Podcast appearances and mentions of christine pride

Welcome to the launch of our new mini-series (Re) Committed where we dive into stories of love lost and found again when people least expect it. This series was inspired by Christine Pride's new novel, All the Men I've Loved Again, which is based on her own second chance romance when she fell in love with the same two men in her twenties and again in her forties. Today we hear Christine's story of how she fell for her college boyfriend and then a handsome young TV producer when she moved to New York City. How she lost touch with both as she built her own career and how she reconnected with the same men twenty years later during the pandemic and found true love with one of them.Buy Christine's book All the Men I've Loved Again, here.

Today's episode is a suggestion by a lovely listener, where Jess and Lauren share Reccos of books similar to some all time faves!Book onto the Book Reccos Reading Retreat and find out all the details HERE!Books Mentioned in this episode:Final Revival of Opal & NevMe Before You by Jojo MoyesLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste NgThis Motherless Land by Nikki MaySilver Sparrow by Tayari JonesVanishing Half by Brit BennettAsk Again Yes by Mary Beth KeaneEverything I Know About Love by Dolly AldertonYellowface by R. F. KuangOne of the Good Guys by Araminta HallWe Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride & Jo PiazzaThe Girl on The Train by Paula HawkinsBlue Hour by Paula HawkinsBook Reccos Website, Shop & newsletter: Don't forget to check out our website and checkout the Book Reccos shop to purchase your very own Book Reccos Reading Journal! And whilst you're there sign up to our newsletter to receive a monthly email from us to fill you in on our favourite reccos of the month. Head to www.bookreccos.com Get in Touch: Instagram: @bookreccos Email: hello@bookreccos.comWebsite: www.bookreccos.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Spring 2024 Book Preview with Catherine of Gilmore Guide to Books!   In this episode, Catherine and I share 12 of our most anticipated books releasing in April and May.   This post contains affiliate links through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). Announcement One of the many benefits to joining our Patreon Community is that you get access to several bonus podcast episode series, including Book Preview Extras! In these episodes, Catherine and I share at least 4 bonus books we are excited about that we did not share in the big show preview episode. Get more details about all the goodies available to all patrons (Stars and Superstars) and sign up here! Highlights Catherine is fully embracing spring with some lighter, fun reading. Sarah is joining the fun with lighter reads as she preps for the Summer Reading Guide. Among weddings, homecomings, and books set in Washington State, Catherine is bringing 5 out of 6 familiar authors. With some atypical stories, Sarah has some with historical fiction elements and a nonfiction book. Sarah's choices feature 2 debuts and 3 returning authors. Hopefully going for a tamer wildcard pick will work out for Sarah this season. Sarah has read and liked 2 of her chosen books, and has also started one of Catherine's picks! And don't forget to catch their top #1 picks for the spring season! Spring 2024 Book Preview [3:52] April Sarah's Picks The Wives by Simone Gorrindo (April 9) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [4:54] The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo Piazza (April 2) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [11:10] Colton Gentry's Third Act by Jeff Zenter (April 30) | Amazon | Bookshop.org[19:51] Catherine's Picks Christa Comes Out of Her Shell by Abbi Waxman (April 16) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [8:54] Honey by Victor Lodato (April 16) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [17:08] Real Americans by Rachel Khong (April 30) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [24:45] Other Books Mentioned The Wanderers by Meg Howrey [7:16] You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith [8:10] Maid by Stephanie Land [8:13] Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad [8:17] Know My Name by Chanel Miller [8:20] Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance [8:22] Educated by Tara Westover [8:24] Other People's Houses by Abbi Waxman [10:37] We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza [13:53] Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win by Jo Piazza [14:01] Edgar and Lucy by Victor Lodato [17:17] All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg [19:14] The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner [20:16] Normal People by Sally Rooney [22:36] Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong [24:55] May Sarah's Picks The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley  (May 7) | Amazon | Bookshop.org[29:20]  The Wealth of Shadows by Graham Moore (May 21) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [36:13] Allow Me to Introduce Myself by Onyi Nwabineli  (May 28) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [42:05] Catherine's Picks The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean (May 7) | Amazon | Bookshop.org[33:00]  The Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley (May 21) | Amazon | Bookshop.org[39:12] Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan (May 21) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [45:31]  Other Books Mentioned Outlander by Diana Gabaldon [32:03] The Holdout by Graham Moore [36:22] The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin [36:59] The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore [37:39] The Guncle by Steven Rowley [39:36] The Editor by Steven Rowley [41:45] Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli [42:12] The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton [46:28] Other Books Mentioned Say Hello to My Little Friend by Jennine Capó Crucet [3:39] About Catherine Gilmore Blog | Facebook | Instagram | X  (formerly Twitter) Catherine started The Gilmore Guide to Booksover 10 years ago after wrapping up a career as a corporate librarian. She loves books and reading (surprise!) and currently lives in Seattle, WA.

