Podcasts about Another Brooklyn

It's a news round up and it's a mess. Missouri is now requiring proof of gender reassignment surgery for folks to update their IDs, Lowe's is the most recent company to take back their LGBTQ+ support efforts, and Team LGBTQ+ is earning medals in the Paralympics. Am I a Bad Queer? Brought the range. We discussed loving long distance relationships and hating being together in person, queer themed weddings that make you feel like you aren't queer enough and getting off dating apps. We wrap up our Bad Queer opinions calling in gay men and masculine presenting folks for a discussion. Shoutouts: Kris: Another Brooklyn: A Novel - Jacqueline Woodson. An anthropologist looks back on her past to understand the death of her mother and the loss of her closest friends. Another Brooklyn is a novel about love and memory. And of course, about Brooklyn. Follow on IG @jacqueline_woodsonShana: Yes Homo - Edgy queer brand for bold, confident and sexy homos. They are coming out with new apparel this fall, so keep an eye out by following @yeshomo.co Episode Notes: [0:50] Queer Urban Dictionary [4:06] Category Is: Missouri Now Requires Proof of Gender Reassignment Surgery for Trans People to Update Their ID[5:46] Category is: Lowe's becomes the latest company to dial back DEI efforts aimed at LGBTQ Groups [12:51] Category is: Team LGBTQ+ Paris Paralympics[15:16] Am I a Bad Queer? [30:52] Bad Queer Opinion [39:43] ShoutoutsSupport the Show.We are on Patreon!! Support the podcast by subscribing to our Patreon: patreon.com/BadQueersPodcastAffiliates we actually love Support Lucky Skivvies and our pod by using coupon code badqueers10 for 10% off your next purchase. Treat your butt today.Shop NowSend your Am I A Bad Queer questions to us on our website at https://badqueers.com/ Email at badqueers@badqueers.com or DM on InstagramFollow us @badqueerspod on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram & Tik TokLove our soundtrack? Check out Siena Liggins: @sienaligginsLike us? Love us? Leave a review The opinions expressed during this podcast are conversational in nature and expressed only for comedic purposes. Not all of the facts will be correct but we attempt to be as accurate as possible. BQ Media LLC, the hosts, nor any guest host(s) hold no liabilit...

In a special episode recorded before a live audience at the 2024 Ohioana Book Festival, Jacqueline Woodson and Hanif Abdurraqib discuss their latest books, their artistic influences, how they define “making it” as a writer, what it was like to win the MacArthur Fellowship, how they navigate their public roles as authors, how libraries impacted their lives, and more.   Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He is the author of the poetry collections The Crown Ain't Worth Much and A Fortune for Your Disaster. His nonfiction titles include Go Ahead in The Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, and A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. His latest book is There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension.   Jacqueline Woodson is the author of more than thirty books for young people and adults, including Another Brooklyn, Red at The Bone, and The Day You Begin. She received a 2023 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and a 2023 E. B. White Award, among many other accolades, and was the 2018–2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. Her memoir Brown Girl Dreaming won the National Book Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, and the NAACP Image Award. In 2018, she founded Baldwin For The Arts, a residency serving writers, composers, interdisciplinary, and visual artists of the Global Majority. Her most recent book, Remember Us, is a middle grade novel set in Bushwick.   The panel was sponsored by Ohio Humanities and hosted at the Ohioana Book Festival at the Columbus Metropolitan Library on April 20, 2024. Festival photos: Mary Rathke   Page Count is produced by Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library. For full show notes and a transcript of this episode, visit the episode page. To get in touch, email ohiocenterforthebook@cpl.org (put “podcast” in the subject line) or follow us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.

Do you believe that authors should "stay in thelr lanes"? See what our Keep It Fictional Book Chat librarians think, after they read a book by an author who decides to try out a new genre, or write for a different audience. Books mentioned on this episode: The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi, Coraline by Neil Gaiman, Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson, Shuna's Journey by Hayao Miyazaki and translated by Alex Dudok de Wit. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/keepitfictional/message

