Podcasts about afrekete

Following Donald Trump's dinner at Mar-A-Lago with Ye (formerly Kanye West) and white supremacist Nick Fuentes, novelist Michael Knight joins hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about the best and worst dinner parties in literature. They discuss the pressures of hosting, what makes someone a great guest, signature dishes, post-party regrets, and festive successes, as well as scenes in literature featuring all of these things. Knight also reads from a classic dinner party scene in his novella The Holiday Season. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf. Selected Readings: Michael Knight The Typist At Briarwood School for Girls Divining Rod Dogfight  Goodnight, Nobody  Eveningland The Holiday Season  Others: “The inside story of Trump's explosive dinner with Ye and Nick Fuentes,” by Marc Caputo The Days of Afrekete by Asali Solomon To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Leo Tolstoy “The 8 best Festivus moments from ‘Seinfeld,' ranked,” USA Today “Curb Your Enthusiasm”: Bad Middling Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca Lee Light Years by James Salter Last Night by James Salter Beloved by Toni Morrison The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf The Dark Tower VII by Stephen King Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Jim Harrison Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Redwall series by Brian Jacques Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trigger Warning: Brief mentions of suicide Lindsey and Tifani discuss The Days of Afrekete by Asali Solomon. Happy Reading!

La bailarina y folckorista Christina Monneron, habla de 'Afrekete: A Tale of Moving Gods', un espectáculo que explora el viaje espiritual de la música, la danza y la cultura que desarrollaron en Cuba los esclavos africanos y sus descendientes, y su posterior traslado a las costas australianas.

In conversation with Asali Solomon Ayana Mathis is the author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, ''a remarkable page-turner of a novel'' (Chicago Tribune) that follows the harrowing fortunes of a 15-year-old from Georgia to Philadelphia during the Great Migration. A New York Times bestseller, an NPR Best Book of 2013, and a selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0, it has been translated into 16 languages. Mathis is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has published fiction in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Guernica, and Rolling Stone, among other places. She teaches writing in Hunter College's MFA program. Set in turbulent 1980s Philadelphia and the small town of Bonaparte, Alabama, The Unsettled tells the tale of a mother, grandmother, and son struggling to save their identities, birthright, and future. Asali Solomon's latest novel, The Days of Afrekete has been called ''a feat of engineering'' by the New York Times. She is also the author of Disgruntled and Get Down: stories. Her previous novel, Disgruntled, was named a best book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle and The Denver Post. She is the recipient of a Pew Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and the National Book Foundation's ''5 Under 35'' honor. Her work has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Vibe, Essence, The Paris Review Daily, McSweeney's, on NPR, and in several anthologies including The Best Short Stories of 2021: The O. Henry Prize Collection. Solomon is the Bertrand K. Wilbur Chair in the Humanities at Haverford, where she is a Professor of English and director of Creative Writing. Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep our podcasts free for everyone. THANK YOU! (recorded 10/10/2023)

This episode, we welcome Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of the unforgettable and deeply profound TAKE MY HAND, which won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction. Carolina talks to Dolen about her writing and research process, the true-life inspiration behind TAKE MY HAND and the immense importance of historical fiction.  Alyssa and Carolina recap at the end, unpacking this powerful interview.You can find Dolen at www.dolenperkinsvaldez.com | Instagram: @dolenperkinsvaldez | Twitter: @dolenSubscribe and follow for more author interviews and book-related content: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/books-connect-us/id1059532301Books In Today's Show:Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676198/take-my-hand-by-dolen-perkins-valdez/The Days of Afrekete by Asali Solomon: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/692739/the-days-of-afrekete-by-asali-solomon/

