Podcasts about brit bennet

Brit Bennett’s book The Vanishing Half was on a lot of best-of lists in 2020. Though spanning the second half of the 20th century, the novel speaks to questions about race and identity that have been central to national conversations for the last two years. In that novel and her other writing, Bennett deals with the bonds of family, the importance of storytelling, and nature of identity. We talked to Bennett about her essays and novels in front of an audience of students at Grant High School in Portland in February 2022.

In honor of Black History Month, Kamri Philippi shared with us about Brit Bennet and how she has been specifically impacted by Brit's work as an author.

Brit Bennett's book The Vanishing Half was on a lot of best-of lists in 2020. Though spanning the second half of the 20th century, the novel speaks to questions about race and identity that have been central to national conversations for the last two years. In that novel and her other writing, Bennett deals with the bonds of family, the importance of storytelling, and nature of identity. We talk to Bennett about her essays and novels in front of an audience of students at Grant High School in Portland.

For this week's episode I'm joined by Tabitha from @bookmarkedbytab to chat about Brit Bennet's debut novel, The Mothers. This book was especially exciting as The Vanishing Half was one our debut episodes, and Brit Bennett is beloved around these parts. We'll be discussing the role the title plays in the novel, the major disappointment that is Luke's character, and the complexity of Aubrey and Nadia's friendship.  Content Warning: This book deals with sensitive themes such as assault, abortion, and suicide. We do not go into detail, but we do reference these topics a few times throughout the episode. Where to find us: https://linktr.ee/BookedSolid Donation of the Week: A list of fundraisers to support the families of the Buffalo mass shooting victims can be found here.

The Unthank sisters, writers Lucy Holland and Oyinkan Braithwaite and historian and feminist activist Sally Alexander join Shahidha Bari for a conversation about what it means to be a sister on International Women's Day 2022. You could make a family from recent novels depicting sisterhood from Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister the Serial Killer, to Daisy Johnson's Sisters and Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half but literary sisterhood goes back via Jane Austen and the Brontës to Chekhov, King Lear's daughters, Cinderella and Greek myths about the seven sisters who formed the Pleiades, or Antigone and Ismene. And if you're looking at feminist history the idea of the sisterhood has been a cornerstone of political action. Is it right that sisters will have a particular bond and sound if they perform music together? All of this and more in tonight's Free Thinking conversation. The Unthank sisters will be on tour with their latest album Sorrows Away visiting a range of venues from Norwich, Poole, Northampton, Middlesborough, Belfast, Edinburgh, Dublin and a range of places in between starting on March 13th in Lincoln Lucy Holland has written Sistersong set in Anglo-Saxon Britannia. She also presents Breaking the Glass Slipper, a podcast celebrating women in genre. You can hear a reading of Oyinkan's novel My Sister the Serial Killer by Weruche Opia on BBC Sounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/p08q6q19 Sally Alexander, Professor Emerita at Goldsmiths, is founding editor of the History Workshop Journal and is working on a history of psycho-analysis. Producer: Kevin Core You might also be interested in the most recent episode of Radio 3's Words and Music on Sisters, with its curated playlist of readings and music of all kinds ranging from Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Brit Bennet and Arifa Akbar to Fanny Mendelssohn, Errollyn Wallen, Hildegard of Bingen and the Labeque Sisters performing Ravel. And tomorrow's programme explores new research into women's history. And there's a playlist on the Free Thinking programme website called Women in the World https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p084ttwp

This month we read and review The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet! Like all of our reviews, the first part is spoiler free. Here's a little about The Vanishing Half: The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect?Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.We hope you enjoy this episode!Do you have a book you'd like us to review on this show? Want to give us some feedback? Send us an email at badassliteraturesociety@gmail.comIf you don't already, follow us on Instagram and FacebookAll music from hooksounds.comArt by Justin Miller DesignCheck us out here!