Jacqueline Woodson, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, while on tour for her novel Another Brooklyn, recorded September 20, 2016. The interview was posted as a podcast on October 30, 2016. Jacqueline Woodson is known for her young adult novels, and won the National Book Award for Young Peoples Literature in 2014 for Brown Girl Dreaming. She was in the KPFA studios to discuss Another Brooklyn, her first adult novel in over two decades. Since that time, Jacqueline Woodson has come out with two middle school novels, Harbor Me and Before the Ever After, the adult novel Red at the Bone, and two illustrated children's books. Another Brooklyn tells the story of four African American girls growing up in Brooklyn during the 1970s, focusing on August, a transplant from the South with a single father, growing up during a turbulent era and struggling to find herself. The post Jacqueline Woodson, “Another Brooklyn,” 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves Martin Amis (1949-2023), in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff in the KPFA studios, January 27, 1998 while on tour for his novel, “Night Train,” published in 1997. This is the second of five interviews with Martin Amis for KPFA's Probabilities/Bookwaves program, which were recorded over a period of 23 years. Along with Night Train, he discusses his novel which was published in 1995, The Information. The three books he discusses at the end of the interview were a short story collection, Heavy Water and Other Stories, which came out later in 1998, a much celebrated memoir and Booker prize winner, Experience,  in published in 2000, and another long novel, Yellow Dog, a satire focusing on British ideas of masculinity and patrimony, published in 2003. Known for such novels as London Fields, Money, Time's Arrow, The Information and The Zone of Interest, the Booker Prize winning memoir, Experience, and his essay collection The War Against Cliché, Martin Amis was he son of novelist and essayist Kingsley Amis, He was also close friends with Christopher Hitchens, Saul Bellow and Philip Larkin, all of whom he wrote about in his final memoir disguised as a novel, Inside Story, in 2020. This interview was digitized, remastered and edited in August 2023 by Richard Wolinsky, has not been heard since its original broadcast. Complete 33-minute Interview.   Bookwaves Jacqueline Woodson, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, while on tour for her novel Another Brooklyn, recorded September 20, 2016. Jacqueline Woodson is known for her young adult novels, and won the National Book Award for Young Peoples Literature in 2014 for Brown Girl Dreaming. She was in the KPFA studios to discuss Another Brooklyn, her first adult novel in over two decades. Since that time, Jacqueline Woodson has come out with two middle school novels, Harbor Me and Before the Ever After, the adult novel Red at the Bone, and two illustrated children's books. Another Brooklyn tells the story of four African American girls growing up in Brooklyn during the 1970s, focusing on August, a transplant from the South with a single father, growing up during a turbulent era and struggling to find herself. Extended 37-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast.   Book Interview/Events and Theatre Links Note: Shows may unexpectedly close early or be postponed due to actors' positive COVID tests. Check the venue for closures, ticket refunds, and vaccination and mask requirements before arrival. Dates are in-theater performances unless otherwise noted. Some venues operate Tuesday – Sunday; others Wednesday or Thursday through Sunday. All times Pacific Time. Closing dates are sometimes extended. Book Stores Bay Area Book Festival  Event calendar and links to previous events. 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We discuss some of the best books about or set in New York City to recommend to newcomers or longtime residents hoping to learn more about the city they call home. Julie Golia, the associate director of manuscripts, archives, and rare books and the Charles J. Liebman curator of manuscripts for The New York Public Library, shares some of her favorite titles and we take listener suggestions. Also, the library created its own list of 125 books to celebrate their 125th anniversary year. Here's a list of all the NYC books discussed in this conversation: "City of Girls" by Elizabeth Gilbert "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" by Michael Chabon "The Fortress of Solitude" by Jonathan Lethem "Lush Life" by Richard Price "Let the Great World Spin" by Colum McCann "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith "Another Brooklyn" by Jacqueline Woodson "The Bonfire of the Vanities" by Tom Wolfe "The Colossus of New York" by Colson Whitehead "The New York Trilogy" by Paul Auster "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald "Motherless Brooklyn" by Jonathan Lethem "A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara "The New York Nobody Knows" by William B. Helmreich "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger "The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton

To celebrate Halloween, this week's episode is magical! Acclaimed authors Dhonielle Clayton and Jacqueline Woodson discuss Clayton's recent middle grade debut The Marvellers, a fantasy adventure set in a global magic school in the sky. This conversation originally took place May 15th, 2022 at the inaugural American Writers Festival and was recorded live. AWM PODCAST NETWORK HUB Dhonielle Clayton spent most of her childhood under her grandmother's table with a stack of books. She hails from the Washington, D.C. suburbs on the Maryland side. She is the author of the Tiny Pretty Things series (recently adapted by Netflix) and The Belles series. She earned an MA in Children's Literature from Hollins University and an MFA in Writing for Children at the New School. Now, she is a librarian at Harlem Village Academies, is one of the #WeNeedDiverseBooks librarians, and co-founder of CAKE Literary. The Marvellers is her debut middle grade novel. Jacqueline Woodson is the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children's Literature Legacy Award, and she was the 2018–2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. Her New York Times bestselling memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming, won the National Book Award, as well as the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, and the NAACP Image Award. She also wrote the adult books Red at the Bone, a New York Times bestseller, and Another Brooklyn, a 2016 National Book Award finalist. Her dozens of books for young readers include Coretta Scott King Award and NAACP Image Award winner Before the Ever After, New York Times bestsellers The Year We Learned to Fly, The Day You Begin, and Harbor Me, Newbery Honor winners Feathers, Show Way, and After Tupac and D Foster, and the picture book Each Kindness, which won the Jane Addams Children's Book Award.

Jacqueline Woodson always loved to read and write.  But growing up in Brooklyn, she didn't see herself represented in her beloved books.  She has helped to change that, serving as a beacon for young, aspiring black and brown writers and more.  Books such as Brown Girl Dreaming and Another Brooklyn have earned her numerous awards, including the MacArthur Fellowship in 2020.  Her books are read around the world, but the Brooklyn neighborhood of her youth is never far away.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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First Draft Episode #349: John Cho John Cho, actor, producer, writer, and author of debut middle grade novel, Troublemaker, with Sarah Suk. Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode: Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston Sarah Suk, author of Made in Korea and the forthcoming The Space Between Here and Now

First Draft Episode #341: Jon Scieszka Jon Scieszka, former National Ambassador for Children's Literature and New York Times bestselling author best known for picture books with illustrator Lane Smith, including The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, Math Curse, and more. Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode: The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio Jacqueline Woodson, 2020 MacArthur Genius fellow, National Book Award winner, Newberry, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King winner, former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Brown Girl Dreaming, Red at the Bone, Another Brooklyn, Before the Ever After and many, many more. She joins us to talk about her picture books with Rafael López, The Day You Begin and The Year We Learned to Fly. Hear her First Draft interview here. 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Jacqueline Woodson is a 2020 MacArthur Genius fellow, National Book Award winner, Newberry, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King winner, former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Brown Girl Dreaming, Red at the Bone, Another Brooklyn, Before the Ever After and many, many more. She joins us to talk about her picture books with Rafael López, The Day You Begin and The Year We Learned to Fly.