In conversation with Jo Piazza Acclaimed for her ''knack for writing beautiful stories that speak to the anxiety of forging a new road for oneself'' (Bustle), Rebecca Serle is the New York Times bestselling author of One Italian Summer, In Five Years, The Dinner List, and the young adult novels The Edge of Falling and When You Were Mine. Serle also adapted her YA book series Famous in Love into a hit television series of the same name and her book When You Were Mine was the basis of the 2022 film Rosaline. A tale of romantic aspiration and exasperation, Expiration Dates is a novel in which for each potential partner she meets, a woman magically receives a slip of paper that lists his name and the amount of time that they will be together. Jo Piazza is the international bestselling author of twelve books, including the Good Morning America Book Club pick We Are Not Like Them with Christine Pride. She's also the host of the critically acclaimed Under the Influence podcast. Her work has been featured in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. Her new book is The Sicilian Inheritance. Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep our podcasts free for everyone. THANK YOU! (recorded 3/25/2024)

In our season finale, Daniel Ford and the Writer's Bone Podcast Network share the books we loved in 2023.  Thank you to the authors we interviewed and read, our network hosts, and, of course, you, our dear listeners for another terrific year of podcasting. We can't wait to celebrate our tenth anniversary in 2024!  The Best Books of 2023: Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Under the Tamarind Tree by Nigar Alam Kind of a Big Deal: How Anchorman Stayed Classy and Became the Most Iconic Comedy of the Twenty-First Century by Saul Austerlitz King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father by Brooke Barbier Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post  by Martin Baron The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz Dark Ride by Lou Berney Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—A Cool History of a Hot Commodity by Amy Brady All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley At the Edge of the Woods by Kathryn Bromwich Bob Dylan: Mavericks of Music: Stories for Children by Daniel Budnik No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood by Erin Carlson The Christmas Wager by Holly Cassidy A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness by Jai Chakrabarti Hide by Tracy Clark When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season by Rich Cohen Thicker Than Water by Megan Collins The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century by Josh Cook All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby The Rhythm of Time by S.A. Cosby and Questlove The 1998 Yankees: The Inside Story of the Greatest Baseball Team Ever by Jack Curry The Last Beekeeper by Julie Carrick Dalton The Way Life Should Be by William Dameron The Loneliness Files by Athena Dixon The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan Skull Water by Heinz Inus Fenkl Maddalena by Julia Fine Death Watch by Stona Fitch Come With Me by Erin Flanagan My Last Innocent Year by Daisy Alpert Florin The Hunt by Kelly J. Ford The Long War on Drugs by Anne L. Foster Devil Makes Three by Ben Fountain Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones The Wager by David Grann Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison Happy Place by Emily Henry Wellness by Nathan Hill 62: Aaron Judge, the New York Yankees, and the Pursuit of Greatness by Bryan Hoch A Sleight of Shadows by Kat Howard Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson Loot by Tania James Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio by Katherine Rye Jewell The Longmire Defense by Craig Johnson Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class by Blair L.M. Kelley For You and Only You by Caroline Kepnes What We Kept to Ourselves by Nancy Jooyoun Kim Morning in This Broken World by Katrina Kittle The Liberators by E.J. Koh You Should Have Told Me by Leah Kohen Yellowface by R.F. Kuang Big Gay Wedding by Byron Lane Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane Prom Mom by Laura Lippman Walk the Darkness Down by Daniel Magariel I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride The Revenge List by Hannah Mary McKinnon Call and Response by Gothataone Moeng You Will Find Your People: How to Make Meaningful Friendships as an Adult by Lane Moore Real Friends Talk About Race: Bridging the Gaps Through Uncomfortable Conversations by Yseult P. Mukantabana and Hannah Summerhill The Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee Speech Team by Tim  Murphy Charm City Rocks by Matthew Norman House Woman by Adorah Nworah Gilmore Girls: At Home by Micol Ostow A Summer Morning by Anne Leigh Parrish Tom Lake by Ann Patchett Cooking My Way by Jacques Pépin The Sweet Spot by Amy Poeppel Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski You Were Always Mine by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza The Men Can't Be Saved by Ben Purkert The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann by Virginia Pye Advika and the Hollywood Wives by Kirthana Ramisetti Go as a River by Shelley Read The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes The Kirschbaum Lectures by Seth Rogoff The Celebrants by Steven Rowley Evil Eye by Etaf Rum Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself by Luke Russert Somebody's Fool by Richard Russo Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood by Maureen Ryan The Birthparents by Frank Santo Information Desk by Robyn Schiff Naked in the Rideshare: Stories of Gross Miscalculations by Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly by Katherine A. Sherbrooke Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld Pieces of Blue by Holly Goldberg Sloan Salvage This World by Michael Farris Smith You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith Women We Buried, Women We Burned by Rachel Louise Snyder Bruce Springsteen A Little Golden Book Biography by Laurel Snyder Here in the Dark by Alexis Soloski Making It So by Patrick Stewart Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club by J. Ryan Stradal Super Bloom by Megan Tady Congratulations, the Best is Over! by R. Eric Thomas In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas Late Bloomers by Deepa Varadarajan Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward Strangers in the Night by Heather Webb The War Begins in Paris by Theodore Wheeler Saying It Loud: 1966―The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement by Mark Whitaker On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain by Ronald C. White Jr. City of Dreams by Don Winslow Busy Betty & the Circus Surprise by Reese Witherspoon Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine Small World by Laura Zigman Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by The Bookshop: Lou's Literary Line, Libro.fm and Mark Cecil's upcoming novel Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny. 

