Podcasts about beautiful revolutionary

In this episode Dylan Rodríguez returns to the podcast.  Dylan Rodríguez is a teacher, scholar, organizer and collaborator who has maintained a day job as a Professor at the University of California-Riverside since 2001. His lifework focuses on liberationist, anticolonial, and abolitionist confrontations with the antiblack, colonial, and white supremacist violences that permeate the ongoing Civilization project. He was elected to serve as President of the American Studies Association in 2020-2021, and in 2020 was named to the inaugural class of Freedom Scholars. Since 2021, he has served as Co-Director of the Center for Ideas and Society. Since the late-1990s, Dylan has participated as a founding member of organizations like Critical Resistance, Abolition Collective, Critical Ethnic Studies Association, Cops Off Campus, Scholars for Social Justice, and the UCR Department of Black Study, among others. He is the author of three books, most recently White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide (Fordham University Press, 2021), which won the 2022 Frantz Fanon Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. In January of 2021 we published an episode with Rodríguez on his most recent book White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide. In that conversation along with many of the other themes and topics from that book, Rodriguez began to frame out some thoughts with us on counterinsurgency. This past fall on Black Agenda Report, Dylan published an interview with Roberto Sirvent entitled "Insurgency and Counterinsurgency."  In this episode we pick up that conversation, talking about counterinsurgency as a totality, as a curriculum, and as epistemic. We get into various elements of what that means to Rodriguez, and about the composition of the counterinsurgent bloc. We also talk about how we recognize it, resist it and embrace beautiful revolutionary wildness. For this month our book for incarcerated readers is Walter Rodney's Decolonial Marxism. A big thank you to Verso Books for donating the copies. We do need to raise some money for shipping for those and there's a link in the show notes where you can pitch in to that effort over at Massive Bookshop. We also have a big goal for this month, we're hoping to add 40 patrons for the show. Despite meeting our goal in February, we actually had more non-renewals than new patrons for the month. So we are hoping we can make up for that in March. Our show is totally supported by listeners like you, we don't sell ads and we don't run on any grants. So if you appreciate our work and get something out of it, then become a patron of the show for as little as $1 a month at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism Links:  More of Dylan's books, edited collections, and writings (in collections) can be found at Massive Bookshop. Dylan Rodríguez can be reached on Twitter (@dylanrodriguez), Instagram (dylanrodriguez73), and Facebook.  

*Content Warning. This episode contains discussion of mass murder and suicide*Carolyn Layton had an idyllic childhood. Daughter of a socially progressive Methodist minister father and peace activist mother, she grew up believing passionately in social justice and racial equality. After marrying Larry Layton, a conscientious objector, the two began a new life together, a life founded on their shared principles of equality, freedom and social progress. Then they found an incredible new church, that seemed to share and espouse the values they held most dear: The People's Temple. As Carolyn became progressively more involved with the organisation and its charismatic leader, Jim Jones, she started to change, and it wasn't for the better.Join us as we chat to Laura Elizabeth Woollett, author of Beautiful Revolutionary, about how Carolyn became implicated in the greatest loss of American life until September 11, and the complexities of how we remember the mistress of Jim Jones.If you want more, be sure to pick up a copy of Beautiful Revolutionary wherever you buy good books! We also highly recommend The Love of a Bad Man, her short story collection imagining the lives of the girlfriends, wives and mistresses of history's worst men.If you want to support Deviant Women, follow us on: PatreonTwitter @DeviantWomenFacebook @deviantwomenpodcastInstagram @deviantwomenpodcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Bride Test, Somewhere Only We Know, Furious Hours, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Amazon Kindle Unlimited, Always Smile by Alice Kuipers from KCP Loft, and The Invited by Jennifer McMahon. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna: A Novel by Juliet Grames Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo The Bride Test by Helen Hoang The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday by Rob Walker Soon the Light Will Be Perfect: A Novel by Dave Patterson Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer What we're reading: A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table by Rick Bragg More books out this week: Beautiful Revolutionary by Laura Elizabeth Woollett Such a Perfect Wife: A Novel (Bailey Weggins Mysteries) by Kate White The East End by Jason Allen Jaclyn Hyde by Annabeth Bondor-Stone and Connor White Only Ever Her by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen Monsieur Mediocre: One American Learns the High Art of Being Everyday French by John von Sothen The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones Exiles of Eden by Ladan Ali Osman The Missing of Clairdelune: Book Two of The Mirror Visitor Quartet by Christelle Dabos and Hildegarde Serle How We Disappeared: A Novel by Jing-Jing Lee Shouting at the Rain by Lynda Mullaly Hunt Original Prin by Randy Boyagoda New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent by Margaret Busby Just South of Home by Karen Strong Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations by Craig Ferguson Hurricane Season by Nicole Melleby Outside the Gates of Eden by Lewis Shiner The Lingering by Sji Holliday The Last Time I Saw You: A Novel by Liv Constantine Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back by Gary John Bishop The Yankee Widow by Linda Lael Miller The Woman in the Blue Cloak by Deon Meyer How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox Finale: A Caraval Novel by Stephanie Garber Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World by Lucy Ives Finding Orion by John David Anderson Nocturna by Maya Motayne The Guest Book: A Novel by Sarah Blake No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder The Body in the Wake: A Faith Fairchild Mystery by Katherine Hall Page The Unpassing: A Novel by Chia-Chia Lin Cinderella Liberator by Rebecca Solnit and Arthur Rackham Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki, Rosemary Valero-O'Connell (Illustrator) Love from A to Z by S. 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Laura Elizabeth Woollett is the guest. The novel is Beautiful Revolutionary, a retelling of the events that led up to the mass suicide at The Peoples Temple. We talk about the appeal of cults, method writing, breaking through as a young writer and research. Laura's writing is crisp and evocative, and Beautiful Revolutionary was one of my favourite books of 2018.