In this episode, Dario sits with writer and MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow, Jacqueline Woodson. Woodson's work reflects the prose, poetry, and undying possibilities that exist within the lives of young Black people. Often including themes that land her books on censored reading lists, Woodson challenges readers to consider our own relationships to the complexities and contraindications of life.  In today's conversation, we'll explore themes of parenting in a pandemic, the techniques and tools of a storyteller, Black economic wealth across generations, and the promise of safety young people bring to this world. If you aspire to write or we know you dare to dream, light a candle and put on your headphones, because today, you're gonna hear why Woodson commands these hallowed halls of Black imagination.  Things We Mentioned:  https://scenicregional.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Mirrors-Windows-and-Sliding-Glass-Doors.pdf (“Mirrors, Windows, Sliding Glass Doors”) by Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop          “https://www.harpercollins.com/products/another-brooklyn-jacqueline-woodson?variant=32122035699746 (Another Brooklyn)” by Jacqueline Woodson  If you come softly by Jacqueline Woodson https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/299792/if-you-come-softly-by-jacqueline-woodson/ (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/299792/if-you-come-softly-by-jacqueline-woodson/) Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/97395/bird-by-bird-by-anne-lamott/ (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/97395/bird-by-bird-by-anne-lamott/) Natalie Diaz  https://www.nataliegermainediaz.com/ (https://www.nataliegermainediaz.com/) The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/190696/the-warmth-of-other-suns-by-isabel-wilkerson/ (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/190696/the-warmth-of-other-suns-by-isabel-wilkerson/) Baldwin for the arts https://baldwinforthearts.org/ (https://baldwinforthearts.org/)  To learn more about Jacqueline: https://www.jacquelinewoodson.com/ (https://www.jacquelinewoodson.com/) Instagram https://instagram.com/jacqueline_woodson?utm_medium=copy_link (@jaqueline_woodson) Twitter https://twitter.com/jackiewoodson?s=21 (@jackiewoodson)

Play along with the Brooklyn Geo-Quiz, with guest quiz leader Jacqueline Woodson, the author of many books, in prose and poetry, for adults and children, including the National Book Award-winning Brown Girl Dreaming (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2014), Another Brooklyn (Amistad, 2016) and her latest book, Before the Ever After (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2020).

In this episode, the hosts share their favorite texts that can be read in a single sitting. This episode is completely spoiler-free! Books mentioned in the episode: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (1966) The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943) The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers (1951) Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West (1933) A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (1964) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (1962) Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (2000) Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (2018) Blow Up & Other Short Stories by Julio Cortázar (1963) Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (1944) Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval (2018) Samson Agonistes by John Milton (1671) Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson (2016) Franny & Zooey by J. D. Salinger (1961) Crush by Richard Siken (2005) Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson (2019) I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Ian Reid (2016) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon (2003) Written on the Body by Jeannette Winterson (1992) Slipping by Mohamed Kheir (2021)

First Draft Episode #307: John Green John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of many young adult novels, including The Fault in Our Stars and Printz-winning Looking For Alaska, joins to discuss his new essay collection, The Anthropocene Reviewed. He is also one half of the vlogbrothers on YouTube and co-creator of educational series Crash Course. Today’s episode is brought to you by JAY’S GAY AGENDA, a moving and hilarious sex-positive queer teen rom-com from debut novelist Jason June, out from HarperCollins now. Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode: Hank Green’s First Draft interview discussing A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor, the sequel to his #1 New York Times bestselling debut, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. Hank is, along with his brother John Green, the CEO of Complexly, co-host of the Vlogbrothers YouTube channel and the Dear Hank and John podcast, and is also co-founder of VidCon, DFTBA Records, and Crash Course. Listen to his First Draft interview here. The Babysitter’s Club by Anne M. Martin Fallen Angels and Monster by Walter Dean Myers Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt Where the Red Fern Goes by Wilson Rawls Sula and Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse Five and Cat’s Cradle The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird J.D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak, Chains, and memoir Shout Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming, Locomotion, Another Brooklyn, and many many more. Harvey (movie) Booklist The Looking For Alaska mini-series in Hulu “The Anthropocene Reviewed Reviewed,” an episode of John’s podcast, The Anthropocene Reviewed “On Being Ill” by Virginia Woolf Turtles All the Way Down by John Green “Hank Reviews Everything” video on the Vlogbrothers channel Katrina Vandenberg, poet Claude Glass Superleague (official website, woof) explained so well in this New York Times review and this podcast episode of The Daily, as well as the three-episode breakdown of Men In Jackets (ep 1, ep 2, ep 3)  

Where Brooklyn At! We are back with another book that is set in Brooklyn,NY. Can you tell we love where we are from lol. Join us while we watch 4 young black girls learn the ins and outs of growing up in Brooklyn. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A bildungsroman is "a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education". Often, it is recognized as Coming of Age. And it's a genre that August and Kendra both love! In this episode, the hosts list their five favorite coming or age texts of all time. This episode is spoiler-free, so feel free to enjoy whether you have read any of the texts or not. Books mentioned in the episode: Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (1956) Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson (2016) Dare Me by Megan Abbott (2012) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (2007) White Teeth by Zadie Smith (2000) Clash by Ellen Wilkinson (1929) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (2007) The Female of the Species by Lionel Shriver (1987) Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (1985) History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (2017) A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962) Maurice by E.M. Forster (1971) Good Omens by Novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (1990) Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (2000) North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell (1854) A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916) A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (2015) The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde (1890)

Celebrating our One Author New Canaan visit by Jacqueline Woodson by embracing her unique voice in poetic prose. Kathleen and Sam consider unreliable memory and discomfort reads, upcoming poetry month and summer books.