Following Donald Trump's dinner at Mar-A-Lago with Ye (formerly Kanye West) and white supremacist Nick Fuentes, novelist Michael Knight joins hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about the best and worst dinner parties in literature. They discuss the pressures of hosting, what makes someone a great guest, signature dishes, post-party regrets, and festive successes, as well as scenes in literature featuring all of these things. Knight also reads from a classic dinner party scene in his novella The Holiday Season. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf. Selected Readings: Michael Knight The Typist At Briarwood School for Girls Divining Rod Dogfight  Goodnight, Nobody  Eveningland The Holiday Season Others: “The inside story of Trump's explosive dinner with Ye and Nick Fuentes,” by Marc Caputo The Days of Afrekete by Asali Solomon To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Leo Tolstoy “The 8 best Festivus moments from ‘Seinfeld,' ranked,” USA Today “Curb Your Enthusiasm”: Bad Middling Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca Lee Light Years by James Salter Last Night by James Salter Beloved by Toni Morrison The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf The Dark Tower VII by Stephen King Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Jim Harrison Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Redwall series by Brian Jacques Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jordan talks with Asali Solomon about The Days of Afrekete, the unexpected discovery that she's a funny writer, and trying to impart wisdom to students while she's still learning too.  MENTIONED: Get a Life (1990-1992) The Simple Stories by Langston Hughes The Book of Night Women by Marlon James An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken Asali Solomon's first novel, Disgruntled, was named a best book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle and The Denver Post. Her debut story collection, Get Down, earned her a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award and the National Book Foundation's “5 Under 35” honor, and was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her work has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Vibe, Essence, The Paris Review Daily, McSweeney's, and several anthologies, and on NPR. Solomon teaches fiction writing and literature of the African diaspora at Haverford College. She was born and raised in Philadelphia, where she lives with her husband and two sons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author Asali Solomon reads from her novel, The Days of Afrekete, which the New York Times calls "a feat of engineering...a reverie, a riff on Mrs. Dalloway and a love story...in prose as clear as water." Solomon was visiting writer at Widener University in October 2022. For more information, see https://www.asalisolomon.com/

In conversation with Asali Solomon Nigerian American author Chinelo Okparanta's acclaimed debut novel Under the Udala Trees celebrates the act of loving fearlessly, even amidst the strife of prejudice and civil war. Selected for more than a dozen periodicals' 2015 ''best of'' lists, it won a Lambda Literary Award, was a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award, and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in fiction. Okparanta is also the author of the short story collection Happiness, Like Water, winner of an O. Henry Prize, and a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and the Etisalat Prize for Literature. The director of the creative writing program at Swarthmore College, she has published fiction in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, and Tin House. Her latest novel delves into a young white man's journey from his prejudiced smalltown to a life of freedom in New York City. Asali Solomon is the author of the novels The Days of Afrekete and Disgruntled, the short story collection Get Down, and stories published in a wide array of periodicals, including McSweeney's, Essence, and O, The Oprah Magazine. A professor of fiction writing and literature of the African diaspora at Haverford College, she is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award and the National Book Foundation's ''5 Under 35'' honor.  (recorded 7/12/2022)

In conversation with Asali Solomon, author of the novels Disgruntled and Days of Afrekete Using ''gorgeous, compassionate prose'' to continue ''our national conversation about people working together to heal our communities'' (The Washington Post), Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the author of The New York Times bestselling novels Wench and Balm. She has been a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards, the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, and the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Award, and she won the 2011 First Novelist Award from Black Caucus of the American Library Association. The current chair of the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, she teaches creative writing at American University in Washington, D.C. In Take My Hand, inspired by shocking real-life events, Perkins-Valdez tells the story of Civil Townsend, a Black doctor who seeks justice for wrongs done to her patients decades before in 1970s Alabama. (recorded 4/20/2022)

Sara Nović webcams into the Damn Library Zoom Zone to talk her new novel, True Biz. We discuss the limitations of prose in comparison to ASL, how she tried to mimic ASL on the page, some fantasies of Eyeth, and the propulsive nature of short chapters. Also a lot of other stuff. Plus, Sara brought along The Days of Afrekete by Asali Solomon, a book that both agree is "a feat of engineering" just like the NYT said. contribute! https://patreon.com/smdb for drink recipes, book lists, and more, visit: somanydamnbooks.com music: Disaster Magic (https://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scholars have long believed that the first Americans arrived via land bridge some 13,000 years ago, when retreating glaciers created an inland corridor from Siberia. Jennifer Raff, an anthropological geneticist at the University of Kansas, tells a different story in “Origin.” According to Raff, the path to the Americas was coastal rather than inland, and what we've thought of as a bridge was a homeland inhabited for millenniums. Raff talks about the book on this week's podcast.“In recent years, the ability to obtain complete genomes from ancient ancestors has really given us new insights — extraordinary new insights — into the histories not only of individuals and populations but also of our ancestors globally,” Raff says. “We can now identify the populations who originally gave rise to the ancestors of Native Americans. And we can identify extremely important evolutionary events in that process going back, starting about 26,000 years ago. So we can use genetics to identify biological histories, to characterize biological histories, and even identify populations which we had no idea existed based on archaeology alone.'Ira Rutkow visits the podcast to talk about “Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery.” Rutkow says the idea for the book evolved over the course of 50 years, and that he wrote it for the general public and surgeons alike.“I was dismayed, over the course of my surgical practice, at how little patients understood about the whys and wherefores of what a surgeon did, or how a surgeon becomes a surgeon,” he says. And he was “shocked” when he would ask colleagues historical questions — “When did anesthesia come about? When did Lister discover antisepsis?” — and “they would have no idea.”Also on this week's episode, Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world, and Elisabeth Egan and John Williams talk about what they've been reading. Pamela Paul is the host.Here are the books discussed in this week's “What We're Reading”:“The Days of Afrekete” by Asali Solomon“A Word Child” by Iris Murdoch“The Examined Life” by Stephen Grosz“The True American” by Anand GiridharadasWe would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general. You can send them to books@nytimes.com.

