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Well-Read Episode #72 - Fiction by Black Authors
We're not experts on advising which books will make you antiracist (please seek those experts out!), but we can use our platform to promote the works of black authors that we've enjoyed. We're committed to reading and talking about more books by diverse authors, and we hope you'll do the same. As always, we end with what we're reading this week.
Books and other media mentioned in this episode:
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (buy from Bookshop)
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones (buy from Bookshop)
Ann’s picks:
- The Sellout by Paul Beatty (buy from Bookshop)
- Booker Prize
- The Little Rascals (film series)
- Song of the South (film)
- The Bling Ring (film)
- Janet Evanovich books
- Raymond Chandler books
- Detective by Day series by Kellye Garrett
Halle’s picks:
- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (buy from Bookshop)
- Southern Festival of Books
- Celeste Ng books
- Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones (buy from Bookshop)
- Tayari Jones books
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (releases September 8) (buy from Bookshop)
What We’re Reading This Week:
- Ann: Lorraine: The Girl Who Sang the Storm Away by Ketch Secor and Higgins Bond (buy from Bookshop)
- Old Crow Medicine Show
- This American Life (podcast)
- Drexciya (techno group)
- "The Deep" (song by clipping.)
- An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (buy from Bookshop)
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By Ann Cox and Halle Carlson
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We're not experts on advising which books will make you antiracist (please seek those experts out!), but we can use our platform to promote the works of black authors that we've enjoyed. We're committed to reading and talking about more books by diverse authors, and we hope you'll do the same. As always, we end with what we're reading this week.
Books and other media mentioned in this episode:
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (buy from Bookshop)
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones (buy from Bookshop)
Ann’s picks:
- The Sellout by Paul Beatty (buy from Bookshop)
- Booker Prize
- The Little Rascals (film series)
- Song of the South (film)
- The Bling Ring (film)
- Janet Evanovich books
- Raymond Chandler books
- Detective by Day series by Kellye Garrett
Halle’s picks:
- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (buy from Bookshop)
- Southern Festival of Books
- Celeste Ng books
- Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones (buy from Bookshop)
- Tayari Jones books
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (releases September 8) (buy from Bookshop)
What We’re Reading This Week:
- Ann: Lorraine: The Girl Who Sang the Storm Away by Ketch Secor and Higgins Bond (buy from Bookshop)
- Old Crow Medicine Show
- This American Life (podcast)
- Drexciya (techno group)
- "The Deep" (song by clipping.)
- An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (buy from Bookshop)
Well-Read on Facebook
Well-Read on Twitter
Well-Read on Bookshop
Well-Read on Instagram
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