Author of "The Love of a Bad Man", Laura Elizabeth Woollett, talks to Sharelle Fellows about her thrilling novel "Beautiful Revolutionary", which explores what happens to a young couple caught in the orbit of Jim Jones and The People's Temple. A fictional take on one of history's most unbelievable and tragic moments. SHOW NOTES: Mudgee Readers' Festivalwww.mudgeereaders.comTwitter / Facebook @mudgeereaders Writes4Festivals www.writes4women.comFacebook @Writes4FestivalsTwitter and Instagram @w4wpodcast Pamela Cookwww.pamelacook.com.auFacebook - @pamelacookauthorTwitter - @PamelaCookAU Kel Butler - Listen Up Podcasting www.listenuppodcasting.com.auTwitter @KelB / Facebook @kelbutler Laura Elizabeth Woollettwww.lauraelizabethwoollett.comFacebook @laura.e.woollett

For March, Jaclyn and Kendra, with special guest Winnie Loo, talk about women writers from Australia and the surrounding archipelago! Find a full version of the show for this episode on our website. Use code READINGWOMEN15 to get 15% off your purchase in our Reading Women Store. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Things MentionedThe Stella Prize Books MentionedTerra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman (Small beer Press) Q&A with Claire G. Coleman Her Father’s Daughter by Alice Pung (Black Inc.) Beautiful Revolutionary by Laura Elizabeth Woollett (Scribe) Can You Tolerate This? by Ashleigh Young (Riverhead) Ali Smith’s Lecture on Katherine Mansfield and Virginia WoolfGuest PicksEat First, Talk Later by Beth Yahp (Random House Australia) The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein (St. Martin’s) Currently ReadingHow Long ‘Til Black Future Month by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit) Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli (Knopf) Our Guest: Winnie Loo Instagram | Goodreads Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura’s Elizabeth Woollett’s novel, Beautiful Revolutionary, draws heavily on the story of the Jonestown Massacre and the People’s Temple. Through the eyes of a young couple and others, Laura examines what attracted people to Jim Jones and how a search for meaning can become something more sinister. In this recording Veronica Sullivan and Laura discuss Beautiful Revolutionary (Scribe Publications) and the appeal of this particular story. This was a Carlton After Hours event. You can find or place a hold on Beautiful Revolutionary at your local branch of Yarra Libraries. Yarra Libraries Recommends these items from our collection Beautiful Revolutionary – Laura Elizabeth Woollett The Love Of A Bad Man – Laura Elizabeth Woollett The Love of A Bad Man (e-resource) – Laura Elizabeth Woollett The Family – Chris Johnston The Girls – Emma Cline The Girls – Emma Cline (e-audiobook) The Girls – Emma Cline (e-book)

While many remember the 1978 Jonestown massacre as a dark monument to the power of a single man’s paranoia and fanaticism, the tale of Jim Jones’ lover, Carolyn Layton, reveals a more complicated narrative—and a more frightening truth. Carolyn was a bubbly young woman who believed in pacifism and political engagement, but when she met Jim Jones, she became an unsmiling woman would do anything for Jones’ cause—including death. Was this a personality change, or had Carolyn been a secret fanatic all along? Author Laura Elizabeth Woollett comes on the podcast to tell us Carolyn’s long-forgotten story, which she covers in her latest novel, Beautiful Revolutionary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh with crime writer Ann Cleeves, historian David Hunt, memoirist Vicki Laveau-Harvie and bookseller Jennifer Stephens - and a whole lot of revolutionary novels.

'Beautiful Revolutionary' is an engrossing historical fiction by Laura Elizabeth Woollett, explaining the charismatic Jim Jones and why so many followed him to their death.  We are taken on a mythical ride in Rebecca Lim's 'The Relic of the Blue Dragon' when an ancient Chinese vase is broken releasing a girl who has been trapped for two thousand years.