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- Ep. 98 | Say Hello and If I Had Your Face
To close out October’s theme, Kendra and Sumaiyya discuss Say Hello by Carly Findlay and If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha.
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Books Mentioned
- Say Hello by Carly Findlay
- If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
Further Reading
Winter in Sokcho by Elise Shua Dusapin, Translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins- Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
- Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism edited by Nikki Khanna
- Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture by Emma Dabiri
- Modesty: A Fashion Paradox by Hafsa Lodhi
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
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45 min - Interview with Cinelle Barnes
Kendra talks to Cinelle Barnes, the editor of A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New South, which is out now from Hub City Press.
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Books Mentioned- A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-one Writers of Color on the New South edited by Cinelle Barnes
Cinelle Recommends
- Jesmyn Ward
- Karen Good Marable
- Crystal Wilkinson
- Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
- The Bitter Southerner
- Scalawag
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40 min - Ep. 97 | Beauty Privilege
Kendra, Sumaiyya, and Joce talk about books around October’s theme, Beauty Privilege!
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Things Mentioned- 2020 Booker Shortlist Announced
- JCB Longlist
- National Book Award Longlists
- National Book Foundation 5 Under 35
Books Mentioned- My Past is a Foreign Country by Zeba Talkhani
- Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc
- If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
- Say Hello by Carly Findlay
- Miss Meteor by Tehlor Kay Mejia and Anna-Marie McLemore
- One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
Currently Reading- The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah
- My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
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50 min - Interview with Julianne Clancy, Assistant Director of Marketing with Knopf
Kendra talks to Julianne Clancy, an Assistant Marketing Director with Knopf! Julianne gives listeners a behind-the-scenes look at book marketing and answers listeners’ FAQs!
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Things Mentioned
- Knopf Doubleday’s Website
Guest Bio
Julianne Clancy is an Assistant Director of Marketing with Knopf, Pantheon, and Schocken. Prior to working with Knopf, she held positions within the marketing, copywriting, and production departments of Berkley, NAL, and Penguin Young Readers, as well as working as a freelance copywriter for numerous other publishers. Outside of her publishing career, Julianne is an amateur chef, Tar Heel alum, Nintendo aficionado, distance runner, wife, mother, kitty-mom, and certified Master of Horror, having received her M.Phil in Popular Literature from Trinity College Dublin, with a thesis on Satanic horror. She is a contributor in the recently published From Bayou to Abyss: Examining John Constantine, Hellblazer, from the Sequart Organization.
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46 min - Interview with Vicki Laveau-Harvie
Kendra talks to Vicki Laveau-Harvie about her memoir, The Erratics, which is out now from Knopf.
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Books Mentioned
- The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie
Vicki Recommends
- A Plea for Eros by Siri Hustvedt
- The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt
- Between You and Me by Mary Norris
- The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
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50 min - Ep. 96 | About Us and Growing Up African in Australia
To close out September, Kendra and Jaclyndiscuss About Us and Growing Up African in Australia edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke.
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Things Mentioned- Patreon Episode
- For a brilliant review of this book check out Vuma’s IGTV review @the_diaspora_reader
Books Mentioned- Growing Up African in Australia edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke
- About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times edited Peter Catapano and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Further ReadingNew Australian Fiction 2020 edited by Rebecca Starford- Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy edited by Kelly Jensen
Collisions: Fictions of the Future edited by Leah Jing McIntosh, Cher Tan, Adalya Nash Hussein and Hassan Abul (forthcoming November 2020)- LGBTQ Poetry and Fiction from Appalachia edited by Jeff Mann and Julia Watts
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36 min - Interview with Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
Kendra talks to Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle about her debut novel, Even As We Breathe, which is out now from University of Kentucky Press.
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Books Mentioned
- Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
Morgan Recommends
- Crooked Hallelujah by Kelly Jo Ford
- The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels
- The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
- When These Mountains Burn by David Joy
- F*ckface and Other Stories by Leah Hampton
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42 min - Ep. 95 | Anthologies
For September’s theme, Kendra, Jaclyn, and special guest Dani Roulette recommend anthologies!
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Things Mentioned
- 2020 Booker Longlist Announced
- International Booker Prize Winner Announced
- Nakkiah Lui has launched a publishing imprint called JOAN with Allen and Unwin
- Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction Shortlist Announced
- Teela Reid (co-founder of @blackfulla_bookclub on IG) won the Daisy Utemorrah Award for her manuscript Our Matriarchs Matter
Past Coverage
- A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home edited by Nicole Chung and Mensah Demary
- Interview with Nicole Chung
- Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism edited by Nikki Khanna
- Ep. 87 | API Heritage Month: Nonfiction
Black Marks on the White Page edited by Witi Ihimaera and Tina Makereti- Ep. 73 | Indigenous Women Writers from Around the World
- Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia edited by Dr. Anita Heiss
- Ep. 74 | An American Sunrise and Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
- It’s Not About the Burqa edited by Miriam Khan
- Ep. 63 | Ramadan Reading
- Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World edited by Zahra Hankir
- Ep. 76.5 | Honorable Mentions
Books Mentioned
- Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power Today edited by Allison Whittaker
- Video of Author Readings
- What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence edited by Michele Filgate
- Growing Up African in Australia edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke
- About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times edited Peter Catapano and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
- This Place: 150 Years Retold
Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water edited by Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair and Warren CariouCurrently Reading
- A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South ed by Cinelle Barnes
- We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib
About Our Guest
Danielle Roulette is Anishinaabeg from Dog Creek First Nation. She is a literary blogger and an aspiring writer living on the shores of Lake Winnipeg.
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44 min - Ep. 94 | Breasts and Eggs and The Memory Police
To close out August, Kendra and Sachi discuss The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa and Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami.
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Things Mentioned- Women in Translation Month
- The Translators Aloud Project
- Q&A with Deborah Smith
- Interview with Tina Kover
Books Mentioned- The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, Translated by Stephen Snyder
- Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami, Translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd
Further Reading- Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami, Translated by Allison Markin Powell
- The Court Dancer by Kyung-sook Shin, Translated by Anton Hur
- Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, Translated by Megan Backus
- Human Acts by Han Kang, Translated by Deborah Smith
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51 min - Ep. 93.5 | Weekend of Words Live Show with the Shuffle Collective
As a special episode, here is a live show that Kendra and Jaclyn recorded at the Weekend of Words virtual book festival this spring. The episode is only lightly edited to give listeners the feel of really being there as the episode was recorded. A special thanks to the Shuffle Collective who hosted this event.
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Weekend of Words Live Show- Learn more about the Shuffle Collective
- List of This Year’s Author Interviews
- Caribbean Heritage Month Episode
Books Mentioned- A Burning by Megha Majumdar
- Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deep Anappara
- Conjure Women by Afia Atakora
- The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah
- Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi Abraham
- Saltwater by Jessica Andrews
- The Yield by Tara June June
- When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy
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