Episode 4: “Swing Time”
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12/13/16 • 91 min
Heads up: The word “bougie” comes up a lot in this episode. This month, we discuss British author Zadie Smith’s fifth release — Swing Time — complain about Audible and somehow finish up with an analysis of black female storylines in Disney movies.
Have you read Swing Time? Got a book you think we should check out? Tweet us at @blackchicklit.
Links:
- “Know Thyself? ‘Swing Time’ Says It’s Complicated,” NPR
- “Zadie Smith’s ‘Swing Time’ Explores Friends’ Diverging Paths,” The New York Times
- “Zadie Smith has another hit with ‘Swing Time’,” USA Today
Books mentioned in this episode:
- The Sellout, by Paul Beatty
- Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book 1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- It: A Novel, by Stephen King
Heads up: The word “bougie” comes up a lot in this episode. This month, we discuss British author Zadie Smith’s fifth release — Swing Time — complain about Audible and somehow finish up with an analysis of black female storylines in Disney movies.
Have you read Swing Time? Got a book you think we should check out? Tweet us at @blackchicklit.
Links:
- “Know Thyself? ‘Swing Time’ Says It’s Complicated,” NPR
- “Zadie Smith’s ‘Swing Time’ Explores Friends’ Diverging Paths,” The New York Times
- “Zadie Smith has another hit with ‘Swing Time’,” USA Today
Books mentioned in this episode:
- The Sellout, by Paul Beatty
- Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book 1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- It: A Novel, by Stephen King
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Episode 3: “We Love You, Charlie Freeman”
We are oh-for-two on knowing what it is we’re actually reading. This episode, we talk Kaitlyn Greenridge’s We Love You, Charlie Freeman, an eerie and uncomfortable examination of race, communication and family. Tune in for anxiety attacks, asshole chimpanzees and, as always, us mispronouncing the names of all your favs.
Have you read We Love You, Charlie Freeman? Got a book you think we should check out? Tweet us at @blackchicklit.
Links:
Books mentioned in this episode:
- The Sellout, by Paul Beatty
- Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
- The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Ken Liu
- Swing Time, by Zadie Smith
Next Episode
Episode 5: Bye, 2016
No specific book this month. To celebrate the new year, we look back on some of the titles that helped us survive the dumpster fire that is 2016. Mentioned titles include The Turner House by Angela Flournoy, An Extraordinary Union by Aylssa Cole and Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.
We hope you have an awesome and safe New Year’s Eve, and especially hope you’ll join us for another year of books in 2017. We’re kicking off January by reading an urban lit title, This Could Be Us But You Playin’ by Cachet.
Thanks for all your support and we’ll see you next year!
(Correction: At 15:03 Danielle says Harlan Ellison when she means Ralph Ellison. She’s aware of this and hopes you don’t judge her knowledge of literature based on this slip. Please feel free to judge her public speaking skills, though. They a mess.)
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