In this episode Tayler sits down with Dr. Dolly Chugh to discuss her book, A MORE JUST FUTURE. Dr. Dolly Chugh shows us how we can strengthen our resolve when having difficult conversations about racism in this country, and how we can sit with the reality of America’s greatness and treachery. Book Mentioned: A More […]
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Queenie: Godmother of Harlem by Elizabeth Colomba and Aurélie is a bio-graphic novel following the life of Stephanie St. Clair. A woman, who during the time of New York’s mob scene, ran Harlem through her creation of the underground numbers racket. We learn of Queenie’s origins from Martinique through to her control and protection of
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Summary Set in New York during the AIDS crisis, Carol Rifka Brunt’s debut novel Tell the Wolves I’m Home is a stunning and raw story of loneliness, longing, and the multifaceted healing power of love. When teenage June Elbus’ beloved uncle, Finn, dies of a mysterious illness, June must sift through her heartbreak and confusion.
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Ashley interviews V, formerly Eve Ensler, about her book, “Reckoning”. The conversation includes asking V about how she has grown as a storyteller, how do we address one another for progress, her thoughts on content warnings, and how has feminism changed since she wrote “The Vagina Monologues”. Book content and conversation warning: rape, sexual abuse,
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Jordy sits down with the hosts of Page Rage, Kat and Ash, to discuss the literary fiction novel, HESTER by Laurie Lico Albanese. Hester follows the life of Isobel, a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets as she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s. The events described in the book are inspired by
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This episode starts off with a review of IDA IN THE MIDDLE by Nora Lester Murad. This book follows Ida, a Palestinian-American girl, as she eats a magic olive that takes her to the life she might have had in her parents’ village near Jerusalem. In the second segment, Niba sits down with Liz Weinberg.
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Is anyone else excited about the television adaptation of Octavia E Butler’s KINDRED? In this episode Alana and Ashley sit down to discuss this Feminist Book Club Favorite. In the discussion they talk about interracial marriage and their thoughts about the Hulu/FX adaptation before they tune in. Sorry, sorry sorry: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Sorry-Sorry-Sorry/Marjorie-Ingall/9781982163495?ut[%E2%80%A6]isplay_ad&utm_content=&utm_campaign=sorry_sorry_sorry_ad Support our hosts &
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I’ve always said that in another timeline, I’d be a crisis PR executive. I’m fascinated by public apologies and how deeply terrible the majority of them are. We’ve witness bad apologies from Will Smith to James Charles to… some of our competitors *cough*… and honestly? I love dissecting them, imagining what they could’ve said differently,
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There just aren’t enough books about friendship, you know? For many of us, our friendships are some of the most important relationships we’ll ever have, and they deserve to be celebrated and represented in the books we read. In this segment Sally shares five of her favorite books about friendship. In the second segment, Jen
Background The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs was our book of the month for November 2022. It is the product of years of in-depth research and determination to document these lives that have been often overlooked in American
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The Opposite of Loneliness collects the essays and short stories of Marina Keegan, writer, journalist, and playwright, who attended Yale back in the early 2010s. Keegan was an avid writer and was set to work at The New Yorker after she graduated from college. Her future was bright with the promise of published works in
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Neda Toloui-Semnani has had anything but a normal life Neda’s parents, Farahnaz Ebrahimi and Faramarz Toloui-Semnani, were vocal and enraged activists fighting to instill a revolution in Iran and shift the power back to the people rather than a monarchy under the Shah. Their work was primarily done in the United States, but they made
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Our fiction book of the month is GODS OF JADE AND SHADOW by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and our non-fiction book of the month is FROM HERE TO ETERNITY: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
If you've already read these picks, have no fear! We have brought in other suggested titles including Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel, Thistlefoot by Gennarose Nethercott, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters by Nikkita Gill, and Ask Baba Yaga: Otherwordly Advice for Everyday Troubles by Taisia Kitaiskaia.
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