Late Night Lit: Jo Piazza & Christine Pride | Gillian Laub
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode of our books podcast, Late Night's Sarah Jenks-Daly speaks with Jo Piazza & Christine Pride, authors of the novel We Are Not Like Them. She also talks to photographer and filmmaker Gillian Laub about her new book Family Matters.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, Seth Meyers here. Welcome to another episode of Late Night Lit. Our podcast |
| 0:07.2 | series is celebrates books and authors we love. I'm going to turn things over to Sarah |
| 0:11.1 | Jank's daily, a supervising producer, Late Night and the host of Late Night Lit. Take it away, Sarah. |
| 0:18.5 | Hi everyone, I'm Sarah Jank's daily and welcome to Late Night Lit. This month we're featuring |
| 0:23.5 | three wonderful guests that I thoroughly enjoyed speaking to. First, Joe Piazza and Christine |
| 0:29.0 | Pride, authors of the powerful new novel we are not like them. And filmmaker and photographer, |
| 0:34.8 | Jillian Laube, who recently published a beautiful new book, Family Matters. We'll also hear |
| 0:40.0 | book recommendations from two Late Night staffers. |
| 0:42.3 | Christine Pride and Joe Piazza are our first guests this month and they are longtime publishing |
| 0:54.8 | industry veterans. Joe, a prolific and talented author and Christine, a highly sought after and |
| 1:00.7 | well respected book editor. They're also friends and they embarked upon the tall task of writing a |
| 1:06.0 | novel together. We are not like them, which is destined to be a book club favorite, is a story |
| 1:11.3 | about two childhood best friends, Jen, a white woman and Riley, a black woman, who's now adult |
| 1:17.0 | friendship drastically shifts when an unarmed black teenager is shot by a police officer in Philadelphia. |
| 1:23.2 | Christine and Joe not only reckon with difficult questions about how race can impact friendships, |
| 1:28.0 | but also touch upon themes of community, policing in America, given families and chosen families, |
| 1:34.0 | and motherhood. Now here's my conversation with Christine and Joe. |
| 1:37.3 | Hi everybody, welcome to Late Night Lit. Joining us today are two authors, Joe Piazza and Christine |
| 1:44.0 | Pride. Hi you two. Hello. Hey, how you doing? You are our first double interview and I'm very |
| 1:51.6 | excited you're both here, even though none of us are together. Together on Zoom, which is the |
| 1:55.9 | new together. Sure does. So the reason you two are on is you wrote this fantastic book. We are |
| 2:02.0 | not like them and you wrote it together and I want to talk about the book in the process, but I |
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