Fall Books 2018

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Readers are leaders! We talk with the authors of some of our favorite recent releases. Nicole Chung's memoir explores transracial adoption through her own experience finding her birth family. Imani Perry brings playwright Lorraine Hansberry's complicated life and relationships into focus in her recent biography. Finally, Glory Edim's Well-Read Black Girl started as a t-shirt, became a book club, events series, and now an edited collection.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.
0:01.6	A podcast for long-distance besties everywhere.
0:04.2	I'm Ami Natoosel and I'm Anne Friedman.
0:07.6	Hey!
0:09.2	On this week's agenda, we're talking about books,
0:12.4	books, books.
0:14.0	We chatted with some of our favorite authors,
0:17.2	people who have new stuff out right now,
0:19.3	Nicole Chung, and Moni Perry, and Glory Edim.
0:23.5	another
0:35.2	Hey, Boo-Hey. Hey, hey. I'm so excited that we're talking about books and not talking about the news. I won't lie to you.
0:52.1	I know.
0:59.1	Readers are leaders. I didn't have a clue about this. It's all related. It's all related.
1:01.1	So first up, I called a writer. I really love Nicole Chung, who I got to know when she was editing the toast.
1:05.1	I got to know her words anyway. I spoke to her for the first time for this very podcast.
1:13.1	And now these days, she's the editor-in-chief of Catapult Magazine, which is another amazing magazine. I'm sure it's no coincidence that Nicole is also involved with that.
1:17.1	Anyway, she has written a new memoir about transracial adoption and about family secrets and about identity called All You Can Ever Know.
1:26.1	Have a listen to our convo about adoption and family and her memoir.
1:36.1	Gosh, I really, I loved your book so, so much. And thank you so much for saying that.
1:43.1	I really, I really, really did. And I'm so happy you could make time to be on the podcast. I want to start by asking you to talk about the title and the origin of that phrase in your life.
1:48.1	Sure. First of all, titles are really difficult. So when I was writing the proposal, I think the title was probably the last thing I put in before we sent it out.
2:01.1	Yeah, one day, I kind of just lit upon this phrase. And the origin of it is growing up, I was told so many times, like, you know, this is all we know about your birth parents. Maybe this is all we can ever know.
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