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Ep. 105 | Reading Trans Women Mar 10, 2021

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In this week’s episode, Kendra, Jaclyn, and our special guest Rosemary Ketchum talk about books written by trans women and femmes.

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A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett

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About Our Guest

Rosemary Ketchum is a member of the City Council of Wheeling, West Virginia representing Ward 3. Ketchum serves as the Chief Operations Officer of the holistic youth wellness coalition, Edible Mountain. She is also on the board of several organizations including the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. Ketchum has been a returning guest on MSNBC and has been profiled by several outlets including The Today Show, Time Magazine, CBS, and CNN for her work in community organizing and politics.

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Interview with Patricia Engel Mar 03, 2021

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Kendra chats with Patricia Engel, the author of Infinite Country, which is out now from Avid Reader Press.

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Infinite Country by Patricia Engel

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Patricia Engel is the author of The Veins of the Ocean, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris, winner of the International Latino Book Award; and Vida, a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway and Young Lions Fiction Awards, New York Times Notable Book, and winner of Colombia’s national book award, the Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her stories appear in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere. Born to Colombian parents, Patricia teaches creative writing at the University of Miami.

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Interview with Jenny Offill Feb 24, 2021

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Kendra chats with Jenny Offill, the author of Weather, which is out now in paperback from Vintage.

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Weather by Jenny Offill

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Jenny Offill is the author of the novels Last Things (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the L.A. Times First Book Award); Dept. of Speculation, which was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Pen Faulkner Award and the International Dublin Award; and most recently Weather, an instant New York Times Bestseller. She lives in upstate New York and teaches at Syracuse University and in the low residency program at Queens University.

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Ep. 104 | You Should See Me in a Crown and Take a Hint, Dani Brown Feb 17, 2021

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In this week’s episode, Kendra and Sachi discuss our two discussion books You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson and Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert. And our special guests Evelyn Bradley and Mérinda Dutton share books around the theme Black Joy.

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There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker

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Homeland Calling: Words from a New Generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voices. Homeland Calling edited by Ellen van Neerven

About Our Guests

Evelyn Bradley lives in PEI, Canada with her wife, Vanessa. She is a diversity and inclusion consultant through her firm 'Bradley Consulting'. When not consulting, she spends a good amount of time plotting around her Queer cottagecore lifestyle; thinking up what bow tie to craft next; and cooking up well-plated meals with Vanessa. She is a spoken word poet and avid book lover. Follow her and her wife @gayfromAway on Instagram.

MERINDA DUTTON is a proud Gumbaynggirr and Barkindji woman from the rural community of Grafton, NSW. Merinda developed a strong passion for law and social justice during her early teenage years. During her first year at UNSW, studying for a Bachelor of Jurisprudence/Bachelor of Laws double degree, Merinda was awarded the Landon-Smith Family Scholarship. The following year, she became a recipient of the Paul Doneley Memorial Scholarship, set up to support First Nations Australians undertaking law studies at the University. She undertook student internships at Allens, the Office of the Registrar of the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, and the Native Title Service Provider for Aboriginal Traditional Owners (NTSCORP) to supplement her scholarship income. Merinda graduated in 2013 and is an Acting Senior Solicitor at the Civil Law Service for Aboriginal Communities at Legal Aid NSW. Based in Lismore, she joined the organisation in 2014 and delivers advice and casework assistance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in remote and regional communities throughout NSW, as well as to First Nations women in custody. Merinda was named the Attorney-General Department’s 2019 National Indigenous Legal Professional of the Year at the National Indigenous Legal Conference in Darwin. She co-founded Blackfulla Book Club with Teela Reid in April 2020.

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Interview with Emma Copley Eisenberg Feb 10, 2021

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In this episode, Kendra chats with Emma Copley Eisenberg, the author of The Third Rainbow Girl, which is out now from Hachette.

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Black in Appalachia
“Fact Checking Is the Core of Nonfiction Writing. Why Do So Many Publishers Refuse to Do It?” (Esquire)
“The Tale of Queer Appalachia: A popular Instagram account raises funds for LGBTQ people in Appalachia. But does the money really go where it’s supposed to?” (Washington Post Magazine)
“I was an AmeriCorps Member in West Virginia: The Benefits and Limitations of National Service” (TIME)
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The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg

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Author Bio

Emma Copley Eisenberg’s fiction and nonfiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, The New York Times, Granta, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Tin House, Guernica, The New Republic, The Washington Post Magazine, Esquire and others. She is the author of The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia, a New York Times Notable Book of 2020 and a novel and story collection forthcoming from Hogarth/Penguin Random House. She lives in Philadelphia, where she directs Blue Stoop, a hub for the literary arts.

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Ep. 103 | Black Joy Feb 03, 2021

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In this week’s episode, Kendra, Sachi, and our special guest Cindy talk about books around the theme Black Joy.

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About Our Guest

Cindy Allman is a Caribbean Girl Reading the World. A Jamaican living in Trinidad & Tobago, she is a top Goodreads reviewer and hopes to use her platform to encourage you to Read, Read More, Read Widely and Read Caribbean. Follow her at www.bookofcinz.com or @bookofcinz on Twitter and Instagram.

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Ep. 102 | Most Anticipated Reads of 2021 Pt. 1 Jan 27, 2021

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Kendra and Joce talk about their most anticipated books for the first half of 2021.

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Bride of the Sea by Eman Quotah(Tin House, Jan. 21st)
Kink: Stories edited by R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell (Simon & Schuster, Feb. 9th)
The Memory Theater by Karin Tidbeck (Pantheon, Feb. 16th)
Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert (Avon, March 9th)
I’m Waiting for You and Other Stories by Bo-Young Kim, Translated by Sophie Bowman (HarperVoyager, April 6th)
Touring the Land of the Dead by Maki Kashimada, Translated by Harydn Trowell (Europa, April 6th)
White Magic by Elissa Washuta (Tin House, April 27th)
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (Feiwel and Friends, June 1st)

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Interview with R.F. Kuang Jan 20, 2021

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To kick off our 2021 season, Kendra chats with R.F. Kuang, the author of The Poppy War, The Dragon Republic, and The Burning God, which are all out now from HarperVoyager.

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Interview with Lyssa Kay Adams Dec 16, 2020

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In this week’s episode, Kendra and Joce chat with Lyssa Kay Adams, the author of The Bromance Book Club series. (Note: While we enjoyed this series, the title third book includes ableist language. The title has very little to do with the content, but we just wanted to give you a heads up.)

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We are two cousins from opposite ends of the globe who have way too many opinions about figure skating! So we decided to record ourselves talking about anything and everything that has recently gone down in the skating world.

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Lyssa Kay Adams read her first romance novel in eighth grade after swiping one from her grandmother’s book shelf and was hooked forever. After a nearly 20-year career as a journalist, her dreams of writing and publishing her own HEAs came true in 2015 with the release of her first novel, Seventh Inning Heat, followed by the RITA-nominated novella, Wild in Rio. Today, she writes full-time from her home in Michigan with a pesky, fluffy K9 assistant named Domino who spends most of his day snoring on her desk (that is, when he’s not burying things around the house).

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