Born 1989, and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett earned her undergraduate degree at Stanford university. She went on to earn her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan. Her debut novel The Mothers was a New York Times bestseller, and her second novel The Vanishing Half was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Her essays have been featured in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Jezebel. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/katherine-hutchinson-hayes/support

We start season 3 with a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing in Brit Bennet's award-winning novel ‘The Vanishing Half'. Episode Timepoints: 00:00 – Intro 00:20 – Life Updates 02:10 – An Introduction to the Author 07:10 – A Discussion of The Vanishing Half 56:40 – The Book We Will Be Reading Next Time 58:00 – Outro Other Books Mentioned in This Episode: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow Why I'm No Longer Talking About Race to White People by Reni Eddo-Lodge Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo Links: Brit Bennett on Goodreads Reading Materials on Goodreads Lucia on Goodreads Corrie on Goodreads Reading Materials on Instagram (run by Lucia with minimal input from Corrie!!) Thank you for listening! You can send your feedback, thoughts, questions and book recommendations to us at reading.materials.podcast@gmail.com.

Brit Bennett's book The Vanishing Half was on a lot of best-of lists in 2020. Though spanning the second half of the 20th century, the novel speaks to questions about race and identity that have been central to national conversations for the last two years. In that novel and her other writing, Bennett deals with the bonds of family, the importance of storytelling, and nature of identity. We talk to Bennett about her essays and novels in front of an audience of students at Grant High School in Portland.

Brit Bennett recently joined Claire Nichols in front of live audience at His Majesty's Theatre as part of the Perth Festival of Literature and Ideas. Together they discussed latest book The Vanishing Half, the complexities of race relations in America, her writing process and making the cover of Time Magazine.

Lynn Lobash, associate director of reader services at the New York Public Library, shares the most-checked-out books in 2021 in all the boroughs and listeners call in with their own, and their book club's, favorites.  The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet tops the list for Manhattan and Brooklyn – while The Four Winds by Kristen Hannah won out in Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island.    

Some scintillating takes for listeners on season 3's episode 3 of The Lavender Menace! Including but not limited to: are "fake bisexuals" real/bad/an issue? (Short answer is no. The issue is always heterosexism.) Is Taylor Swift a good person? Are Letterboxd reviewers the worst? Renaissance and Sunny fervently defend Taylor Swift's album 'Reputation' in response to our 17 year old gaylor listener's hot take submission, discuss the political implications of her potential "coming out" (which we argue, has already occurred), and how she operates as an artist in the world we live in. After the regularly scheduled hot take portion of the pod, Renaissance discusses how the recently released Rebecca Hall adaptation of Nella Larsen's Passing, available on Netflix, portrays inter-community Black issues in a nuanced and intelligent way that many audience members are seeming to miss. Sunny looks at Passing from a comparative analysis perspective as someone who read and loved the classic Harlem Renaissance book the film is based on. In cross-referencing fictionalized experiences to real life people's history, as recorded in the seminal nonfiction book Black Metropolis by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton Jr.'s chapter 7, titled "Crossing The Color Line" (available to read for free on Archive.org), Sunny and Renaissance discuss the historical and pop cultural relevancy of the questions Passing brings up about racial identity, visibility and Blackness, and the legitimate unique racial experiences regarding cross-cultural and boundary crossing that people experience. Renaissance also compares the experience of watching the film to reading the Toni Morrison short story, Recitatif, in their similar authorial manipulation of racial perception for the narratives' consumer. And transitioning into the regularly scheduled third part of the podcast, Sunny recommends the semi recently released and critically acclaimed Brit Bennet novel The Vanishing Half, which follows two sisters over the course of their lives and the varying racial experiences they have as white passing Black women in 20th century American society. Renaissance recommends the movie Aimée and Jaguar (1999) dir. Max Färberböck for the lesbian period piece goodness of it all, as well as its portrayal of the dynamics and contradictions of racial/ethnic perception in the context of another 20th century caste society- Nazi Germany. Thanks for being a listener! Support us by becoming a patron at Patreon.com/TheLavenderMenace, following us on socials: @thelavenderpod on Twitter and Letterboxd, @thelavendermenacepod on Instagram and Tik Tok, & The Lavender Menace Podcast on YouTube. You can submit your hot take to be featured on the next episode by emailing us at thelavendermenacepodcast@gmail.com or messaging us on any of our social media accounts!

