STORYBOUND: Nichole Perkins

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🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Nichole Perkins reads an excerpt from "Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be," backed by an original Storybound remix with Dustin O'Halloran, and sound design and arrangement by Jude Brewer. Nichole Perkins is a writer from Nashville, Tennessee, currently based in Brooklyn. Nichole is a 2017 Audre Lorde Fellow at the inaugural Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat and a 2017 BuzzFeed Emerging Writers Fellow. She is also a 2016 Callaloo Creative Writing Fellow for poetry. She has participated in the Napa Valley Writers' Conference. Her memoir "Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be" will be coming soon from Grand Central Publishing. It will cover black womanhood and sexuality, online messageboard communities, and the effects of pop culture on female desire. She currently hosts "This Is Good For You," a podcast about finding pleasure in life. Dustin O'Halloran is a pianist and composer, as well as a member of the band A Winged Victory for the Sullen with Adam Wiltzie. O'Halloran has scored films for Sofia Coppola and Drake Doremus. He won an Emmy in 2015 for his work on Amazon's "Transparent" and was nominated for an Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Critics Choice Award for his score to "Lion," written in collaboration with Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Storybound listeners. How have you been? Are you making the time to relax, to decompress, get lost? Well, we are happy to have you back. I'd like to introduce you to Nicole Perkins.
0:20.2	Nicole Perkins is a 2017 Audre Lordfellow at the inaugural Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat
0:26.1	and a 2017 BuzzFeed Emerging Writers Fellow.
0:29.7	Having previously co-hosted for Two Slate Magazine Podcasts, Thirst Aid Kit, and The Waves,
0:35.4	Nicole Perkins is the host of This Is Good for You, a podcast about
0:39.5	finding pleasure in life. She will be reading an excerpt from her upcoming memoir, Sometimes I Trip,
0:46.5	on how happy we could be, available later this summer, covering black womanhood and sexuality,
0:52.0	online message board communities, and the effects of pop culture
0:55.3	on female desire. She will be accompanied by an original Storybound remix featuring Dustin O'Halloran.
1:04.3	Hi, I'm Nicole Perkins. You're listening to Storybound. I'll be reading a chapter from my memoir.
1:11.6	Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
1:13.6	The chapter is in three parts, and it is entitled The Women.
1:22.6	Trevor, are you ready?
1:28.1	Ready.
1:30.5	It's time to seize it.
1:32.9	Yes, let's seize it.
1:34.9	Seize what exactly?
1:39.3	Seize the sale at Argos and save on thousands of products from furniture to electricals.
1:40.1	Shop now.
1:40.8	There's more.
1:41.4	Got it.
1:42.1	To Argos.
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