Down Home Nine Bar Blues | Episode 25

Fly on the Wallin with Amber and Ben

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5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We read the short story cycle, Nine Bar Blues. Giant cicadas, Beale Street Blues, and a devil at the crossroads, what else could you want from Southern fiction? This ain’t no Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, this here is Sheree’s Memphis. Other Sources: Mixtape v. Album- https://www.vice.com/en/article/rmx446/the-real-difference-between-a-mixtape-and-an-album Black Justin Bieber-https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/atlanta-justin-bieber

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sci-Fi Sci, a podcast about black science fiction fantasy and staying on the same page in this man ridge.
0:11.0	I'm one of your incredible co-host Amber Wallen.
0:14.0	I'm Ben.
0:15.0	Hi, Ben.
0:16.0	Can you believe in?
0:17.0	We are in week 25.
0:19.0	And this week we sat down to read 9 Bar Blues by Sheree Renee Thomas.
0:24.0	And we're about to get into it 25 weeks, Ben.
0:27.0	The podcast is still popping.
0:29.0	Ain't nobody been murdered yet. It's a good year.
0:32.0	It's a good year.
0:33.0	Why don't you talk a little bit about why we chose to read this book?
0:37.0	So Sheree Renee Thomas.
0:40.0	Yeah, that's her name.
0:42.0	That is her name.
0:43.0	She wrote an anthology called Dark Matter, which was one of the first anthologies that said, hey, black science fiction is something unique to say.
0:53.0	It was never supposed to be like the definitive part of black science fiction, but she's sort of a god when it comes to anthology and helping other writers like get it, you know, get it done, especially when it comes to like black science fiction and fantasy.
1:11.0	So Dark Matter is a collection of short stories.
1:13.0	Yeah, but she wrote all of them.
1:14.0	Yeah, but all of them.
1:15.0	Or she compiled this.
1:16.0	She compiled them and she got writers.
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