Episode 154: Rachel Edelman
09/25/24 • 87 min
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In the opening poem of Rachel Edelman’s debut collection, Dear Memphis, the speaker returns to their home city after a long time away, traversing a landscape that is both familiar and foreign, a place to which she belongs but also doesn’t. Over the course of the collection, Edelman asks questions about heritage and inheritance; about exile, diaspora, and migration; about home; about marginalization and privilege, oppression and complicity. In our conversation, we talked about acts of care, the importance of self-criticality, what poems do, and the necessary and the possible. Then for the second segment, we talked about corresponding via hand-written letters.
(Recorded June 28, 2024)
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Show Notes:- Rachel Edelman
- Purchase Dear Memphis: Open Books (Seattle, WA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
- Jacob Lawrence - The Migration Series
- Morgan Parker - Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night
- Alan Kurdi (The boy on the beach)
- emet ezell
- Rachel Edelman & emet ezell - “The Correspondent’s Cheeks Are as a Bed of Spices”
- James Merrill - “Lost in Translation”
- AGNI 99
- Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
- Music: Podington Bear
- Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
In the opening poem of Rachel Edelman’s debut collection, Dear Memphis, the speaker returns to their home city after a long time away, traversing a landscape that is both familiar and foreign, a place to which she belongs but also doesn’t. Over the course of the collection, Edelman asks questions about heritage and inheritance; about exile, diaspora, and migration; about home; about marginalization and privilege, oppression and complicity. In our conversation, we talked about acts of care, the importance of self-criticality, what poems do, and the necessary and the possible. Then for the second segment, we talked about corresponding via hand-written letters.
(Recorded June 28, 2024)
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Show Notes:- Rachel Edelman
- Purchase Dear Memphis: Open Books (Seattle, WA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
- Jacob Lawrence - The Migration Series
- Morgan Parker - Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night
- Alan Kurdi (The boy on the beach)
- emet ezell
- Rachel Edelman & emet ezell - “The Correspondent’s Cheeks Are as a Bed of Spices”
- James Merrill - “Lost in Translation”
- AGNI 99
- Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
- Music: Podington Bear
- Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
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Episode 153: Jennifer Baker
Writer, editor, and podcaster Jennifer Baker’s debut YA novel, Forgive Me Not, imagines a near-future America in which the juvenile criminal justice system has been “reformed” to allow young people to undergo grueling Trials instead of incarceration. It’s an incisive and powerful story about carceral justice, as well as a moving coming-of-age and family story. In our conversation we talked about writing about serious topics for younger readers, how she approached writing her characters, and why it was important for her to focus on systems rather than individual innocence or guilt. Then for the second segment we talked about finding inspiration in other art forms.
(Recorded April 3, 2024.)
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Show Notes:- Jennifer Baker
- Purchase Forgive Me Not: Kew & Willow Books (Kew Gardens, NY) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
- Minorities in Publishing podcast
- Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - Chain-Gang All-Stars
- Kalief Browder
- Lionel Tate
- Squid Game
- Annie Proulx - “Brokeback Mountain” (short story)
- Brokeback Mountain (film)
- Rachel Eliza Griffiths
- Nicholas Nichols
- Titus Kaphar
- Kelsey Norris - House Gone Quiet
- Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
- Music: Podington Bear
- Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
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Episode 155: Sarah Gailey
Writer Sarah Gailey returns to the show for a discussion about their new novella, Have You Eaten? This serialized story follows four young queer characters as they traverse an America in the process of collapse, taking care of each other along the way. In our conversation, Sarah and I talked about experimentation in fiction, vine-ripened tomatoes, cooking as an act of care, and what apocalypse means. Then for the second segment, we talked about why we re-recorded the second segment, sin-flattening and high-control groups, the necessity of interpersonal repair.
(Episode recorded September 27, 2024 and September 30, 2024)
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Show Notes:- Sarah Gailey
- Purchase Have You Eaten? (e-book): Kobo | Apple Books | Amazon
- Sarah Gailey - “STET”
- Keep the Channel Open - Episode 109: Sarah Gailey (When We Were Magic)
- Sarah Gailey - “Stone Soup #24: Mending Sauce”
- Sarah Gailey - “Pantry Cookies”
- Sabrina Imbler - How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
- Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
- Music: Podington Bear
- Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
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