I'm Brian Lerner on WNBC and we continue now with our membership drive Culture Guide where

we end the show each day with some pointers to fall season standouts and today we're

so happy to be joined by all of it producer Jordan Lough.

She runs the book club get lit with all of it you know and she's here with some new

books mostly fiction to look for hey Jordan.

Hey Brian so thrilled to be on thanks for having me.

So you all read the book for your October get lit selection yellow face you want to just

very briefly remind people what that was and why you picked it.

Sure so yellow face by RF Kwong is a novel about a white author who is not having a whole

lot of success until she steals the manuscript of her dead friend who happens to be Chinese

American and passes it off as her own so it's something that really gets into questions

around cultural appropriation who gets to write what I think big stories that are top

of mind for writers these days you might remember the piece bad art friend that kind of got

into these thorny questions and RF Kwong is really known for writing fantasy she wrote

the poppy war series she wrote a great fantasy novel called babble this was her first delve

into realistic fiction so we were thrilled to have her on to talk about that and we'll

be airing the highlights from that event on our show on all of it on November 6th at

1 p.m.

Cool and what's next for get lit.

This month we are thrilled to be reading Rouge by Mona Awad it is a novel that's sort of

like a modern fairy tale Mona Awad is very good at that kind of mystical storytelling this

one follows a woman named bell who is obsessed with skin care I would say unhealthy so her

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