Jo Piazza "can't stop making things" - podcasts, novels, non-fiction books, newsletters, books by characters on popular TV shows, and most recently, companion podcasts to soon-to-be-released novels, in this case, a true crime podcast about the based-on-a-true-crime novel that is also based on her great-great-grandmother. This, like most sentences about Jo Piazza, is not an exhaustive list. From her early-career days as a gossip reporter for the NYC tabloids to her far-flung days as travel writer to her career as a bestselling author of many books to her pivot to producing and hosting podcasts (plural) while still writing books (plural) to writing a chatty, newsy, fun newsletter about all of it, Jo has built a career around telling stories. In between she got married (wrote a book about marriage) and had three kids (has a podcast about motherhood), and, with her latest book, "The Sicilian Inheritance," tells a story of women and adventure - that just so happens to feel close to home. In this (very fun) episode of "Your New Life Blend," host Shoshanna Hecht sits down with Jo to discuss what it feels like to become the CEO of your own brand, why she loves writing for women, and why she loves telling the world about brave, badass women. Newsletterhttps://jopiazza.substack.com/BooksThe Sicilian Inheritance https://amzn.to/45xcmExYou Were Always Mine (with Christine Pride)https://www.amazon.com/You-Were-Always-Mine-Novel/dp/1668005506We Are Not Like Them (with Christine Pride)https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Not-Like-Them/dp/1982181036Charlotte Walsh Likes To Winhttps://www.amazon.com/Charlotte-Walsh-Likes-Win-Piazza-ebook/dp/B075RPKLF6Marriage Vacation (as Pauline Brooks)https://www.amazon.com/Marriage-Vacation-Pauline-Brooks/dp/1982100206How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriagehttps://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Married-Continents-Surviving/dp/0451495551If Nuns Ruled The World: Ten Sisters On A Missionhttps://www.amazon.com/If-Nuns-Ruled-World-Sisters-ebook/dp/B00LUA02RACelebrity Inc.: How Famous People Make Moneyhttps://www.amazon.com/Celebrity-Inc-Famous-People-Money-ebook/dp/B005VWK9K8The Knockoff (with Lucy Sykes)https://www.amazon.com/Knockoff-Novel-Lucy-Sykes-ebook/dp/B00N6PD01W

Episode 83 of the Stories to Love podcast features Mansi Shah.Mansi Shah writes contemporary fiction novels with a focus on her Indian heritage and family relationships. She currently lives in Los Angeles, but she was born in Toronto, Canada, raised in the midwestern United States, and studied at universities in America, Australia, and England. When she's not writing, she's traveling and exploring different cultures near and far (having traveled to around 70 countries and counting), experimenting on a new culinary creation, or working on her tennis game or swim strokes.In this episode we discussed her most recent release, The Direction of the Wind, where we talked about how Mansi wanted to write about mental health and how her chapter 1's remain the same. We also talked about how she tackled its dual timeline narrative, and the novel's deeply flawed characters.Links:The Center by   Ayesha Manazir SiddiqiYou Are Always Mine by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza***Preorder FOREVERMORE, a romance anthology, comprised of ten interconnecting romance short stories surrounding the Moore family and a wedding in Napa California. Written by ten Filipino-American authors. It is on preorder, for $1.99 . Pick it up at books2read.com/forevermoreNote: some links are affiliate linksContact Tif at tif@tifmarcelo.comPlease check out her website for podcast submissions

