Reading Recommendations
Sentimental Garbage
Justice for Dumb Women
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🗓️ 5 June 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
No new episode this week, but here are some fiction recommendations that you might be interested in given the current political climate:
Heads Of The Coloured People - Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Kindred - Octavia E Butler
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
Nudibranch - Irenosen Okojie
Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid
Property - Valerie Martin
The Wedding Date - Jasmine Guillory
Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo
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| 0:20.0 | Hi everyone. There's no new episode this week but while I'm here I'd like to recommend |
| 0:26.3 | some of the fiction I've been thinking about and taking back down from my book |
| 0:29.6 | trials right now because there's a lot going on and like a lot of other white people I'm |
| 0:34.4 | trying to find ways to be helpful to the Black Lives Matter movement without |
| 0:38.0 | necessarily sucking the air out of the room. So ultimately I don't know what it's like to experience racism. I don't always like to live in America. I don't want to like to exist without the many many privileges I do as a white woman. But I do know good fiction and a lot of you have taken my |
| 0:55.1 | recommendations in the past so I thought you might like to take them now. I |
| 0:59.2 | think that fiction can sometimes be unfairly classed as being an escapist activity and I |
| 1:05.2 | obviously just don't agree with that I just think that when you read a piece of |
| 1:09.2 | fiction written by someone you aren't just getting the facts of their existence but you're getting the entire |
| 1:15.2 | inner walls of their imagination and not just how they see the world but how they see the world |
| 1:21.2 | like filtered through a certain genre or filtered through a certain idea and I think that can be just so much more illuminating than facts sometimes for me. |
| 1:31.0 | So I thought I just went to a few recommendations. All right so |
| 1:34.5 | heads of the colored people is a short story collection by Nefissa Thompson |
| 1:38.0 | Spires. It came out I think two years ago and it is so unapologetically weird and it focuses on this cast of black |
| 1:47.0 | characters all living in America. Some of them are sort of working in academia, |
| 1:53.0 | of fans of anime, but they're all sort of threaded |
| 1:58.0 | together by their experiences of race. |
| 2:00.3 | It's such a funny and unusual and in many places devastating book. |
| 2:07.0 | There's one short story that I'm thinking about in particular that is right at the beginning of the collection. |
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