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet follows the lives of two identical twins.  One lives a lie while the other makes poor decisions.  Both of their choices would ultimately affect their future and their children's future.  We often try to control our journey in life, going through a cycle of lessons learned, regrets, lies, and even successes. But what if it was all to put us on the road of destiny.  This book inspired me to revisit some conversations that I would have told my younger self.   I leave you with practical tools, tips, and strategies to refuel and refocus your mind.  

Four friends of varying skin tones sit down to talk candidly about colourism and identity through our experiences growing up as teenagers in the UK, in the 90s to the present day. We talk about the importance of language and our collective responsibility toward learning and unlearning. Looking ahead to the next generation, we ask how we can pass on as much of our learning as possible for them to build upon?   If you are affected by anything discussed in this episode, we have provided links to organisations you may find helpful at the bottom of these show notes.   Mentions: Kristel's writing/appearances: https://mediadiversified.org/2018/04/26/we-need-to-talk-about-light-skinned-privilege/ https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/02/mixed-up-yes-you-can-still-be-racist-even-if-you-have-mixed-race-kids-10840351/ https://mediadiversified.org/2018/02/27/stormzy-should-be-grateful-tell-the-daily-mail-shut-up/ https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/cat-person-short-story-new-yorker-viral-what-men-should-take-learn-sexism-sex-consent-a8105421.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8rqQUaz3Hk&t=1857s   Why the term ‘white passing' can be problematic for mixed-race people: https://metro.co.uk/2021/05/06/what-is-white-passing-and-is-it-problematic-for-mixed-race-people-14522039/ Halu Halo: https://www.haluhalo.org/ The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet: https://amzn.to/3lN8njE  The Mixed Bloom Room: https://mixedbloomroom.com/ The Space Between Black and White by Esuantsiwa Jane Goldsmith: https://amzn.to/3voXAiY The film Passing directed by Rebecca Hall, based on the 1920s novel Passing by Nella Larsen https://www.amazon.co.uk/Passing-Nella-Larsen/dp/0593437845/ref=pd_lpo_1?pd_rd_i=0593437845&psc=1 Book Layers of Blackness by Dr Deborah Gabriel FREE here https://layersofblackness.deborahgabriel.com/   Connect with Karla: Website: www.artolution.org  Email: misskjt1@gmail.com IG: @artolution @kj3t (private profile so DM first)   Connect with Kristel: IG: @kristel_etc Twitter: @the_vajabond    Connect with us: Ama Rouge Website: wearewildwithin.com IG: @powerup.podcast @ama.rouge, @wearewildwithin @readwithrougebookclub @rougedoesfood LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ama-rouge-870b60138 FB: AmaRougemoves   Ella Mesma Website: www.ellamesma.co.uk, www.mayagandaia.com, www.businessyoga.co.uk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ella-mesma-b6071320/ IG: @powerup.podcast @Ellamesma @BusinessYoga @Maya_Gandaia FB:@EllaMesma @MayaGandaia @BusinessYogaUK   Music by Tomo Carter IG: @tomocarter   Everything else brought to you by us, the PowerUp! power team   If you are or have been affected by any of the topics we've discussed in this episode here are some organisations you may find helpful:   www.oursocialtherapy.com https://www.blackmindsmatteruk.com/ www.mind.org.uk  www.ptsduk.org https://www.haluhalo.org/ https://mixedbloomroom.com/

In the novel “The Vanishing Half” by Brit Bennett, twin sisters fleeing their small town life, head to New Orleans where one sister discovers she can pass as white. Here begins a fracture that will separate them in this story of sisterhood and black personal identity.