In this episode, co-hosts Linda Lane Gonzalez and Kathryn Garcia Castro enjoy a conversation with Christine Pride and Jo Piazza, co-authors of the wonderful novel YOU WERE ALWAYS MINE, which provides a complex and nuanced look at themes of race, class and motherhood.  Cinnamon Haynes, a black woman, takes an abandoned white baby into her home, she struggles to keep her own past hidden while dealing with the shocking judgments from friends and strangers alike as she strives to do right by the child she grows more attached to with each passing day.In this fascinating episode we learn more about Christine and Jo's approach to writing and collaborating, and how their experiences have shaped their world view. Special thanks to Falon Kirby, Senior Publicist, Atria Books/Simon & Schuster for making this episode of The Revolucion possible.  We also want to thank the band PGM for the use of its song, “April” as The Revolucion theme.Christine Pride, is a writer, editor, and longtime publishing veteran and pens a regular column—“Race Matters”—for Cup of Jo. She lives in New York City.Jo Piazza a bestselling author, podcast creator, and award-winning journalist.   Her work has been published in ten languages in twelve countries and four of her books have been optioned for film and television.#conversations  #motherhood #marriage  #intimatestories #co-authors #stories #Simon&Schuster #cupofjo @revolver_podcasts @atriabooks @simonandschuster @cupofjo Follow The Revolucion Podcast - Instagram: @therevolucionpodcast, X:@TheRevolucionPd 

Guest host Julie Chavez interviews bestselling co-authors Jo Piazza and Christine Pride about You Were Always Mine, a tender, provocative, and thoughtful novel about a Black woman who finds an abandoned white baby. The three discuss the themes of motherhood, adoption, and intimate interracial relationships, as they relate to the book and to their real lives. Jo and Christine also talk about their fascinating co-writing process, their friendship, and the books they are reading and loving. Purchase on Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3DJ3EHKShare, rate, & review the podcast, and follow Zibby on Instagram @zibbyowens! Now there's more! Subscribe to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books on Acast+ and get ad-free episodes. https://plus.acast.com/s/moms-dont-have-time-to-read-books. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Nicole and Gayle give us a recap of the books they have read since the beginning of the year, they highlight their best reads and they also mention a few summer reads and TV adaptations.Yellowface by RF Kuang | Amazon | BookshopYou Were Always Mine by Christine Pride and Jo PIazza | Amazon | BookshopRootless by Krystle Zara Appiah | Amazon | BookshopTastes Like War: A Memoir by Grace M Cho | Amazon | BookshopPageboy by Elliott Page | Amazon | BookshopAll That Is Mine I Carry With Me by William Landay | Amazon | BookshopThe Wife App by Carolyn Mackler | Amazon | BookshopBusiness or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon | Amazon | BookshopThat Summer Feeling by Bridget Morrissey | Amazon | BookshopThe Big Door Prize by M. O. Walsh | Amazon | BookshopDele Weds Destiny by Tomi Obaro | Amazon | BookshopEverything's Fine by Cecila Rabbess | Amazon | BookshopHedge by Jane Delury | Amazon | BookshopNightcrawling by Leila Mottley | Amazon | Bookshop

Writing duo Christine Pride and Jo Piazza return with You Were Always Mine, a timely, tender and thought-provoking novel about race, motherhood and family ties. They joined us to talk about the challenges and surprises of cowriting, how they balance responsibilities and deadlines, the responses of their families to the book and more, live at Barnes & Noble Union Square with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over.  This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Executive Producer Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.  Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays).      Featured Books (Episode): You Were Always Mine by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza 

