The 3 Best Bookable Podcast Episodes
1) Cathy Park Hong & Ayad Akhtar
"Seeing characters struggle with their place in this country as part of the existential circumstance of their lives becomes a political statement" -- Ayad Akhtar
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Such an important conversation. Now that we can breathe a bit knowing that we have escaped another Trump term, we need voices like Ayad’s an...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) Kiese Laymon, Saeed Jones & Mira Jacob
"This is a transformative genre. Who you are going into it is not who you are going to be on the other side." -- Saeed Jones
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3) Alexander Chee: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
What’s in your junk drawer? For writer Alexander Chee, answering that question resulted in a critically-acclaimed collection of essays entitled How To Write An Autobiographical Novel. Alex sits down w...Show More
4) Morgan Jerkins: Wandering In Strange Lands
Have you ever signed up for one of those ancestry sites, or maybe sent in a sample of your saliva and received DNA results? Well what can those results really tell you about the people and the traditi...Show More
5) Calvin Baker: A More Perfect Reunion
Americans have been raised on a system of myths about race. We’ve invented stories to explain what we don’t understand, and it’s our belief in these often preposterous ideas that have shaped history. ...Show More
6) Nicole Dennis-Benn: Patsy
The world puts you in a box -- geography, social class, family dynamics, gender, all things you’re born into with no say in the matter. But life gets really interesting when you’re finally able to mak...Show More
7) Roxane Gay & Tracy Lynne Oliver: The Sacrifice of Darkness
Have you ever felt like you’re in a tunnel trying to dig your way out and are just getting nowhere? Like there’s not even a light at the end? In Roxane Gay and Tracy Lynne Oliver's fantastical graphic...Show More
8) Rumaan Alam: Leave the World Behind
Want to get away from it all? Maybe rent a house somewhere remote, with no access to the internet, overlooking the woods and a swimming pool? But what if that heavenly vacation goes wrong -- really wr...Show More
9) Holiday Reads: Neil Gaiman & Team Bookable!
Amanda finds out which books Neil Gaiman and Team Bookable are giving to family and friends this holiday season!
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.10) Lynn Steger Strong: Want
Time to forget the way too familiar depictions of female friendship that lean on thread-worn stereotypes: the back-stabbing competitor, the gossip, the manipulator, the superficial princess. In Want, ...Show More