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- "Now That You're Awake"
In the wake of Charlottesville, we got together with Bob Roarty and Megan Leach at Atlanta Vintage Books to talk about what to read as we're processing this weekend's events.
If you're looking for history, hope, or ideas to carry forward, we hope this episode offers you something helpful. There are a few expletives, so be careful playing it at work or around kids.
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Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Soundcloud | Stitcher | Pocket Casts | TuneIn | RSS FeedBOOKS DISCUSSED:
March by John Lewis
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Stephen Pinker
What Are People For? by Wendell Berry
Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
Resistance by Barry Lopez
The Beast Reawakens by Martin A. Lee
The Rise of Fascism by F.L. Carsten
Understanding and Dismantling Racism: The 21st Century Challenge to White America by Joseph Barndt
Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South by John Egerton
Love and Revolution: A Political Memoir: People's History of the Greensboro Massacre, Its Setting and Aftermath by Signe Waller
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For by Alice Walker"Now That You're Awake"Ian and TimDownload22 min - Chapter 7: "That Requires Life Together" - Brian BollingerBrian Bollinger takes a break from his work as Executive Director of Friends of Refugees to talk books with us. He walks us through his wide-ranging list of current and upcoming reads. Along the way, we talk about nonprofit work, Christian spirituality, and Spanish language learning.49 min
- "Now That You're Awake"In the wake of the conflict in Charlottesville, we talk with Atlanta Vintage Books staff Bob Roarty and Megan Leach about what to read for context, hope, and direction.22 min
- Chapter 6: "But Because They're Mine" - Aline Mello
Aline Mello is an editor, writer, and immigrant. She talks with us about involuntary politicization, guarding her stories, the potency of poetry, and how her reading and writing have shifted after the election.
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Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Soundcloud | Pocket Casts | RSS FeedBOOKS MENTIONED:
Mujerista Theology by Ada María Isasi-Díaz
What is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything by Rob Bell
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
WHERE ALINE IS PUBLISHED ONLINE:
In All Ways But One: An Undocumented Immigrant's American Experience
Chapter 6: "But Because They're Mine" - Aline MelloIan and TimDownload31 min - Chapter 6: "But Because They're Mine" - Aline MelloAline Mello is an editor, writer, and immigrant. She talks with us about involuntary politicization, guarding her stories, the potency of poetry, and how her reading and writing have shifted after the election.31 min
- Chapter 5: "Radical, She Said!" - Megan Leach
Anarchist, artist, and avid reader Megan Leach talks with us about why radical ideas matter, and how literature is the ideal place to encounter them. Along the way, we talk about zines, collage, abandoned places, and independent bookstores around the world.
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Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Soundcloud | Pocket Casts | RSS FeedBOOKS DISCUSSED:
My Struggle series by Karl Ove Knausgård
Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici
Destroy, She Said by Margarite Duras
Bartleby and Co by Enrique Vila-Matas
Granny Made Me an Anarchist: General Franco, the Angry Brigade, and Me by Stuart Christie
OTHER LINKS
Megan Leach's Instagram Page
AK PressChapter 5: "Radical, She Said!" - Megan LeachIan and TimDownload41 min - Chapter 4: "The Best for the Most" - Tim Isaacson
Immigration Advocate Tim Isaacson tells us how he went from working with the CDC to pastoring a church to legal advocacy for immigrants. He talks about the books that influenced him along the way, and why Evangelicals sometimes miss out on the chance to love their immigrant neighbors.
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BOOKS DISCUSSED:
The Gunslinger by Stephen King
The Earthsea Series by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Word For World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
Your Cat's Just Not That Into You: What Part of 'Meow' Don't You Understand by Richard Smith
Generous Justice by Tim Keller
Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion, and Truth in the Immigration Debate by Matt Soerens
Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Bible by M. Daniel Carroll
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory BoyleLEARN MORE ABOUT TIM:
Immigrant Hope - Atlanta
Chapter 4: "The Best for the Most" - Tim IsaacsonIan and TimDownload23 min - Chapter 4: "The Best for the Most" - Tim IsaacsonImmigration Advocate Tim Isaacson tells us how he went from working with the CDC to pastoring a church to legal advocacy for immigrants. He talks about the books that influenced him along the way, and why Evangelicals sometimes miss out on the chance to love their immigrant neighbors.23 min
- Chapter 3: "Solitude and Community" - Eric North
We crack a beer and talk about the links between solitary activities and community with rocker, reader, and runner Eric North. We also finally settle the debate over the ethics of audiobook consumption and hear a song based on a William Blake poem that Eric found in a Henry Nouwen book.
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Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Soundcloud | Pocket Casts | RSS FeedBOOKS DISCUSSED:
Blue Highways: A Journey Into America by William Least Heat-Moon
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Eat and Run by Scott Jurek and Steve Friedman
Running With the Buffaloes by Chris Lear
Are You My Mother by P.D. Eastman
¡Presente! Latin@ Immigrant Voices in the Struggle for Racial Justice / Voces Inmigranted Latin@s en la Lucha por la Justicia Racial by Cristina Tzintzún (Editor), Arnulfo Manríquez (Editor), Carlos Pérez de Alejo (Editor), Juan González (Foreword)AUTHORS MENTIONED:
Wendell Berry
Wallace Stegner
Edward Abbey
Louis L'Amour
LEARN MORE ABOUT ERIC:
Kuya on Soundcloud
instagram.com/altraericChapter 3: "Solitude and Community" - Eric NorthIan and TimDownload51 min - Chapter 2: "What We Can Be" - Francisco Dosal
Author, immigrant, and artist Francisco Dosal tells us what books inspired him to write his novel Beyond the Good & Evil. He tells us what it's like to grow up undocumented, what he wants the next generation of immigrants to know, and how the treatment of violence in The Things They Carried shaped his own writing.
Find more on Francisco here:
https://franciscodosal.com/
https://www.beyondthegoodandevil.com/
http://www.lowkiiboardco.com/Chapter 2: "What We Can Be" - Francisco DosalIan and TimDownload22 min
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We believe the question "What are you reading?" is a powerful question. It presents each of us with an opportunity to build community, share experiences, and express the things that matter to us.
On our podcast, What Are You Reading? we talk with interesting Atlantans about books. In free-flowing conversations recorded live at Atlanta Vintage Books, we find out what people from our city are reading and how those readings relate with their lives, work, and communities.