I don't need to like the books my guests choose – the whole point is, it's their favorite book. Not mine. But today someone chose one of my all-time favorites, a book that I honestly think will be taught in lit classes for generations. Today I'm talking to about Brit Bennet's “The Mothers” with Taevia Norris, the brilliant mind behind Books and Brown Sugar Co., an apparel line designed amplify Black literature. Taevia and I talked about diversifying our bookshelves, and how a good writer helps us relate to a character emotionally even if we have no exterior connection to him or her. Bonus: Taevia has the best idea for how The Mothers should be made on film.   Support the Best Book Ever Podcast on Patreon   Follow the Best Book Ever Podcast on Instagram or on the Best Book Ever Website   Host: Julie Strauss Website/Instagram   Guest: Taevia Norris Website/Taevia's Instagram/Books and Brown Sugar Co Instagram   Do you know a young person who'd like to appear on the 2nd Annual Kids/YA Gift Guide Episode? GO HERE!   Discussed in this episode: The Mothers by Brit Bennett The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins Seven Days in June by Tia Williams   Discussed in our Patreon Exclusive Clip: @diversespines on Instagram @WellReadBlackGirl on Instagram Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett   (Note: Some of the above links are affiliate links, meaning I get a few bucks off your purchase at no extra expense to you. Anytime you shop for books, you can use my affiliate link on Bookshop, which also supports Indie Bookstores around the country. If you're shopping for everything else – clothes, office supplies, gluten-free pasta, couches – you can use my affiliate link for Amazon. Thank you for helping to keep the Best Book Ever Podcast in business!)

I don't need to like the books my guests choose – the whole point is, it's their favorite book. Not mine. But today someone chose one of my all-time favorites, a book that I honestly think will be taught in lit classes for generations. Today I'm talking to about Brit Bennet's “The Mothers” with Taevia Norris, the brilliant mind behind Books and Brown Sugar Co., an apparel line designed amplify Black literature. Taevia and I talked about diversifying our bookshelves, and how a good writer helps us relate to a character emotionally even if we have no exterior connection to him or her. Bonus: Taevia has the best idea for how The Mothers should be made on film.   Support the Best Book Ever Podcast on Patreon   Follow the Best Book Ever Podcast on Instagram or on the Best Book Ever Website   Host: Julie Strauss Website/Instagram   Guest: Taevia Norris Website/Taevia's Instagram/Books and Brown Sugar Co Instagram   Do you know a young person who'd like to appear on the 2nd Annual Kids/YA Gift Guide Episode? GO HERE!   Discussed in this episode: The Mothers by Brit Bennett The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins Seven Days in June by Tia Williams   Discussed in our Patreon Exclusive Clip: @diversespines on Instagram @WellReadBlackGirl on Instagram Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett   (Note: Some of the above links are affiliate links, meaning I get a few bucks off your purchase at no extra expense to you. Anytime you shop for books, you can use my affiliate link on Bookshop, which also supports Indie Bookstores around the country. If you're shopping for everything else – clothes, office supplies, gluten-free pasta, couches – you can use my affiliate link for Amazon. Thank you for helping to keep the Best Book Ever Podcast in business!)

After reviewing their three favourite books on the longlist Kieran and Isabelle are back for a bumper round up of everything else they read on the Women's Prize Longlist for 2021. Some we loved (Susanna Clarke), some we didn't (Dawn French... sorry) and a few we're still dithering about even on the podcast (Patricia Lockwood). Books mentioned: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet, Consent by Annabel Lyon, Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller, Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi, No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood, Because of You by Dawn French, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.

Geraldine & Rob discuss the best selling novel, The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet. Join them as they discuss the intricacies of race, family, and the unexpected beauty of when a book turns out to be gay! Astonishing, heartfelt, complex and powerful- The Vanishing Half is one of the best books we've read all year!

