Late Night Lit: Deesha Philyaw & Todd Doughty
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.5 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode of Late Night Lit, Late Night supervising producer Sarah Jenks-Daly speaks with Deesha Philyaw, author of the new novel "The Secret Lives of Church Ladies."
Then, she speaks with Todd Doughty, senior v-p and deputy publisher at Doubleday.
Plus, hear some book recommendations from members of the Late Night staff.
Mentioned in this episode:
"The Secret Lives of Church Ladies" by Deesha Philyaw
"The Prophets" by Robert Jones, Jr.
"Milk Blood Heat" by Dantiel W. Moniz
"A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara
"The Testaments" by Margaret Atwood
"Family of Origin" by CJ Hauser
"Little Pieces of Hope" by Todd Doughty
"The Pelican Brief" by John Grisham
"Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel" by Louise Penny
"Bath Haus" by P.J. Vernon
"Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
"The Years of Lyndon Johnson" by Robert Caro
"The End of October" by Lawrence Wright
"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, it's your girl, Kiki Palmer. |
| 0:02.0 | I'm an actress, singer, and entrepreneur. |
| 0:04.0 | On my new podcast, Baby This is Kiki Palmer. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm asking friends, family, and experts |
| 0:08.0 | the questions that are in my head. |
| 0:10.0 | Like, it's only fans only bad. |
| 0:12.0 | Where did memes come from? |
| 0:13.0 | And where's Tom from, MySpace? |
| 0:15.0 | Listen to Baby This is Kiki Palmer |
| 0:17.0 | on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:25.0 | Hey everyone, Seth Meyers here. |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome to another edition of our podcast series |
| 0:28.0 | Late Night Lit, where we shine a spotlight |
| 0:30.0 | on some of our favorite voices in the world of literature. |
| 0:32.0 | Now I'm going to turn things once again |
| 0:34.0 | over to one of our late night producers, Sarah Jank-Staley. |
| 0:37.0 | Take it away, Sarah. |
| 0:52.0 | Hi everyone, I'm Sarah Jank-Staley |
| 0:54.0 | and welcome back to Late Night Lit. |
| 0:56.0 | This month we are so fortunate to speak |
| 0:58.0 | with National Book Award finalist, Disha Filia, |
| 1:00.0 | the author of the Fantastic Collection of Short Stories, |
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