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Reading Under the Influence: A Woman’s Place Is in the Brewhouse with Tara Nurin
Tara Nurin (A Woman’s Place Is in the Brewhouse) discusses the contributions and influence of female brewers and explores the forces that have erased them from the brewing world, with …
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To Reimagine Time: Historical Fantasy
Natashia Deón (The Perishing), Nicole Glover (The Undertakers), and Shelley Parker-Chan (She Who Became the Sun) discuss their historical fantasy novels, each of which incorporate the magical or fantastic as …
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Speaking through History: Poetry of Persona
Poets Annie Kim (Eros, Unbroken) and Shara McCallum (No Ruined Stone) call on historical personas in their most recent books. They speak through and speak to these figures, engaging their …
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Secrets, Sisters, and Spies
Join authors Kellye Garrett (Like a Sister), Naomi Hirahara (Clark and Division), and Alma Katsu (Red Widow), as they share their highly-acclaimed, new mysteries offering keen explorations of sisterhood, both …
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My Monticello with Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson (My Monticello) discusses her debut book, a collection of short stories and the eponymous novella, exploring burdened inheritances and extraordinary pursuits of belonging. United by Johnson’s characters’ …
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Rust Belt Vegan Kitchen with Meredith Pangrace
Meredith Pangrace (Rust Belt Vegan Kitchen, editor) discusses and shares a cooking demo of one of the recipes from this community cookbook of Rust Belt culinary favorites, updated for today’s …
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Carol Troxell Reader: Imani Perry and South to America
An Alabama native, Imani Perry (South to America) returns to the region of her upbringing in this book, crafting a narrative of the real people and places that make up …
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Sowing Care and Justice
Co-editors Mai-Linh Hong and Chrissy Yee Lau and contributor Valerie Soe (The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice) discuss the work of the Auntie …
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Accidental Gods: Mysticism & Faith in Literary Fiction
Curdella Forbes (A Tall History of Sugar) and SJ Sindu (Blue-Skinned Gods) discuss their latest novels, exploring ideas of face value and faith, love and relationships, and the occasionally mystical …
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Fresh Portraits of Indomitable Women
Hilary Holladay (The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography) and Andrew Kaufman, (The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky) investigate the true …
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JMRL Same Page Community Read: We Are Not Free with Traci Chee
Traci Chee (We Are Not Free) discusses her acclaimed novel for young readers, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are …
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Who Owns Your DNA?
Genetics legal authority Jorge Contreras (The Genome Defense) shares the behind-the-scenes strategies and battles that played out over years in the groundbreaking civil rights case, AMP v. Myriad, fighting private …
