Vulgar Geniuses

By Vulgar Geniuses

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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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
July 03, 2020 SJ Sindu - Marriage of a Thousand Lies
On this very special episode of FORKS X FANGS we interview SJ Sindu, author of the novel 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒆𝒔. 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.
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1h 6min
June 19, 2020 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.
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. He speaks on why he painted the mural, his experiences with the police, and what it is to be a biracial man in America.
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50min
June 05, 2020 I Am Not Your Negro
In 2016 filmmaker Raol Peck released the Oscar nominated documentary 𝑰 𝑨𝒎 𝑵𝒐𝒕 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑵𝒆𝒈𝒓𝒐 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 𝑹𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑯𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 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.
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48min
May 29, 2020 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 𝑮𝒐𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑱𝒂𝒅𝒆 & 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘 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.
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48min
May 22, 2020 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. 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.
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51min
May 15, 2020 The Girl With All The Gifts
On this special edition episode of FORKS X FANGS we discuss the film 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒊𝒓𝒍 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒊𝒇𝒕𝒔. 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.
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23min

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The podcast currently has 141 episodes available.