First Draft Episode #281: David Levithan David Levithan is editorial director at Scholastic and the author of many young adult novels, including Boy Meets Boy, Every Day, and co-author with Rachel Cohn of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares. Sips By is the only mutl-brand, personalized monthly tea subscription box, which makes discovering tea fun and affordable! Use the code “firstdraft” for 50% off your first Sips By box at www.sipsby.com. On the Remember Reading podcast, discover the tales behind these beloved children’s book classics. Hear from award-winning authors like Meg Cabot, Katherine Paterson, and Tiffany Jackson, and guests as they uncover the unique story behind each story. Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode The Babysitters Club series by Anne M. Martin David launched PUSH, the Scholastic imprint still there today Jean Feiwel, Senior Vice President and Publisher, Feiwel & Friends, Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, Swoon Reads, Square Fish Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Dan Ehrenhaft, author of The Last Dog on Earth, Friend is Not a Verb, and That’s Life, Samara Brooks Sarah Mlynowski, author of Just a Boy and a Girl in a Little Canoe, I See London, I See France, and co-author of Upside-Down Magic The New York City Teen Author Festival Nancy Garden, author of Annie on My Mind, The Year They Burned the Books, and Endgame. Francesca Lia Block, Francesca Lia Block, author of more than 25 books, including seminal YA novel WEETZIE BAT, talks about her most recent book, THE THORN NECKLACE, a memoir-driven guide to healing through the craft of writing. (listen to her First Draft interview here) Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award and Newberry Honor winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming, Another Brooklyn, Miracle’s Boys and many more Brent Hartinger’s Geography Club Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of of several YA novels, including 13 Little Blue Envelopes, Suite Scarlett, The Name of the Star, and Truly Devious: A Mystery. She has also done collaborative works, such as Let It Snow (with John Green and Lauren Myracle), and The Bane Chronicles (with Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan). (Listen to my interview with Maureen Johnson here) Lauren Myracle’s Kissing Kate Alex Sanchez’s The Rainbow Boys series Sara Ryan’s Empress of the World David edits Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games David edits Garth Nix, author of the Sabriel series, Angel Mage, and many more Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (movie) Bill Clegg, a literary agent formerly with WME and now at The Clegg Agency Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn Will Grayson, Will Grayson which David co-wrote with John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Looking For Alaska You Know Me Well with Nina LaCour (listen to her First Draft episodes here and here) Maggie Stiefvater, author of the The Raven Boys series, Shiver, and The Scorpio Races Alex Gino’s Stonewall Award-winning George I want to hear from you! Have a question about writing or creativity for Sarah Enni or her guests to answer? To leave a voicemail, call (818) 533-1998 or send an email to mailbag @ firstdraftpod dot com! Subscribe To First Draft with Sarah Enni Every Tuesday, I speak to storytellers like Veronica Roth, author of Divergent; National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Jason Reynolds; Leigh Bardugo, author of Ninth House and the Grishaverse series; Creator of Sex and the City Candace Bushnell; YouTube empresario and author Hank Green; Actors, comedians and screenwriters Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham; author and host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast Linda Holmes; Bestselling authors and co-hosts of the Call Your Girlfriend podcast, Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow; Michael Dante  DiMartino, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender; John August, screenwriter of Big Fish and co-host of the Sciptnotes podcast; or Rhett Miller, musician and frontman for The Old 97s. Together, we take deep dives on their careers and creative works. Don’t miss an episode! Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Track Changes If you’re looking for more information on how to get published, or the traditional publishing industry, check out the Track Changes podcast series, and sign up for the Track Changes weekly newsletter. Support the Show Love the show? Make a monthly or one-time donation at Paypal.me/FirstDraft. Rate, Review, and Recommend Take a moment to rate and review First Draft with Sarah Enni in Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts. Your honest and positive review helps others discover the show -- so thank you! Is there someone you think would love this podcast as much as you do? Just click the Share button at the bottom of this post! Thanks again!

Slip on your comfiest shoes (ideally the ones that don’t go outdoors?) and get ready to curl up with a good book—or, rather, our enthusiastic endorsements of 26 novels by Black authors. YA and romance included, duh.   The linkage:   If you want more from us on Instagram, head to @athingortwohq. If you want to give us a ring, dial up 833-632-5463.   Some (Birkenstock-y) house-shoe picks: Arizona Essentials EVA, Boston Essentials EVA, and Boston Suede with Shearling.     NOVELS BY BLACK AUTHORS! That we love! Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid; Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue; The Idea of You by Robinne Lee; The Wedding Date, The Proposal, The Wedding Party, and more (!!) by Jasmine Guillory; The Nickel Boys (and next up: Sag Harbor) by Colson Whitehead; My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite; American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson; What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons; An American Marriage and Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones; The Mothers (and next up: The Vanishing Half) by Brit Bennett; Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson; Homegoing (up next: Transcendent Kingdom) by Yaa Gyasi; We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge; Americanah and The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.   YA NOVELS! With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo; The Hate U Give and On the Come Up by Angie Thomas; The Sun is Also a Star and Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon.   Listen to Tayari Jones on our podcast or on Death, Sex & Money (where she talks about getting a call from Oprah!).   Get your DIY fix with Sewsquad. For free shipping on your first order, sign up for the newsletter. YAY.   Produced by Dear Media

Annie is joined this week by her well-traveled friend and fellow entrepreneur, Morgan Thomason. Morgan is the designer behind Winsome Paper, a whimsical stationery brand. Annie and Morgan help listeners travel through books this summer as most of our travel plans are a bust (for now). The books discussed on today’s podcast are available for purchase from The Bookshelf: London picks: Ordinary People by Diana Evans 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams Europe picks: L’Appart by David Lebovitz The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais The Vacationers by Emma Straub Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante America picks: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard The Next Great Jane by K.L. Going Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan Next Great Jane by KL Going Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Other hot summer vacation picks: Tangerine by Christine Mangan Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry The Dutch House by Ann Patchett Annie’s Summer TBR list: Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com.  Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations.  This week Annie is reading Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson and Morgan is reading Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty by Kate Hennessy. If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free shipping on all your online orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

Winner of the 2019 National Book Award for fiction, Trust Exercise follows a star-crossed suburban teen romance in a 1980s performing arts high school. Susan Choi's novels are known for excavating the hidden corners of the human heart and acclaimed for their ''nuance, psychological acuity, and pitch-perfect writing'' (Los Angeles Times). Her books include the Asian American Literary Award–winning The Foreign Student; American Woman, a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize; A Person of Interest, a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award; and My Education, winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction. A creative writing teacher at Yale, Choi has earned Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. The author of nearly 30 books for young people and adults, Jacqueline Woodson has won three Newbery Honors, a Coretta Scott King Award and three Coretta Scott King Honors, and the 2014 National Book Award for Brown Girl Dreaming, a poetry collection about her upbringing in New York and South Carolina amidst the vestiges of Jim Crow. Her other books include After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Another Brooklyn, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Woodson's latest novel, ''a universal American tale of striving, failing, then trying again'' (Time), addresses a bevy of societal issues through the intergenerational saga of a family striving to escape the tug of history. (recorded 5/7/2020)

