Today on Zero to Well Red, we're talking about I Know Why the Caged Bird sings by Maya Angelou.

And this episode is sponsored by thriftbooks.com.

And you can find all kinds of editions of I Know Why the Caged Bird sings there.

I want to shout out a couple here.

The one you're going to see most often, and this is a great pick,

they've continued to use the

1971 paperback cover, which is almost like this metis-like cutout of a bird against a sunset.

That's very cool.

There's some other paperbacks you can find from the 70s I like just as well.

There's a July 1978 Bantam one that has these kind of pinkish red ribbons that's very 70s and cool.

There's a 1983 one that's kind of the same, but inverted on the other side and it's in green.

There are all kinds of additions you can check out.

There is a special edition from the Folio Society from 2001, not in stock right now, but if you save it to your list on

Thriftbooks.com, they'll send you a notification when it becomes available. Thanks to Thriftbooks.com

for sponsoring this season of Zero to Well Red. Hey folks, Rebecca here. I have some exciting news to

share. Since we launched the show, the number one listener request has been for some

kind of book club or community reading experience. We've been thinking about it and talking about

what that might look like and how it could be uniquely zero to well read. You might have even

heard us working through some of the elements of it on a recent mailbag episode. And so today we are

delighted to announce the launch of zero to well-read guided read-alongs.

We're starting with The Odyssey for an episode that will land July 7th. In the run-up, we're going

to provide read-along participants with an exclusive mini episode about how to prepare for the read,

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