A short take on responses to a novel-turned-film.  
Episode by Nicole Dixon
Read by Kassandra Timm

Are the people who ban books ever right, if only by accident? 
Episode by Kathryn Warren

Kathryn Hamilton Warren is a Distinguished Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. She specializes in American literature.

Read by Kassandra Timm

A short take on how Static and Static Shock reflect the expanded dimension of novelistic storytelling by Black creative thinkers.   
Episode by Stephyn Phillips
Read by GiGi Monroe

A short take on an interconnected thread of intellectualism in novels by black men.
Episode by Howard Rambsy 
Episode read by Kassandra Timm.

Terry McMillan's novel was among a chorus of late twentieth-century books that signaled a reawakening in the African American cultural imagination and revealed a strong interest in the representation of Black love, romance, and marriage.
Episode by Aneeka Ayanna Henderson.
Episode read by Kassandra Timm.

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Aneeka Ayanna Henderson is a professor of American Studies at Amherst College. She is the  author of Veil and Vow: Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture.

A short take on how students at a college in Georgia respond to Ralph Ellison's "Battle Royal."
Episode by Jennifer Colatosti.
Read by Kassandra Timm.

Jennifer Colatosti is Associate Professor and Interim Associate Chair of English at Georgia State University’s Perimeter College. She writes fiction and creative nonfiction, and since 2018 has co-organized the literary festival Revival: Lost Southern Voices.

Despite revieing positive reviews, why  did Sutton Griggs have some unfavorable feelings about the circumstances surrounding his first book?
Episode by John Gruesser.
Read by GiGi Monroe.

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Senior Research Scholar at Sam Houston State University, John Gruesser is the author of A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line (Oxford University Press 2022), the editor of Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction (Texas A&M University Press 2022), and the co-editor of a scholarly edition of Griggs’s 1905-06 novel The Hindered Hand (West Virginia University Press 2017), a Broadview Edition of Pauline E. Hopkins's 1901-02 serial novel Hagar's Daughter (2021), and African American Writers Respond to Poe, a special issue of the journal Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation (2023).

Here's a short take on where all those Black Women Writers courses come from. 
Episode by Howard Rambsy II.
Read by Kassandra Timm. 

Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give  found a raw edge that audiences were keen to address. 

Episode written by Ebony Lumumba, Ph.D. -- an associate professor and chair of English at Jackson State University.  She writes, teaches, and thinks most about Black women's resistance and Global South literature.

The episode is read by Kassandra Timm. 

College students are often excited to discuss the subtle radicalism of Iola Leroy by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. 
Episode by Emily VanDette -- Professor of English at SUNY Fredonia.