The author of "Another Brooklyn" recommends a James Baldwin novel she says belongs on everyone's bookshelf. —This author recommends— If Beale Street Could Talk (Vintage International) —More from this author— Interview: Four Girls Growing Up In 'Another Brooklyn'

Jacqueline Woodson is the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of “Another Brooklyn” and “Brown Girl Dreaming.” Her latest novel, “Red at the Bone,” tells how an unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from different social classes, and exposes the private hopes, disappointments, and longings that can bind or divide us from […]

Jacqueline Woodson is the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of “Another Brooklyn” and “Brown Girl Dreaming.” Her latest novel, “Red at the Bone,” tells how an unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from different social classes, and exposes the private hopes, disappointments, and longings that can bind or divide us from […]

In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, taped live at the inaugural Wordplay in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Marlon James and Daniel José Older speak with hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about the politics of literary categories. They talk about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the history of queerness in Africa, the importance of plot, the Wookieepedia, writing violence and respecting readers, and the details of dinosaurs. Guests: ●      Marlon James ●      Daniel José Older Readings for the Episode: ●      Black Leopard, Red Wolfby Marlon James ●      Dactyl Hill Squad & Dactyl Hill Squad: Freedom Fireby Daniel Jose Older ●      Hollywood Wivesby Jackie Collins ●      Buffy the Vampire Slayer ●      The Iliadby Homer ●      All the President's Menby Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein ●      Madame Bovaryby Gustave Flaubert ●      Octavia Butler ●      The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ringby J.R.R. Tolkien ●      100 Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia Marquez ●      The Stand & It by Stephen King ●      Shogunby James Clavell ●      Avatar: The Last Airbender ●      Star Wars: A New Hope ●      The Harry Potter Seriesby J.K. Rowling ●      Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls ●      Pokémon Detective Pikachu ●      Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson ●      Jesmyn Ward ●      Nicholson Baker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Golden Voice narrator Robin Miles is known for her powerful voice and has narrated hundreds of audiobooks, including important works of women's and Black History. She combines thoughtful and subtle reading with a chameleon-like ability to create a wide array of accents for titles including: Zora Neale Hurston’s BARRACOON A GIRL STANDS AT THE DOOR: by Rachel Devlin REFLECTIONS BY ROSA PARKS: THE QUIET STRENGTH AND FAITH OF A WOMAN WHO CHANGED A NATION by Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS by Isabel Wilkerson, read by Robin Miles Listen in to our interview to hear about the work behind her narrations, and what she’s imagining as she sits “behind the mic.” She is known for her biographies, history and fiction and fantasy audiobooks. Robin has won numerous Earphone Awards and is an AudioFile Golden Voice. Among our favorites are THE STONE SKY, AMERICAN STREET, and ANOTHER BROOKLYN. Once you’ve heard her interview, explore her full audiography and find your next great listen. For more free audiobook recommendations, sign up for AudioFile Magazine’s newsletter. On today’s episode are host Jo Reed and narrator guest Robin Miles.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode, a look back to 2004 when the 2018 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Jacqueline Woodson, visited the Festival. As we listen back to the 2004 Festival, we hear Jacqueline Woodson consider how her upbringing, including her family’s faith commitments, prepared her for life as a writer, a mother, and a humanitarian. Though she writes for all ages, Jacqueline Woodson has won just about every major award in children’s and young adult literature, including several ALA Best Books for Young Adults, multiple Coretta Scott King awards and honors, a number of Newbery Honors, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the National Book Award. The author of poetry, fiction, and memoir, Woodson is the author of many books, among them: Brown Girl Dreaming, Another Brooklyn (a National Book Award for Fiction nominee), The Other Side, Each Kindness, Coming On Home Soon, Feathers, Show Way, After Tupac and D Foster, and Miracle’s Boys. Rewrite Radio is a production of the Calvin Center for Faith and Writing, located on the campus of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI. Theme music is June 11th by Andrew Starr. Additional sound design by Alejandra Crevier. You can find more information about the Center and its signature event, the Festival of Faith and Writing, online at ccfw.calvin.edu and festival.calvin.edu and on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Amanda and Jenn discuss romantic comedies, books about strong women, non-murdery true crime, and more in this week's episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Sadie by Courtney Summers, Mirage by Somaiya Daud, and Chica Chocolate.   Feedback For Bess who wants full cast audiobooks: Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo both have great full cast recordings and I think they would work well for someone who liked His Dark Materials. --Insider Sibyl For the same person, anything by Tamora Pierce. At least one of her books was specifically written for audio and at least some were done by the company Full Cast Audio, who frankly has a lot of good middle grade fantasy stuff. --Insider Alanna   Questions   1. Hello! I’m a huge fan of your podcast! I was hoping you could help me find some books to get me through a sort of stressful time. For the next two months I’m going to be working three jobs in two states - with 7 hours of travel each way when I switch states every week! I’m hoping to find some lighthearted yet well-written romantic comedies to help me de-stress during the long bus rides. I am open to almost any genre, as long as it’s smartly written. I love Jane Austen (though not Austen retellings unless they involve zombies), Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Eleanor Oliphant, and This is Where I Leave You. Stardust is my favorite Neil Gaiman novel. I was less keen on Attachments and Eligible because they felt a bit heavy handed/cheesy. It’s been tough to find the right balance of lighthearted without being too sugary, so I would love any suggestions! Thanks! --Andrea   2. Hello, ladies! I'm looking for a book about strong women that has a specific flavor to it. I can't describe it exactly, but books that have that feeling that I've read are The Help and Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe. I love books that focus on women's relationships with each other, bonus points if it's historical fiction. Thanks in advance! --Therese   3. Hi, My mother retired a couple of years ago, and has been using some of her newfound free time to read a lot more. I am one of her main sources of reading recommendations, and am wondering if there is some stuff out there that I am missing that she might love. My recommendations tend to mostly be SFF, historical fiction, and non-fiction, with some YA that usually overlaps with SFF or historical. She also reads mysteries, but I am not looking for recommendations in that genre at this time. One of my main goals in my recommendations has been writer and character diversity: there are enough recommendation lists out there of books by straight white guys. We are also both white women, so I feel that it is important for us to educate ourselves on the stories and perspectives of people different from ourselves. Now, I am going to give a lot of examples of books she has read, because I worry about getting a recommendation back of something she has read. Of the books I have recommended, she has loved The Night Circus, A Tale for the Time Being, The Queen of the Night, Bad Feminist/ Difficult Women, The Signature of All Things, Tears We Cannot Stop, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, and Homegoing. She has also really liked books by Nnedi Okorafor, Connie Willis, Donna Tartt, Ruta Sepetys, Elizabeth Wein, Kate Atkinson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Junot Diaz, Stacey Lee, Carlos Ruiz Zafron, and Ursula Le Guin, as well as You Can’t Touch My Hair, The Library at Mount Char, Never Let Me Go, Swing Time, Greenglass House, We Need New Names, Americanah, Lab Girl, Another Brooklyn, Garden of Evening Mists, and Kindred. Books she just liked: Station Eleven, An Unnecessary Woman, Rise of the Rocket Girls, Everything Leads to You, Ninefox Gambit, Bone Witch, and Boy, Snow, Bird. Books already on my suggestion list: Shrill, Radium Girls, I contain Multitudes, Behold The Dreamers, Pushout: the Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, The New Jim Crow, Men Explain things to me, Pachinko, Inferior: How Science got Women Wrong, The Cooking Gene, the Winged Histories, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, The Hate U Give, Infomocracy, Citizen by Claudia Rankine, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, Uprooted, Speak by Louisa Hall, The Fifth Season, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, George by Alex Gino, Monster by Walter Dean Myers, Too Like the Lightning, Electric Arches, Labyrinth Lost, N.K. Jemisin, Zen Cho, and Jesmyn Ward. I would prefer backlist recommendations I may have missed, as I am pretty good at keeping up with new releases and determining if they seem interesting to either one or both of us. Thanks! --Mary   4. Hi! I'm wanting to read more fantasy and sci fi books as they're two of my favorite genres even though I haven't read a ton of books from either. I grew up reading Harry Potter. I've recently read The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss and Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb, and mostly enjoyed them but I was very disappointed in the lack of female characters. I would love to read a fantasy or scifi book where several of the main characters are women, and that isn't graphically violent and doesn't include explicit sex scenes. I've read and enjoyed the first two books in the Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer (reading 3 now) and Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series. Thanks!! --Valerie   5. Hi, I'm looking for an audiobook for the Dr. I work for. He and his family with children aging from 18 to 6 years of age travel by car often. I'm looking for an adventure even a true life adventure, that would capture the attention of the children as well as the adults without a lot of swearing as they are a religious family. I know it's last minute. Your help is much appreciated --Tiffany   6. I need a recommendation to fulfill the Read Harder Challenge #2, a book of true crime. So far a lot of what I'm finding is things about serial killers or school shootings and for various reasons, books about murders, shootings, extreme violence etc are too triggering for me to get into a this point in life. But surely there must be true crime books about other topics? If it were a movie, I'd think something like Oceans 11 or Catch Me if You Can. Books about abductions or kidnapping are okay as long as they aren't too grisly or graphic. Thanks in advance for your help! --Jessica   7. Greetings, Jenn and Amanda! This is perhaps oddly specific, but I have recently realized that a premise I always love, whether in movie, TV, or books, is “unlikely group stranded together somewhere due to inclement weather.” I have always loved huge snowstorms and the resulting inability to go anywhere or do anything but hang out at home and read. I love seeing or reading about characters in a similar situation. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a snowstorm that’s keeping the characters stranded, but that’s my favorite. I am open to any genre, but prefer romantic or other interesting interpersonal plot points to scary ones (i.e. group of people stranded by snowstorm deals with deranged killer on the loose). I love your show and I thank you! --Darcy   Books Discussed   For a Muse of Fire by Heidi Heilig (out Sept 25) Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn The Color Purple by Alice Walker Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela Bone & Bread by Saleema Nawaz (TW: eating disorder) The Five Daughters of the Moon by Leena Likitalo Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean Snowspelled by Stephanie Burgis (rec’d by Jess) The Big Bang Symphony by Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Jacqueline Woodson, National Ambassador of Children's Literature, winner of The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, acclaimed children's author of "Brown Girls Dreaming" introduces us to her first adult book, "Another Brooklyn".

