Nichole Perkins, SOMETIMES I TRIP ON HOW HAPPY WE COULD BE
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Writer and host of the podcast This is Good For You, Nichole Perkins, joins Zibby to talk about her memoir in essays, Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be. The two talk about the historic lack of Black romantic leads in books, movies, and TV, the experiences that shaped Nichole’s perception of love and relationships, and how the pandemic inspired her to pursue her passions just for the thrill of it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
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| 0:32.3 | And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids. |
| 0:36.9 | Hi. |
| 0:37.4 | Hi. Hi. |
| 0:37.8 | Hello. |
| 0:38.4 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:40.9 | Nicole Perkins is the author of Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be. |
| 0:44.8 | She's a writer from Nashville, Tennessee, who examines the intersections of pop culture, race, |
| 0:49.7 | sex, gender, and relationships. |
| 0:51.4 | Nicole is a 2017 Audra Lord Fellow at the inaugural Jack Jones Literary |
| 0:55.9 | Arts Retreat and a 2017 BuzzFeed Emerging Writers Fellow. She's also a 2016 Callaloo Creative |
| 1:02.8 | Writing Fellow for Poetry. She hosts This Is Good for You, a podcast that highlights the |
| 1:07.0 | pleasures of life. She formerly co-hosted Thirst Aid Kit, a podcast about pop culture and |
| 1:12.9 | desire with Bim Ada One Me, a producer at This American Life, and was also a co-host of the Waves |
| 1:20.1 | podcast at Slate, which looked at news and culture through a feminist lens. Her first collection of |
| 1:24.9 | poetry, Lilith, but Dark, was published by Publishing Genius in July |
| 1:29.0 | 2018. Welcome, Nicole. Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books |
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