Vulgar Geniuses

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Welcome to the Vulgar Geniuses Podcast. We are your host Dennie and Veronica. Each month we will be reviewing a different book written by various authors of color.... more

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October 30, 2020 Such A Fun Age
The debut novel from writer Kiley Reid has proven to find a special place among the newest contemporaries. 𝑺𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝑨 𝑭𝒖𝒏 𝑨𝒈𝒆 drops us dead center into an explosion of drama. Despite being the babysitter, 26 year-old Emira, a Black woman, is wrongly accused of kidnapping a 3 year-old white child in a grocery store. Emira is thrown into a whirlwind of lies, white privilege, and videotape. Reid's attention to laying each character's secrets in plain sight is truly magical. This satirical novel presents us with a timely tale of a racism and a life lesson on how to stay out grown folks business.
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1h 7min
October 27, 2020 Front Desk Ft. Olivia Wang
The Vulgar Geniuses duo take a backseat during this episode of FORKS X FANGS. We are joined by resident kid correspondent, Olivia Wang, as she reviews the novel 𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒕 𝑫𝒆𝒔𝒌 by Kelly Yang. Semi-based on the life of the author, readers learn about Mia Tang who has moved from China with her parents to make a new life in America. To make ends meet, her parents take a job at the Calivista Motel. Unable to clean the rooms and run the front desk, Mia decides to help out her parents by running the front desk for them. Did we mention that Mia is only 10 years old?! This novel grapples with themes such as racism and immigration, making this story a teaching lesson for adults as well.
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44min
October 23, 2020 Michelle Flores
In her chapbook 𝑪𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒔 𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒘𝒂𝒎𝒑, Michelle Flores gives us glimpses into her life as a granddaughter, being a caregiver to a dying parent, and the Cuban lineage that runs deep in her veins. We also learn of a hilarious family secret and the family ties to her children's book 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒕.
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58min
October 16, 2020 Cinelle Barnes - Monsoon Mansion
Filipina author, Cinelle Barnes, sits down with us to talk about her memoir 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏. Cinelle's book documents her childhood in the Philippines as she was thrust from a life of luxury into that of extreme poverty due to the Gulf War. We also discuss the new book that features her as the editor, 𝑨 𝑴𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑩𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈: 𝑾𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉, that chronicles Southern life through the scope of race, gender, sexuality, and more.
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1h 30min
October 13, 2020 Lovecraft Country Ep. 3 & 4
We are back with another special edition of Tiny Bites as we recap episodes 3 & 4 of HBO's 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒇𝒕 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚. Leti buys a house haunted by a racist evil mad scientist. Atticus then teams up with his father to search for the missing pages of Titus Braithwaite which could unlock the greatest magic ever seen.
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42min
September 30, 2020 The Hole
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒐𝒍𝒆 by Hye-Young Pyun gives us Misery mixed with Diary of a Mad Black Woman realness. Oghi wakes up from a coma to find that his wife has died and his entire body is paralyzed after a horrible car accident. Only able to communicate through "yes" or "no" blinks, Oghi is now under the care of his grieving mother-in-law. All hell soon breaks loose once Oghi makes it home from the hospital as his mother-in-law decides to upend the backyard garden and his life.
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1h
September 25, 2020 Lovecraft Country
Sundown towns and magical racists wizards are just a touch of what you will see in Misha Green's television rendition of Matt Ruff's novel 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒇𝒕 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚. Set in the 1950's, we meet Atticus (Jonathan Majors) a veteran solider on his way to Chicago to find his father who has gone missing while on a hunt to find out his dead wife's family legacy. He goes on a road trip with his uncle George (Courtney B. Vance) and friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett) only to find themselves battling huge naked mole multi-eyed vampiric monsters and well...Jim Crow level racism.
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54min
August 28, 2020 A Good Family
AH Kim's novel 𝑨 𝑮𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝑭𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚 speaks to the old age adage that "blood is thicker than water" no matter how many times siblings will stab each other in the back to prove it. This novel was full of sex, drugs and lies but missed the most important thing, a plot!
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54min
August 07, 2020 The Claudia Kishi Club
We bring back one of our favorite segments called Tiny Bites where we talk about literature found in television and film. This week we review Netflix's newest addition, 🅃🄷🄴 🄲🄻🄰🅄🄳🄸🄰 🄺🄸🅂🄷🄸 🄲🄻🅄🄱. This documentary, directed by Sue Ding, explores the most popular character in The Babysitter's Club series, Claudia Kishi. Ding sits down with some of the country's most influential Asian writers, artists and media executives to discuss the impact the fictional 13 year-old Japanese-American girl had in their lives.
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40min
July 31, 2020 The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead forces us to look through his magnifying glass disguised as his Pulitzer Prize winning novel 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒍 𝑩𝒐𝒚𝒔. His book demands us to wrestle with America's past, present, and our place in the future. Set in the 1960s, Jim Crow serves as the backdrop to trauma, police brutality, and an unjust system through the eyes of eighteen-year-old Elwood Curtis. Ripped-from-the-headlines, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒍 𝑩𝒐𝒚𝒔 serves as a memorial to the children who endured barbaric treatment at the Dozier School for Boys for 111 years.
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1h 8min

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How many episodes does Vulgar Geniuses have?

The podcast currently has 137 episodes available.