Episodes
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Plot Twist and Shout
S1 E4 - 7m 36s
How exactly did Bob Dylan win the Nobel Prize for literature? What are the standards that a song is considered a "great piece of literature"? What (or who) defines literature?
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A Woman's Sentence
S1 E3 - 8m 45s
From the New Women of the 1920s, to all the Single Ladies of the current millennium, feminism has endured in literature across time in ways that are not typically talked about. Check out this interesting history with Read Awakening.
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Happily Indie After
S1 E2 - 9m 55s
With the rise of e-readers, will independent bookstores become obsolete?
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Afrofuturism
S1 E1 - 6m 49s
Afrofuturism is defined as a genre at the intersection of black culture, technology, liberation, and the imagination. From the movie Black Panther to the music of Janelle Monae, Afrofuturism is on a lot of minds this year. Join host Dominique Taylor to explore the literary offerings of Afrofuturism with Rivers Solomon whose book, An Unkindness of Ghosts, you’ll want to read.
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