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Interview with Elizabeth Miki Brina May 26, 2021

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In this week’s episode, Sachi talks with Elizabeth Miki Brina, the author of Speak, Okinawa, which out now from Knopf.

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Speak, Okinawa by Elizabeth Miki Brina

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Elizabeth Miki Brina is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Bread Loaf Scholarship and a New York State Summer Writers Institute Scholarship. She currently lives and teaches in New Orleans.

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Ep. 110 | Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen & Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls May 19, 2021

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In this week’s episode, Kendra and Sachi discuss Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen and Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls. Plus, special guest T Kira Madden recommends two books by Native Hawaiian authors.

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T Kira Mahealani Madden is a lesbian APIA writer, photographer, and amateur magician living in Hudson Valley, New York. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College and an BA in design and literature from Parsons School of Design and Eugene Lang College. She is the founding Editor-in-chief of No Tokens, a magazine of literature and art, and is a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in nonfiction literature from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Tin House, DISQUIET, Summer Literary Seminars, and Yaddo, where she was selected for the 2017 Linda Collins Endowed Residency Award. She facilitates writing workshops for homeless and formerly incarcerated individuals and currently teaches in the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College. Her debut memoir, LONG LIVE THE TRIBE OF FATHERLESS GIRLS, was a New York Times Editors' Choice selection, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and a finalist for the LAMBDA Literary Award for lesbian memoir. There is no period in her name.

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Interview with Elissa Washuta May 12, 2021

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In this week’s episode, Kendra talks with Elissa Washuta the author of White Magic, which out now from Tin House

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White Magic by Elissa Washuta

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Elissa Washuta is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and a nonfiction writer. She is the author of White Magic, My Body Is a Book of Rules, and Starvation Mode. With Theresa Warburton, she is co-editor of the anthology Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers. She’s a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient, a Creative Capital awardee, and an assistant professor of creative writing at the Ohio State University.

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Ep. 109 | Pacific Islander & Pasifika Authors May 05, 2021

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In this week’s episode, Kendra, Sachi, and special guest Chloe Fergusson-Tibble share books by Pacific Islander and Pasifika authors.

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Chloe Fergusson-Tibble

Ko Te Ramaroa te maunga

Ko Whirinaki te awa

Ko Matawhao te waka

Ko Te Hikutu te hapū

Ko Ngāpuhi te iwi

Ko Chloe Fergusson-Tibble taku ingoa

Tēnā koutou! I’m Chloe, an indigenous book lover from New Zealand! My tribal affiliations connect me to some of the most beautiful parts of our land and these landmarks are outlined above in my pepeha! I am a wife, mother, and whānau lover. I am a medical student currently studying to become a doctor. I love good kai, wine, cats, books and tramping!

Books have held me tightly since I was about 11 when I would stay up late reading to myself and my younger siblings. I love a variety of genres and especially love reading books by Māori authors. I am a firm believer in equity. I am staunchly antiracist. I am pro Māori. I make no apologies for this and it show in my reviews and recommendations. Ngā mihi ki a koutou!

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Interview with Julia Turshen Apr 28, 2021

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Kendra talks with Julia Turshen the author of Simply Julia, which out now from Harper Wave.

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Simply Julia by Julia Turshen

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Julia Turshen is the bestselling author ofNow & Again(named the Best Cookbook of 2018 by Amazon), Feed the Resistance (named the Best Cookbook of 2017 by Eater), and Small Victories (named one of the Best Cookbooks of 2016 by the New York Times and NPR). Her forthcoming cookbook, Simply Julia, will be out on March 2, 2021. Julia has also coauthored numerous cookbooks and has written for The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Food & Wine, Saveur, and more. Epicurious has called her one of the 100 Greatest Home Cooks of All Time and The New York Times has described her “at the forefront of the new generation of authentic, approachable authors.” She sits on the Kitchen Cabinet Advisory Board for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and is the founder of Equity At The Table (EATT), an inclusive digital directory of women and non-binary individuals in food. She’s also the host of the podcast, Keep Calm and Cook On. Julia lives in the Hudson Valley with her wife and pets.

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Ep. 108 | Once Upon an Eid and The Girl and the Ghost Apr 21, 2021

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In this week’s episode, Kendra and Sumaiyya discuss Once Upon and Eid and The Girl and the Ghost.

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More to the Story by Hena Khan
Rumaysa by Radiya Hafiza
Same Sun Here by Silas House and Neela Vaswani
City of Ghost by Victoria Schwab
Tunnel of Bones by Victoria Schwab
Bridge of Souls by Victoria Schwab
Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed

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Interview with Quan Barry Apr 14, 2021

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Kendra talks with Quan Barry the author of We Ride Upon Sticks, which is out now in paperback from Vintage.

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We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry

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Raised in the coastal town of Danvers, Massachusetts, Quan Barry is the author of the novel She Weeps Each Time You’re Born and of four books of poetry, including the collection Water Puppets, which won the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and was a PEN Open Book finalist. She lives in Wisconsin and teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Ep. 107 | Middle Grade Magic Apr 07, 2021

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In this week’s episode, Kendra, Sumaiyya, and special guest Afoma Umesi share books around April’s theme, Middle Grade Magic.

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Afoma Umesi is a writer, editor, and the founder of the kidlit website Reading Middle Grade where she blogs about children's literature.

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Interview with Hala Alyan Mar 31, 2021

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Kendra talks with Hala Alyan the author of The Arsonists’ City, which is out now from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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Q&A with Hala Alyan about Salt Houses

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The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

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Hala Alyan is the author of the novel Salt Houses, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize, as well as the forthcoming novel The Arsonists’ City, and four award-winning collections of poetry, most recently The Twenty-Ninth Year. Her work has been published by the New Yorker, the Academy of American Poets, Lit Hub, The New York Times Book Review, and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, where she works as a clinical psychologist.

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Ep. 106 | Fairest and Detransition, Baby Mar 24, 2021

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In this week’s episode, Kendra and Jaclyn discuss Fairest and Detranstion, Baby.

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