Amanda and Jenn discuss Samoan literature, evil kids, contemporary YA, and more in this week's episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Clara Voyant by Rachelle Delaney and The 49th Mystic (Beyond the Circle Series #1) by Ted Dekker.   Questions 1. One of my best friends just got accepted to volunteer with the Peace Corps in Samoa. For her birthday, I want to give her a book that will get her (extra) hyped about the experience; she's already done a ton of research so I'm not necessarily looking for something informative so much as something that's just fun! I would love something focused on Samoa/South Pacific (that should probably skip the stranded-on-a-tropical-island trope because we're trying to be excited here). I was thinking of something more contemporary than Margaret Mead or Robert Louis Stevenson--maybe even something Own Voices but doesn't have to be. It doesn't necessarily have to relate to Peace Corps/volunteering/etc., but that would be cool too. She reads mostly fiction and some memoir but not a lot of straight non-fiction. Recently, she's been reading and enjoying books like "The Bees" by Laline Paull, "Less" by Andrew Sean Greer, and "Young Jane Young" by Gabrielle Zevin. Some of her forever favorites are "Don't Let's Go To the Dogs Tonight" by Alexandra Fuller, "The Girls from Corona Del Mar" by Rufi Thorpe, "Egg and Spoon" by Gregory Maguire, and anything Tom Robbins. Thank you! --Cel   2. I've always had depression, so at this point it seems like old hat, but recently I've been suffering with massive amounts of anxiety. Like, heart palpitating, ears rushing, feel dizzy and panicking over literally nothing. I am doing yoga, and I stopped eating meat, I journal every day, and I've read the self help books but honestly sometimes nothing helps except to distract myself until it goes away. What I'm looking for is basically a great audiobook (maybe a mystery?) with little to no real conflict that is fun. I like My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Lumberjanes, Steven Universe, and Adventure Time... I'm looking for something that is a sweet and fun romp but in no way causes the "are they gonna survive/are they sad that their families are dead" sort of anxiety that is both illogical and sadly my new reality. I loved Anne of Green Gables, but even that was kind of too much post- the first book. Note: I've read Hyperbole and a Half, Furiously Happy, The Year of Yes, and a lot of the other popular "self help" style books, but really what I'm looking for is good fun distraction. Please help my poor crazy brain, --W   3. Hello, I'm looking for fiction about evil children. One of my all-time favorite books is 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' by Lionel Shriver. I had an intense, visceral reaction to the title character in this novel, and the ending absolutely ripped my heart out. It made me want to read all I could about evil kids, but I wasn't able to find much. I read 'The Bad Seed' and 'Rosemary's Baby', and although those could both be classified as Horror, I was much more horrified by Kevin. I'm also hoping for something more contemporary. Do you guys have anything in mind that will fill my need for bad babies? Thank you! --Malarie   4. Hi there- I work in a bookstore and conduct a YA bookclub. We've read and loved books of multiple different genres. While we mostly stick to YA, we've recently started venturing into Sci-fi and Fantasy picks. Some of our past favorites have been Mosquitoland, Eleanor and Park, The Kids of Appetite, Cinder, Scorpio Races, House of the Scorpion, The Martian and Ready Player One. We've also read lots of Historical YA fiction like The Book Thief, Chains and Under a Painted Sky. While we've thoroughly enjoyed most of these books, we keep bumping into two problems with YA picks: 1. We enjoy the heavier themes of some contemporary and historical fic YA, like examinations on race, mental illness, and troubling family dynamics. But we've read too many that have described sexual violence (often familial) in very graphic detail. 2. Sometimes wading through the YA section, it's difficult to find books that are written well and don't follow the typical YA tropes. We're very tired of love triangles- especially in the fantasy and dystopian genres. Do you have any suggestions for a group of 15-16 year olds who love YA and Sci-fi/Fantasy but are tired of these particular topics? Bonus points for Fantasy picks. --Amber   5. Hi Jenn and Amanda! I have recently started a book club at my local non-profit for our volunteers. I work for Voices for Children (CASA), which assigns volunteers to look out for the best interests of children in foster care. So far we have read The Glass Castle, Evicted, and My Name is Leon. We have future picks of The Hate U Give, Dreamland, The Language of Flowers, and Lost Children of Wilder. Any suggestions for books about children in foster care/or any topics that deal with social justice/welfare (non-fiction/or fiction) would be great! --Emily   6. Hello! I am a devote reader of literary fiction but want to get into contemporary YA. Where's a girl to start? For guidance, some of my favourite reads of the past year include Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan series; What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky; Goodbye, Vitamin; The Secret History; A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing; and The Lonely Hearts Hotel. And though I haven't read much, my favourite YAs include This One Summer and Another Brooklyn. Help! --Caryn   7. Hey ladies! Recently, I have experienced some love life turmoil and being a big fan of book therapy, I was wondering if you knew of any books about unrequited crushes, or the friends to lover trope not working out. I prefer contemporary over fantasy if possible. Thank you! --Kristen     Books Discussed Welcome Home, edited by Eric Smith Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger Sons for the Return Home by Albert Wendt Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel (tw: domestic violence) Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh Cabin Pressure by John Finnemore (rec by Nita) N0s4A2 by Joe Hill The Dinner by Herman Koch, translated by Sam Garrett Dread Nation by Justina Ireland The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson Peas and Carrots by Tanita S. Davis Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L Sánchez (tw: self harm and suicide) Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel (tw: child abuse)

