Driplet #4 -- ”It Must Be the Gas”: A Journey Inside Todd’s Broken Brain
Driplet #4 -- ”It Must Be the Gas”: A Journey Inside Todd’s Broken Brain
In this special Driplet, Anita gives Todd the chance to share his narrative of injury and recovery. After suffering a he... Read more
22 Jun 2023
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1hr 1min
Episode 44 -- Profound Sentences: James Baldwin’s GIOVANNI’S ROOM
Episode 44 -- Profound Sentences: James Baldwin’s GIOVANNI’S ROOM
Did you know many Black writers including Zora Neale Hurston, Frank Yerby, and Lorraine Hansberry wrote works in which m... Read more
28 May 2023
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1hr 2mins
Episode 43 -- Hold the Pum Pum Jokes: Learning to Love Leone Ross’s POPISHO
Episode 43 -- Hold the Pum Pum Jokes: Learning to Love Leone Ross’s POPISHO
Let's be honest -- when the Spoilers first started reading Leone Ross's Popisho, they were kind of confused. But as this... Read more
18 Apr 2023
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1hr 1min
Episode 42 -- A Touch of Grey: Attica Locke’s THE CUTTING SEASON
Episode 42 -- A Touch of Grey: Attica Locke’s THE CUTTING SEASON
It's been a minute, but the Spoilers are back with another compelling book conversation -- this time about Attica's Lock... Read more
22 Feb 2023
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1hr 4mins
Episode 41 -- Don’t Say It: Language, Teaching, and Community
Episode 41 -- Don’t Say It: Language, Teaching, and Community
In this special "bookless" episode (in which we actually talk about many books), the Spoilers take on the question of la... Read more
28 Dec 2022
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50mins
Episode 40 -- Easy Does It: Walter Mosley’s DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS
Episode 40 -- Easy Does It: Walter Mosley’s DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS
It's been a while, but the Spoilers are back -- this time taking on the dangerous, seedy underworld of 1940s Los Angeles... Read more
22 Nov 2022
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1hr 4mins
Episode 39 -- Apparently, We Love Her: Toni Morrison’s SULA
Episode 39 -- Apparently, We Love Her: Toni Morrison’s SULA
The Spoilers have been on a roll lately, doing shows about books that have just blown us away -- and this show is no exc... Read more
17 Sep 2022
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55mins
Episode 38 -- Eloghosa Osunde’s VAGABONDS!: We Are the Majority!
Episode 38 -- Eloghosa Osunde’s VAGABONDS!: We Are the Majority!
In this episode, the Spoilers can't stop gushing about Eloghosa Osunde's new novel, VAGABONDS! Structured like a spiritu... Read more
2 Aug 2022
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1hr 2mins
Episode 37 -- Around the World, Around the Corner: Discombobulated Migrations in Namrata Poddar’s BORDER LESS
Episode 37 -- Around the World, Around the Corner: Discombobulated Migrations in Namrata Poddar’s BORDER LESS
In another quiet episode, the Spoilers dig deep into issues of borders and migration both in Poddar's novel and in their... Read more
4 Jul 2022
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59mins
Episode 36 -- Ghostly Reverberations: Louise Erdrich’s THE SENTENCE
Episode 36 -- Ghostly Reverberations: Louise Erdrich’s THE SENTENCE
In a bit of a quiet episode, the Spoilers revisit 2020 with Tookie, the protagonist of Erdrich's beautiful novel. The no... Read more
23 May 2022
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1hr 2mins