January Jones takes a hammer to some rattlesnakes (10:00) while Khloe Kardashian takes a totally unfiltered video to prove she's still prettier than another unfiltered photo making the rounds (12:34). The MET Gala is back on (21:39) and so is Game of Thrones...sort of (23:35). For Love it or Hate it (27:13), Matt recommends The Mothers by Brit Bennet and Shelby points out Two Distant Strangers on Netflix. Be sure to check out our NEW merch at psyourewrong.square.site!

The author discusses her latest book The Vanishing Half, the complexities of race relations in America, her writing process and making the cover of Time Magazine.

The author discusses her latest book The Vanishing Half, the complexities of race relations in America, her writing process and making the cover of Time Magazine.

This week the girls believe that they can, but they don't. We're diving deep into grace and giving ourselves a break and the struggle to fight against perfection over progress. Mikkey's picks this week: The Universe Has Your Back by Gabrielle Bernstein, Healthy Snacks, Self Love Babe Podcast with Jenn Jaxx, Relationship Affirmations, Write Yourself a Love Letter. Jenna's picks: Hiking, Follow @phenomenal and @meena, The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet, When They See Us, Be Your Own Advocate. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thechampagneproblemspod/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thechampagneproblemspod/support

Why do we like memes so much? We have a chat around individual and collective stories of memes and the phenomenon that comes with them. We all share and laugh at pictures of strangers with funny captions on them, but who are these strangers and how has this strange new form of fame affected them? HIGHLIGHTS TV & FILM The Serpent (BBC Show) Schitt's Creek (Netflix Show) Grand Designs (Channel 4 Show) Lupin (Netflix Show) Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Film - available for streaming) MUSIC & PODCASTS Who Am I? by Pale Waves (Album) The Media Show. Episode: How ITV News Reported First-Hand on the Storming of Congress (BBC Radio 4 & Podcast) BOOKS & ARTICLES The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet (book) A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (book) Paul Mccartney for The Sunday Times: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/culture/paul-mccartney-interview-on-recording-mccartney-iii-and-his-friendship-with-john-lennon-q8s5n0b58

This week the Trash Trio is playing Truth or Drink as an excuse to get drunk without looking like useless drunkards. This is also the last episode in 2020. 'Tis has been short of impossible to pull through because The Trash Trio were still hounded by work even though it's already the end of December. Nevertheless, we persevere and we made this episode, aptly released on 31 December 2020. Yay? -- Notable mention this episode: TV Series: Brooklyn 99, Peaky Blinders, and The Good Place. Books: A Wizard of Earthsea and Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin, Anxious People by Fredrik Backman, The Call of the Wild by Jack London, Twelve Years of Slave by Solomon Northup, The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, Bad Blood: Secret and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, Ten Women by Marcela Serrano, Circe by Madeline Miller, The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura, Kimetsu no Yaiba series by Koyoharu Gotouge, So Sad Today: Personal Essays by Melissa Broder, and The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet. -- Thank you for sticking around with us in 2020.

I can't wait to share with you The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet! Tune in to hear about the main characters, three important themes, & how this book is structured for your reading pleasure. The themes in this book are timely for our culture and nation today. You don't want to miss this storyline. It might just be the best entry point for your own personal reflection on tough but necessary topics.

This week's episode covers the healing, full, buck moon energies, being better witches, our coronavirus stress, Jesse Jackson's beef with Obama, a partial review of Brit Bennet book, The Vanishing Half, what the hell is going on with Sammy Sosa, why we don't f*ck with the police, the Nordic model of giving no f*cks, and as always, the vibe in these streets. Oh, and Dallas is lit, y'all!

January Jones takes a hammer to some rattlesnakes (10:00) while Khloe Kardashian takes a totally unfiltered video to prove she's still prettier than another unfiltered photo making the rounds (12:34). The MET Gala is back on (21:39) and so is *Game of Thrones*...sort of (23:35). For Love it or Hate it (27:13), Matt recommends *The Mothers* by Brit Bennet and Shelby points out *Two Distant Strangers* on Netflix. Be sure to check out our NEW merch at psyourewrong.square.site!