Author Jacqueline Woodson won the 2014 National Book Award for Brown Girl Dreaming, and this past January began her two-year tenure as the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature; her latest book Another Brooklyn was a New York Times best-seller. In this conversation, host Helga Davis sits down to talk with Woodson about family – the alternative one she was born into and the one she made for herself. Finding the ones with whom she can connect has been invaluable for her; here she shares how she made her community and how they have influenced her process. "For me the extended family is about having more parenting tools. [...] And then we have to make other decisions, we're a biracial family, right? We're a two-mom family, we're not going to send our kid to a school where they're the only kid of color, or the only kid in the class with two moms or two dads. So we had to, from a very early age, start investigating which schools are going to see my kid as wholly human." –Jacqueline Woodson Subscribe to Helga on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts, and follow Helga Davis on Facebook.

The One Book Finale will feature an interview with Jacqueline Woodson and Tamala Edwards, 6ABC Action News Co-Anchor.  The program will also feature a celebration of the poetry and music found in Another Brooklyn, with performances of original works--inspired by the novel--from Curtis Institute of Music composer Chelsea Komschlies, performed by Curtis Institute musicians, and from Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate Husnaa Hashim.    (recorded 3/14/2018)

This week we're celebrating gal pals in real life and in book life with the help of Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home. You'll find a review, some great suggestions for books about friends, and some friends from books. Books mentioned: The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson, Ghost World by Daniel Clowes, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, Turtles All the Way Down by John Green Our next discussion is going to be about A Week To Be Wicked by Tessa Dare. You can get it at the library or your local bookstore and read along with us.

We discuss We Are Okay by Nina La Cour Cash Money suggests Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson and the Cat Power song "Colors and the Kids." Nate suggests Just Listen by Sarah Dessen and the song "My Love For You Is Real" by Ryan Adams and the Cardinals. Kim suggests If I Stay by Gayle Forman. Nathan suggests The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. Lindsey suggests I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson. Katie suggests "Brian and Stewie" the seventeenth episode of the eighth season of the animated television show Family Guy.

