Danzy Senna Creates Worlds She Wants to See

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🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Danzy Senna has written a seriously funny and thought provoking book in Colored Television. It will make you laugh, but also make space for anger, pain and frustration as she skewers race, Hollywood, authentic voice, the publishing industry, the Kardashians, navel gazing, philosophy….you name it, there is satire in this book for everyone. Great writing and a great conversation with the author. We are also joined for our fourth writer in residence conversation with J. Ryan Stradal. He tells us why he is working so hard on the first draft of his new novel. Join us. Books mentioned in this week’s podcast: Colored Television by Danzy Senna Caucasia by Danzy Senna New People by Danzy Senna You are Free: Stories by Danzy Senna Where did you Sleep Last Night by Danzy Senna David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee Colours of the Mountain by Da Chen The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Beloved by Tony Morrison The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club by J. Ryan Stradal Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.5	Welcome back to the bookcase. It is once again the dynamic duo.
0:36.3	Not talking about Batman and Robin, but Kate Gibson and Charlie Gibson, it is the bookcase with Kate and Charlie.
0:43.1	Yes, it's not an action-filled.
0:46.1	It's not a huge action-filled duo, but we drive the bookmobile.
0:49.6	We have capes.
0:50.7	We wear reading glasses.
0:52.4	We take a while to get where we're going, but we always bring a great
0:55.4	love of literature with us. We are a dynamic duo of a kind, and hello. We have a very full show
1:02.7	for you today. Our author of the day is Dan Zena, who has written a wonderful book called
1:08.9	Colored Television. She writes it from a unique perspective
1:12.5	and we'll tell you why, first of all, we love the book itself. It is very funny. But it also has
1:18.2	what she calls the geography of her writing. And then we're also going to talk with Jay Ryan Strattel,
1:23.5	our fourth conversation with our writer in residence. He is now well into his novel. We started
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