STORYBOUND: Morgan Jerkins

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Jude Brewer

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4.8 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Morgan Jerkins reads an excerpt from her book "Caul Baby," backed by an original Storybound remix with French Cassettes, and sound design and arrangement by Jude Brewer. Born and raised in Southern New Jersey, and now residing in Harlem, New York, Morgan Jerkins is the New York Times Bestselling author of "This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America" and "Wandering In Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots." She holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and teaches regularly at Columbia University. Her third book "Caul Baby" was one of 2021's most anticipated books by TIME, Buzzfeed, and Oprah Magazine. French Cassettes is a harmony-driven power-pop group from San Francisco. The quartet's new LP, Rolodex, is hook-filled and rooted in pop, layered with intricate vocal harmonies and counter-harmonies, inventive percussion, and every shade of clean and fuzzy guitars stacked up like an orchestra. These uncommonly majestic, esoteric pop forms serve as the perfect delivery service for their playful and verbose lyrics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you, everyone for the season for the season four premiere last week.
0:17.2	And it was a pleasure, Chuck, but now it's time for this week's author.
0:22.9	Morgan Jerkins is a New York Times bestselling author and senior editor at Zora Magazine of Medium.
0:30.0	Jerkins' first book, This Will Be My Undoing, was praised for its brutal honesty,
0:34.7	as well as with her second book, Wondering in Strange Lands,
0:38.3	named one of the most anticipated books of the year by L. BuzzFeed Esquire,
0:44.3	Bitch Media, Good Housekeeping, Electric Literature, Parade, and Book Riot,
0:49.3	and one of Times 100 Must-read books of 2020.
1:06.0	She will be reading an excerpt from her fiction debut, Call Baby, about Layla, who desperately wants to become a mother, but each of her previous pregnancies has ended in heartbreak.
1:12.1	And so she turns to the Melanchons, an old and powerful Harlem family known for their call,
1:16.0	a precious layer of skin that is the secret source of their healing power.
1:22.5	She will be accompanied by an original Storybound remix with French cassettes.
1:26.6	Everyone, Morgan Jerkins.
1:28.8	And you're listening to Storybound Podcast.
1:32.5	I'll be reading from my forthcoming novel, Call Baby.
1:49.0	Welcome to Storybound, presented by LitHub Radio and the Podglomerate. I'm your host, Jude Brewer.
1:55.0	In just a little bit, you're going to get to hear Morgan Jerkins,
2:03.3	tell a story about a woman who has lost count of her heartbreaks with pregnancies,
2:07.3	but is now keeping this one pregnancy a secret from her community.
2:11.7	Maybe if no one but her knows, then she will meet her child.
2:20.8	It's the most wonderful time.
2:24.8	Are you a smart booker or a silly booker?
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