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  • Sabrina & Corina

    Kali Fajardo-Anstine's carefully and wonderfully crafted work is one of our generations most important works to read. ย Her novel ๐‘บ๐’‚๐’ƒ๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’‚ & ๐‘ช๐’๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’‚ deals with the struggles of love and death, and how both of those factors forever shaped the lives of the characters in her stories. Based in Denver, Colorado we follow the people in 11 linked short stories that focus on the lives of Indigenous and Latinx women. On this episode of FORKS X FANGS we discuss our favorite works and the importance of reading about the lives of the forgotten ones.ย 

    1 hr
  • Lovecraft Country Ep. 7 & 8
    We're back with another installment of Tiny Bites featuring HBO's ๐‘ณ๐’๐’—๐’†๐’„๐’“๐’‚๐’‡๐’• ๐‘ช๐’๐’–๐’๐’•๐’“๐’š! Hippolyta gets sucked into a portal triggered by a time machine, and Dee is chased down by demon twins after being cursed by two white police officers.
    48 min
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God

    First thing first! Black women y'all did that! Congratulations to Kamala Harris, the 46th Vice President of the United States of America!!!

    On this episode of FORKS X FANGS we discuss Veronica's birthday pick, ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’†๐’Š๐’“ ๐‘ฌ๐’š๐’†๐’” ๐‘พ๐’†๐’“๐’† ๐‘พ๐’‚๐’•๐’„๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐‘ฎ๐’๐’… by Zora Neale Hurston. We dive deep into the life of Zora and Janie, as well as Veronica's obsession with both of those women, tattoos, and Florida History.ย 

    1 hr 22 min
  • Lovecraft Country Ep. 5 & 6

    More answers are met with more questions for HBO's ๐‘ณ๐’๐’—๐’†๐’„๐’“๐’‚๐’‡๐’• ๐‘ช๐’๐’–๐’๐’•๐’“๐’š. This week on this special edition of Tiny Bites, it seems as Franz Kafka himself must have really like this show and wanted to pay tribute to Misha Green. We discover that Ruby wakes up in the body of a white woman, ย Montrose seeks solace in the arms of an secret lover, and Atticus falls in love with a nine-tailed magical creature who may or may not be trying to kill him.ย 

    53 min
  • Such A Fun Age
    The debut novel from writer Kiley Reid has proven to find a special place among the newest contemporaries. ๐‘บ๐’–๐’„๐’‰ ๐‘จ ๐‘ญ๐’–๐’ ๐‘จ๐’ˆ๐’† 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.
    1 hr 7 min
  • 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 ๐‘ญ๐’“๐’๐’๐’• ๐‘ซ๐’†๐’”๐’Œ 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. ย 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. ย Did we mention that Mia is only 10 years old?! This novel grapples with ย themes such as racism and immigration, making this story a teaching lesson for adults as well.
    44 min
  • Michelle Flores
    In her chapbook ๐‘ช๐’–๐’†๐’๐’•๐’๐’” ๐‘ญ๐’“๐’๐’Ž ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐‘บ๐’˜๐’‚๐’Ž๐’‘, ย 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 ๐‘ช๐’‚๐’“๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ฉ๐’‚๐’•.
    58 min
  • Cinelle Barnes - Monsoon Mansion
    Filipina author, Cinelle Barnes, sits down with us to talk about her memoir ๐‘ด๐’๐’๐’”๐’๐’๐’ ๐‘ด๐’‚๐’๐’”๐’Š๐’๐’. 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, ๐‘จ ๐‘ด๐’†๐’‚๐’”๐’–๐’“๐’† ๐’๐’‡ ๐‘ฉ๐’†๐’๐’๐’๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ: ๐‘พ๐’“๐’Š๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’” ๐’๐’‡ ๐‘ช๐’๐’๐’๐’“ ๐’๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ต๐’†๐’˜ ๐‘จ๐’Ž๐’†๐’“๐’Š๐’„๐’‚๐’ ๐‘บ๐’๐’–๐’•๐’‰, that chronicles Southern life through the scope of race, gender, sexuality, and more.
    1 hr 30 min
  • Lovecraft Country Ep. 3 & 4

    We are back with another special edition of Tiny Bites as we recap episodes 3 & 4 of HBO's ๐‘ณ๐’๐’—๐’†๐’„๐’“๐’‚๐’‡๐’• ๐‘ช๐’๐’–๐’๐’•๐’“๐’š. 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.

    42 min
  • The Hole
    ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ฏ๐’๐’๐’† 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.
    1 hr

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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.