For the past few years, the U.S. has been in the midst of a racial reckoning, and though today's book is a piece of fiction it is, like all fiction, a reflection of the real world that we live in. In We Are Not Like Them, a white woman (Jen) and a Black woman (Riley) are lifelong friends, nearly as close as sisters … until Jen's policeman husband is involved in the shooting of a Black man, and journalist Riley begins covering the story. In this episode, Nora talks with one of the book's authors, Christine Pride, about writing a book about interracial friendship. Wanna read the book? When you purchase from Apple Books or Bookshop.org, you help support our show! For book discussion guides and a community of Terrible bookworms just like you, join The Terrible Reading Club on Substack! It's free! Got a book you want to recommend? Send us a note at terriblereadingclub@feelingsand.co.  The Terrible Reading Club team is Nora McInerny, Claire McInerny, Megan Palmer, Marcel Malekebu, Kara Nesvig, Jordan Turgeon, and Michelle Plantan. Our upcoming reading list can be found here. Find all our shows and our store at feelingsand.co. The transcript for this episode can be found here or at the episode website link. Originally published on “Terrible, Thanks for Asking” on April 21st, 2022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode #61: Award-winning journalist, best-selling author, and podcast creator, Jo Piazza, joins me to answer the question---Is texting ruining the art of friendship communication? Together we make the case for old-school phone calls and low-key hangs.We referenced two of Jo's Substack pieces:In Praise of the Low-keyHangI Don't Want to Text AnymoreMeet Jo PiazzaJJo Piazza is a bestselling author, podcast creator, and award-winning journalist. She is the bestselling author of many critically acclaimed novels and nonfiction books including We Are Not Like Them, Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win, The Knockoff, and How to Be Married. A former editor, columnist, and travel writer with Yahoo, Current TV, and the Daily News (New York), her work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Glamour, Elle, Time, Marie Claire, The Daily Beast, and Slate. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in economics and communication, a master's in journalism from Columbia University, and a master's in religious studies from New York University. Her latest podcasts are Under the Influence, She Wants More, and Wilder. Her latest co-authored novel with Christine Pride is You Were Always Mine.Find Jo on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok. Let's connect over all things friendship! Here's my Substack newsletter about friendship & more Dear Nina website with show notes and a guide to pitching yourself as a guest Instagram & TikTok Twitter JOIN the Dear Nina Facebook group Ask an anonymous question Next Virtual Book Club Meetings

In conversation with Alexandra Auder, author of Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir Publishing industry veteran Christine Pride has held a variety of editorial positions at Doubleday, Simon & Schuster, and Crown, among other publishing companies. In this capacity she has championed and edited numerous New York Times bestselling memoirs and inspirational stories. Also a freelance editorial consultant, teacher, and coach, Pride writes the ''Race Matters'' column for the popular blog Cup of Jo. A journalist, editor, and podcast host, Jo Piazza is also the author of seven novels, including Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win, If Nuns Ruled the World, and Fitness Junkie. Her other writing has been widely published in a variety of places, including The Wall Street Journal, Marie Claire, and Slate. She formerly served as a managing editor for Yahoo! Travel, the executive news director for the print and digital editions of In Touch Weekly, and the senior digital editor at Current TV. Pride and Piazza's first collaborative novel and a Good Morning America Book Club pick, We Are Not Like Them told the dual-perspective story of two lifelong friends, one Black and one white, whose bond is forever changed when the latter's police officer husband is involved in the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager. In their follow-up novel, a Black woman, finds an abandoned white baby, setting up collisions with her own past and the child's mother. Alexandra Auder is a writer and actor and the author of Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir. Born in New York City to mother Viva, a Warhol superstar, and father Michel Auder, an award-winning filmmaker who directed Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol. Alexandra  has been a featured character in HBO's High Maintenance and has acted in the films of Wim Wenders and Jodie Foster, among others. She resides in Philadelphia with her two children and husband, filmmaker Nick Nehez, with whom she co-produces and collaborates. (recorded 6/15/2023)

