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Renee and Natalia are back with a conversation about some of the books they love that fall into super niche genres. For example, Natalia has an entire bookshelf dedicated to books about bananas and Renee will never say no to a thriller with an unlikeable 20-something woman protagonist who works in a startup. Tune in to hear all the weird things they’re both into.

Books Mentioned: 

Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang

How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang

Diamond Head by Cecily Wong (interview here)

Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

Black Sun & Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse (interview here)

The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang 

Lobizona & Cazadora by Romina Garber (interview here)

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoka Matsuda

Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper

She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams

Self-Care by Leigh Stein

The Assistants by Camille Perri

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

Smile and Look Pretty by Amanda Pellegrino

A Special Place for Women by Laura Hankin (interview here)

Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life by Sutton Foster

The Power of Knitting by Loretta Napoleoni (review here)

Bananas, Beaches and Bases by Cynthia Enloe

Skin: A Natural History by Nina G. Jablonski

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask

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Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Jessica Hernandez, a transnational Indigenous scholar, scientist, and community advocate based in the Pacific Northwest, about her new book Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science.

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Megan and Carrie talk with Katie Craig about Myanmar/Burma, the languages spoken there and her organization Myanmar Indigenous Community Partners, which works with local communities to develop and celebrate these languages – and the people who speak them – in developing quality, locally relevant education in order to preserve languages and ways of life as well as to promote equality and social cohesion.
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Myanmar Dance Workout Video during the coup (action starts around 1:45)

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In this special (kind of bonus) episode, Dr Anna Marie Trester and Sophie Henry talk about Anna Marie's new book Employing Linguistics: Thinking and Talking about Careers for Linguists.

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Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Jessi Grieser about her new book, The Black Side of the River, DC, Tennessee and the way Black residents of Anacostia talk about their neighborhood and themselves.

Galician songs here and here

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Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Enrico Torre about Galician and other languages spoken in Spain and why they matter.

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Carrie and Megan talk with Mara Wilson about her voice, her neurodivergence, and the IPA.

Transcript available here.

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Megan and Carrie talk to Dr Sylvia Sierra about her new book, Millennials Talking Media: Creating Intertextual Identities in Everyday Conversation, intertextuality, memes, and the tropes embedded in internet memes.

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Carrie and Megan talk to Jeff Zentner, author of The Serpent King (among others), about his YA books set in Appalachia, why he doesn't use eye-dialect, and why representation matters.

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Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Joyhanna Yoo Garza, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard, about K-Pop, semiotics, cultural appropriation, and Ali Wong. (Buy her book here.)

We also discuss International Week of Deaf People 2021 and The genocide of signed languages: protecting the linguistic rights of Africa’s deaf children.

One of our patrons sent in the correct pronunciation of her name. Thanks SZ!

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