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  • 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 ๐‘ณ๐’๐’—๐’†๐’„๐’“๐’‚๐’‡๐’• ๐‘ช๐’๐’–๐’๐’•๐’“๐’š. 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.
    54 min
  • A Good Family
    AH Kim's novel ๐‘จ ๐‘ฎ๐’๐’๐’… ๐‘ญ๐’‚๐’Ž๐’Š๐’๐’š 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!
    54 min
  • 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, ๐Ÿ…ƒ๐Ÿ„ท๐Ÿ„ด ๐Ÿ„ฒ๐Ÿ„ป๐Ÿ„ฐ๐Ÿ…„๐Ÿ„ณ๐Ÿ„ธ๐Ÿ„ฐ ๐Ÿ„บ๐Ÿ„ธ๐Ÿ…‚๐Ÿ„ท๐Ÿ„ธ ๐Ÿ„ฒ๐Ÿ„ป๐Ÿ…„๐Ÿ„ฑ. 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.
    40 min
  • The Nickel Boys

    Colson Whitehead forces us to look through his magnifying glass disguised as his Pulitzer Prize winning novel ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ต๐’Š๐’„๐’Œ๐’†๐’ ๐‘ฉ๐’๐’š๐’”. 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, ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ต๐’Š๐’„๐’Œ๐’†๐’ ๐‘ฉ๐’๐’š๐’” serves as a memorial to the children who endured barbaric treatment at the Dozier School for Boys for 111 years.ย 

    1 hr 8 min
  • SJ Sindu - Marriage of a Thousand Lies
    On this very special episode of FORKS X FANGS we interview SJ Sindu, author of the novel ๐‘ด๐’‚๐’“๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’† ๐’๐’‡ ๐’‚ ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’๐’–๐’”๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐‘ณ๐’Š๐’†๐’”. We talk with her about everything under the sun from her novel and upcoming works, celebrating Pride Month, and her favorite Sri Lankan dish that instantly transports her home.
    1 hr 6 min
  • Brown & Black Series: Interview with Jonathan "Fro" Perry
    8 minutes and 46 seconds. That is how long Officer Derek Chauvin held his knee to George Floyd's neck.ย 
    No one could have imagined the level of outrage that sparked a revolution when George Floyd, a man from Minneapolis, Minnesota, was murdered by police during Memorial Day Weekend. As the world took to the streets in a united front for a call for justice, others found themselves protesting in other ways.
    We speak to Jonathan "Fro" Perry, a graffiti artist based in Bremerton, Washington who paid tribute to George Floyd and many others that died at the hands of police. ย He speaks on why he painted the mural, his experiences with the police, and what it is to be a biracial man in America.
    50 min
  • I Am Not Your Negro
    In 2016 filmmaker Raol Peck released the Oscar nominated documentary ๐‘ฐ ๐‘จ๐’Ž ๐‘ต๐’๐’• ๐’€๐’๐’–๐’“ ๐‘ต๐’†๐’ˆ๐’“๐’ about James Baldwin, a black gay writer and activist who explored the topics of race, sexuality, and class during the Civil Rights Movement. Peck's film reveals to the world the unfinished manuscript from Baldwin called ๐‘น๐’†๐’Ž๐’†๐’Ž๐’ƒ๐’†๐’“ ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’Š๐’” ๐‘ฏ๐’๐’–๐’”๐’† in which he writes about his friends and civil rights activists, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. and their assassinations. Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson as the voice of Baldwin, this film serves as an alarm as we find our country fighting the same battles for freedom and justice today.
    48 min
  • Gods of Jade and Shadow
    Grab a seat and a shot of the finest quarantine tequila you can find. The Vulgar Geniuses get nice and tipsy as they discuss the novel ๐‘ฎ๐’๐’…๐’” ๐’๐’‡ ๐‘ฑ๐’‚๐’…๐’† & ๐‘บ๐’‰๐’‚๐’…๐’๐’˜ by Silvia Morena-Garcia. The God of Death is awaken when an 18 year old girl opens a box where his bones have been locked away for years. Now these two must journey through Mexico to find his missing body parts to regain his godly form before he dies and his evil twin brother becomes the god of the underworld.
    48 min
  • Brown & Black Series: Asians in Lit

    On this episode of Forks X Fangs, we introduce a new segment called Brown & Black where we tackle issues regarding marginalized groups in literature. ย Today I get to interview my partner in crime, Dennie Wang. In honor of Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month, we take a look at the importance of Asians seeing theirselves represented in literature. ย 

    51 min
  • The Girl With All The Gifts
    On this special edition episode of FORKS X FANGS we discuss the film ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ฎ๐’Š๐’“๐’ ๐‘พ๐’Š๐’•๐’‰ ๐‘จ๐’๐’ ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ฎ๐’Š๐’‡๐’•๐’”. This film stars Sennia Nenua as Melanie, a gifted half human/half zombie child that sets on a journey to save humanity from apocalyptic destruction. The screenplay was written by M.R. Carey who also wrote the novel of the same name as the film.
    23 min

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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.