Today we are excited to welcome award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson to the Why I Write podcast. Our Annual Convention will be happening this November in St. Louis, and we are excited to have Jacqueline as one of our Keynote Speakers. Register today so that you don’t miss out on any of the amazing content, meetings, and happenings. Jacqueline is the bestselling author of more than two dozen award-winning books for adults, young adults, middle graders, and children. Her New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming won the 2014 National Book Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor Award, an NAACP Image Award, and the Sibert Honor Award. She rightfully scolded me for not having read it yet. But after we finished recording I bought a copy, and it is waiting for me on my Kindle to read this summer. Her most recent novel, Another Brooklyn, illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to adulthood and renders a powerful, indelible, and fleeting friendship that united four young lives. We chatted about her writing and books, but we also discussed what her kids are reading and what advocacy means to her. She was packing for a weekend away with her family, so I’m thankful she had the time to talk to us for a little while before hitting the road. Be sure you register to see her at our Annual Convention after listening to the episode. Happy listening!

With Another Brooklyn, acclaimed children’s author Jacqueline Woodson creates an adult novel that reads like poetry.

With Another Brooklyn, acclaimed children’s author Jacqueline Woodson creates an adult novel that reads like poetry

The holidays bring many wonderful thing to Scholastic, chief among them, the employee book fair! There's something for readers of every age, from picture books, coloring books, and cookbooks, to how-to books, graphic novels, and memoirs. In this episode, we talked with colleagues who are shopping and volunteering at the fair to find out what are the must-have books this holiday season. Here's a list of all the books mentioned in this episode with links to their Goodreads pages: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen One Plus One by Jojo Moyes Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay by J.K. Rowling Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Movie Tie-in books Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, Jack Thorne Harry Potter and the Sorcerer' Stone Illustrated Edition by J.K. Rowling, illustrated by Jim Kay Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Illustrated Edition by J.K. Rowling, illustrated by Jim Kay Slide and Find Animals by Roger Priddy My First Book of Colors by Scholastic Duck and Goose Let's Dance by Tad Hills and Lauren Savage Goosebumps: Slappy's Revenge by R.L. Stine Goosebumps: Night of the Living Dummy by R.L. Stine Give Yourself Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard Red by Michael Hall Smile by Raina Telgemeier Amulet series by Kazu Kibuishi Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts Pinball Science Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer Heartless by Marissa Meyer Untwine by Edwidge Danticat Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition by Margot Lee Shetterly Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondō The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz Holding up the Universe by Jennifer Niven Another Brooklyn by Jaqueline Woodson Pirates Love Underpants by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort Izzy the Ice Cream Fairy by Tim Bugbird The Airport Book by Lisa Brown Special thanks: Music composed by Lucas Elliot Eberl Sound mix and editing by Daniel Jordan and Christopher Johnson Produced by Emily Morrow  

The holidays bring many wonderful thing to Scholastic, chief among them, the employee book fair! There's something for readers of every age, from picture books, coloring books, and cookbooks, to how-to books, graphic novels, and memoirs. In this episode, we talked with colleagues who are shopping and volunteering at the fair to find out what are the must-have books this holiday season. Here's a list of all the books mentioned in this episode with links to their Goodreads pages: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen One Plus One by Jojo Moyes Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay by J.K. Rowling Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Movie Tie-in books Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, Jack Thorne Harry Potter and the Sorcerer' Stone Illustrated Edition by J.K. Rowling, illustrated by Jim Kay Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Illustrated Edition by J.K. Rowling, illustrated by Jim Kay Slide and Find Animals by Roger Priddy My First Book of Colors by Scholastic Duck and Goose Let’s Dance by Tad Hills and Lauren Savage Goosebumps: Slappy’s Revenge by R.L. Stine Goosebumps: Night of the Living Dummy by R.L. Stine Give Yourself Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard Red by Michael Hall Smile by Raina Telgemeier Amulet series by Kazu Kibuishi Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts Pinball Science Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer Heartless by Marissa Meyer Untwine by Edwidge Danticat Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition by Margot Lee Shetterly Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondō The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz Holding up the Universe by Jennifer Niven Another Brooklyn by Jaqueline Woodson Pirates Love Underpants by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort Izzy the Ice Cream Fairy by Tim Bugbird The Airport Book by Lisa Brown Special thanks: Music composed by Lucas Elliot Eberl Sound mix and editing by Daniel Jordan and Christopher Johnson Produced by Emily Morrow  

Author Jacqueline Woodson discusses her new novel, Another Brooklyn, which she calls a love song to Black girlhood. We also talk about the techniques she uses to evoke a dream-like narrative and the scene that was heartbreaking to write.

Jacqueline Woodson, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. One of the leading writers of children's and young adult fiction, Jacqueline Woodson's latest adult novel, “Another Brooklyn,” tells the story of four African American girls growing up in Brooklyn during the 1970s, focusing on August, a transplant from the South with a single father, growing up during a turbulent era and struggling to find herself. “Another Brooklyn” is a finalist for this year's National Book Award for fiction. The post Jacqueline Woodson appeared first on KPFA.

Kim Racon holds a joint discussion with Jacqueline Woodson, author of ANOTHER BROOKLYN, and Ann Patchett, author of Commonwealth. Learn more: https://www.harperacademic.com/book/9780062359995/another-brooklyn/ and https://www.harperacademic.com/book/9780062491831/commonwealth/.

Another Brooklyn, award-winning Young Adult novelist Jacqueline Woodson's first novel for adults in twenty years, tells the story of childhood friends as they grow into women. 

We came back! This month, we read Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn and loved it. The book has been long-listed for a National Book Award in fiction and it’s well deserved. Join us for a conversation about the book’s beautiful descriptions of black girlhood and the joys of “sneaky writing.” Have you read Another Brooklyn? Tweet us what you thought of the book at @blackchicklit. Links: National Book Award Winners in Fiction Jacqueline Woodson’s ‘Another Brooklyn’ is a gauzy, lyrical fever dream of a book (best headline ever.) Books mentioned in this episode: We the Animals, by Justin Torres Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson The Game Between Love and Death, by Martha Brockenbrough Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, by Stephen King An Untamed State, by Roxane Gay Bad Feminist, by Roxane Gay