BONUS EPISODE ON HBO EUPHORIA'S SEASON 2 FINALE UP ON PATREON! https://www.patreon.com/join/TheLavenderMenace Welcome to episode 8 of season 3! Here is a comma separated, hopefully exhaustive list of things we discuss: "tankies," the misuse of the word "nuance," debunking the idea of “state capitalism,” (books referenced- How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney, Blood In My Eye by George Jackson, Neocolonialism by Kwame Nkrumah, The Unfree Origins Of American Capitalism by Seth Rockman, Dialectical and Historical Materialism by Stalin), the silliness of a sapphic Tik Tok about the oppression of bottoms, "you're so valid" etc, opposing the gender trinary, material reality of gendered oppression, the new Netflix lesbian short film Heart Shot is kind of corny, Void dir. Emma Seligman, D.E.B.S., Leading Lady Parts, Shiva Baby, Recicatif (in reference to discussing Passing on season 3 episode 3), adaptations, Arrival and Ted Chiang's Story of Your Life and Others, Asali Solomon's new novel The Days of Afrekete. Bonus episode on The Watermelon Woman available for Patrons soon! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Tik Tok, Letterboxd, and YouTube for extra The Lavender Menace slay, and you can email us your hot takes to discuss at thelavendermenacepodcast@gmail.com!

Brit and I discuss The Vanishing Half, why writing her sophomore novel was more difficult, what she loves to hear from her readers, balancing research and writing, her paperback release, and much more. Brit's recommended reads are: Look at Me by Jennifer Egan The Days of Afrekete by Asali Solomon Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead Support the podcast by becoming a Page Turner on Patreon.  Other ways to support the podcast can be found here.   If you enjoyed this episode and want to listen to more episodes, try Jason Mott, Sanjena Sathian, Kim Neville, Nancy Johnson, and Bianca Marais. The Vanishing Half can be purchased at my Bookshop storefront.    Connect with me on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we're joined by returning guest Asali Solomon (author of The Days of Afrekete) to discuss Kiese Laymon's award-winning memoir, Heavy. We talk about what people expect from memoir, and why readers are sometimes put off by complicated stories without easy resolutions.

Novelist Asali Solomon joins hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss accountability, the ongoing Congressional investigation into the January 6 insurrection, and her new novel. The Days of Afrekete, an Obama-era story, follows Liselle Belmont, a Black woman throwing a dinner party for her white husband, a politician who is suspected of corruption. As she considers her own personal and political choices, she flashes back to a lost love: her college girlfriend Selena. Solomon reads from the book and talks about depicting accountability and its lack, the intimate costs of being connected to power, and how Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Toni Morrison's Sula, and Audre Lorde's Zami influenced her storytelling. She also reflects on how reading the late bell hooks gave her a new vision of herself in the world. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video excerpts from our interviews at LitHub's Virtual Book Channel, Fiction/Non/Fiction's YouTube Channel, and our website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf. Selected readings: Asali Solomon The Days of Afrekete Disgruntled Get Down Killing the Donald Trump in Us: How to Be Less Like the Man We Elected to Lead Us Others: About | Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol Philadelphia keeps revisiting MOVE bombing history because we never truly learned it | Opinion Rashida Tlaib berates Mark Meadows for using black woman as 'a prop' at hearing - POLITICO Liz Cheney Takes Center Stage in Jan. 6 Inquiry - The New York Times Significant Other | The New Yorker House Seeks Contempt Charge Against Meadows in Jan. 6 Inquiry - The New York Times Meadows and the Band of Loyalists: How They Fought to Keep Trump in Power - The New York Times A Dinner Party About Lost Selves and Lost Chances - Electric Literature The Good Wife The West Wing Zami by Audre Lorde Sula by Toni Morrison Angela Davis Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf bell hooks  Black Looks Teaching to Transgress Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Subscribe on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQX-nWBQWKL3lnx52f3AuCwBOOKS MENTIONED: “The Days of Afrekete” by Asali Solomonhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269273-the-days-of-afrekete?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=7rL1bppPp6&rank=1 “The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes: A Story of Love, Loss, and Rock-And-Roll” by Xio Axelrodhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54221759-the-girl-with-stars-in-her-eyes?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=uYltJ4PDWl&rank=1 “Cackle” by Rachel Harrisonhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56637938-cackle?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=8TFWeNrcY0&rank=1 “Find You First” by Linwood Barclayhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54870100-find-you-first?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=Myn9nF5lqZ&rank=1 “Summer Sons” by Lee Mandelohttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53290204-summer-sons?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=uxPUjXKcFu&rank=1 FOLLOW ME ON…GOODREADS:https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/58041478-iliketoreadpodINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/iliketoreadpod/TWITTER: https://twitter.com/rpolansky77FACEBOOK:https://www.facebook.com/iliketoreadpodMEDIA MAVEN BLOG:https://rpolansky77.wixsite.com/website

