette Illidge, Idra Novey, and Christina Delaine.

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Things Mentioned

• “Better Than Nothing? Exploring the Limitations of AI-audiobooks from a Disabled Person’s Perspective” (Book Riot)
• “10 Audiobook Narrators You Need to Follow on TikTok” (Book Riot)
• “We Need to Stop Asking the Question, Do Audiobooks Count as Reading?” (Book Riot)
• Ronnie Butler Jr’s TikTok
• “Novelist Idra Novey on the Places That Made Her” (Belt Magazine)

Books Mentioned

GUESTS
Monica Brashears
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Jeannette Illidge
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Idra Novey
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Christina Delaine
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Welcome to our special crossover episode for Appalachian Bookshelf, a joint project between Read Appalachia and Appodlachia.

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Things Mentioned

• Interview with Barbara Kingsolver on the Australian podcast The Book Show: “Barbara Kingsolver finds the hillbilly in Charles Dickens”
• Appodlachia’s Episode about the Foster Care System
• Foster (documentary)
• Not Your Average IV User (podcast)

Books Mentioned

• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Discussion Questions

• What are your initial thoughts on the book?
• What are your initial thoughts on Demon as a narrator?
• What did we think of the times when Kingsolver “steps in”, as it were?
  • What are your feelings on Barbara Kingsolver’s discussion of the word “hillbilly” starting on page 68?
• What are your thoughts on the portrayal of social workers and foster care portrayed in the book?
• We have allread different nonfiction books about the opioid crisis in Appalachia. What do we think of the portrayal of addiction and recovery in this novel?
• Now that we have discussed the book, who do you think this book is for?
• Would you recommend this book?

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