This week, award-winning writers Asali Solomon and Rebecca Makkai discuss Solomon's new novel The Days of Afrekete. This conversation originally took place October 26th, 2021 and was recorded live via Zoom. We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer. AWM PODCAST NETWORK HOME

This week, award-winning writers Asali Solomon and Rebecca Makkai discuss Solomon's new novel The Days of Afrekete. This conversation originally took place October 26th, 2020 and was recorded live via Zoom. We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer.

On Read to Me, we practice the essential, joyous skill inside great writing: listening. We listen for what we love in the work, and then put words to why it's so, so good.  Today, we read from The Days of Afrekete by Asali Solomon. (And hear my son build with legos in the deep background.) We get to see how the author isolates two college-student characters (a senior from herself, a freshman from the world) with body detail, relationships to books, and physical space. But we also get to see how the writing turns that double isolation into an inevitable, luscious meet-cute. The podcast comes from Read to Me Literary Arts. You have a gift for writing. Here is where you can open it — with writing groups, coaching, book programs, and more. www.readtomeliteraryarts.com

In conversation with Nicole Dennis-Benn Asali Solomon is the author of Disgruntled, ''a smart, philosophical, coming-of-age'' (San Francisco Chronicle) novel about the double-binds of race in late 1980s Philadelphia. Her other work includes the short story collection Get Down, as well as stories published in a wide array of periodicals, including McSweeney's, Essence, and O, The Oprah Magazine. A professor of fiction writing and literature of the African diaspora at Haverford College, Solomon is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award and the National Book Foundation's ''5 Under 35'' honor. The Days of Afrekete follows two women who reconnect years after their college days and rediscover themselves amidst the questions asked at middle age. Nicole Dennis-Benn is the author of Patsy and Here Comes the Sun, a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the Lambda Literary Award. Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, she teaches at Princeton and lives with her wife in Brooklyn, New York. (recorded 10/20/2021)

Gabi and Megan each discuss 10 fall releases they are excited about.Gabi's listFault Lines by Emily Itami Pub date: September 7th, 2021The Shaadi Set-up by Lillie Vale Pub date: September 7th, 2021Snowflake by Louise Nealon Pub date: September 7th, 2021Assembly by Natasha Brown Pub date: September 14th, 2021Payback's a Witch by Lana Harper Pub date: October 5th, 2021This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno Pub date: October12th, 2021A Season of Second Chances by Jenny Bayliss Pub date: October 19th, 2021Nice Girls by Catherine Dang Pub date: October 19th, 2021The Days of Afrekete by Asali Solomon Pub date: October 19th, 2021Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney Pub date: September 7th, 2021Megan's List:Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead Pub date: September 7th, 2021Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang Pub date: September 7th, 2021The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina by Zoraida Cordova Pub date: September 7th, 2021Matrix by Lauren Groff Pub Date: September 7th, 2021I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins Pub Date: October 5th, 2021We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza Pub Date: October 5th, 2021A Lot Like Adios by Alexis Daria Pub Date: October 5th, 2021My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Jackson Pub Date: October 5th, 2021State of Terror by Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny Pub Date: October 12th, 2021A Season of Second Chances by Jenny Bayliss Pub Date: October 19th, 2021These Precious Days by Ann Patchett Pub Date: November 23rd, 2021Other Things Discussed:Olympus Texas by Stacey SwannThe Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny BaylissInspector Gamache SeriesThese Precious Days essay

Afrekete is a well-known organization on Spelman's campus these days, so the Archives team decided to have a chat with the person responsible for forming it! Diop, Shaquavia, and Elizabeth ask Kendra Johnson, the founder of Afrekete, about how she came of age at Spelman, how she started the club, and what she would tell her younger self. Listen in and send us feedback at bluerecord@spelman.edu. Also, you can visit our website thebluerecordpodcast.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-blue-record/message