Today Virginia is chatting with Jo Piazza, best selling author, journalist, and podcast creator. You might know her from her awesome podcast Under the Influence, or her very excellent Substack Over the Influence. And her new book, co-authored with Christine Pride entitled You Were Always Mine, just came out this month.Remember, if you order Jo's book (or any books we mention on the pod!) from the Burnt Toast Bookshop, you can get 10 percent off that purchase if you also order (or have already ordered!) Fat Talk! (Just use the code FATTALK at checkout.)If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become a paid Burnt Toast subscriber to get all of Virginia's reporting and bonus subscriber-only episodes. This week only, take 20% off your subscription! Disclaimer: Virginia is a journalist and human with a lot of informed opinions. Virginia is not a nutritionist, therapist, doctor, or any kind of health care provider. The conversation you're about to hear and all of the advice and opinions she gives are just for entertainment, information, and education purposes only. None of this is a substitute for individual medical or mental health advice.BUTTER & OTHER LINKS@jopiazzaauthorJo's other books:We Are Not Like ThemFitness JunkieOther book recs:Jasmine Guillory's booksRosaline Palmer Takes the CakeBig Girl by Mecca Jamilah SullivanGet a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia HibbertOur Little Kitchen by Jillian TamakiStarfish by Lisa FippsBodies Are Cool and Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler FederMisc & Butterwhat do I do with my best friend who's dieting and I'm sick of hearing about it?Navigating Chick-fil-A“Those who don't cook don't get to complain.” the video for Waterloo Weed Family OrchardsThe Whispers by Ashley Audrainice cream bowls from East Forkstyle section cover story about East ForkThe Mugsthe bitty bowls FAT TALK is out! Order your signed copy from Virginia's favorite independent bookstore, Split Rock Books (they ship anywhere in the US!). Or order it from your independent bookstore, or from Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Target, or Kobo or anywhere else you like to buy books. You can also order the audio book from Libro.fm or Audible.CREDITSThe Burnt Toast Podcast is produced and hosted by Virginia Sole-Smith. Follow Virginia on Instagram or Twitter.Burnt Toast transcripts and essays are edited and formatted by Corinne Fay, who runs @SellTradePlus, an Instagram account where you can buy and sell plus size clothing.The Burnt Toast logo is by Deanna Lowe.Our theme music is by Jeff Bailey and Chris Maxwell.Tommy Harron is our audio engineer.Thanks for listening and for supporting anti-diet, body liberation journalism.  This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com/subscribe

On today's Complicated Conversation we welcome Christine Pride and Jo Piazza to discuss their second novel together, You Were Always Mine, a moving and provocative novel about a Black woman who finds an abandoned white baby, sending her on a collision course with her past, her family, and a birth mother who doesn't want to be found. We chat with Christine and Jo about their protagonist, Cinnamon, a women who has overcome so much, but has learned to keep herself small and not dare to want for more; how secrets and trauma can silence one's voice; why they wanted to include the birth mother's point of view in epistolary form; motherhood and what it means to create family– blood or chosen; race and challenges to the assumptions many of us make; the astrological ways in which the partnership between Christine and Jo works so well; and what's next for each of them separately and together.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Authors Christine Pride and Jo Piazza chat with Daniel Ford about their second novel You Were Always Mine, which pubs today from Atria Books. To learn more about Christine Pride, read her bio or follow her on Instagram. Learn more about Jo Piazza by visiting her official website and following her on Twitter and Instagram.  Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm, The Movie Loft Podcast, and A Mighty Blaze podcast.

This week on From the Front Porch, it's another New Release Rundown! Annie, Olivia, and Erin are sharing the June releases they're excited about to help you build your TBR. When you purchase or preorder any of the books they talk about, you can enter the code NEWRELEASEPLEASE at checkout for 10% off your order! To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, visit our website: Annie's books: Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan (6/6) Everything's Fine by Cecilia Rabess (6/6) Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me by Aisha Harris (6/13) The Second Ending by Michelle Hoffman (6/13)  Olivia's books:  All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby (6/6) Puzzle Master by Danielle Trussoni (6/13) 102 Days of Lying About Lauren by Maura Jortner (6/20) Lay Your Body Down by Amy Suiter Clarke (6/27) Erin's books:  How to Stay Married by Harrison Scott Key (6/13) You Were Always Mine by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza (6/13) Never Give Up by Tom Brokaw (6/13)  Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie (6/13)   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.  A full transcript of today's episode can be found here. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast 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 Excavations by Kate Myers. Olivia is reading Light Comes to Shadow Mountain by Toni Buzzeo. Erin is reading You Were Always Mine by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza. If you liked what you heard in today's episode, tell us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. 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 and follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We're so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week. Our Executive Producers are...Ashley Ferrell, Cammy Tidwell, Chanta Combs, Chantalle C, Kate O'Connell, Kristin May, Laurie Johnson, Linda Lee Drozt, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Stacy Laue, Stephanie Dean, Susan Hulings, and Wendi Jenkins. Thank you to this week's sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Summer is a wonderful time to see Thomasville, Georgia!  If it's time to hit the road for a quick getaway, we're exactly what you're looking for! You can rekindle your spark, explore historical sites, indulge in dining out, shop at amazing independent stores, and finally relax and unwind. There's no better getaway than Thomasville!  Whether you live close by or are passing through, we hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia – it's worth the trip! Plan your visit at ThomasvilleGa.com.  

Liz & Lisa love to chat with other co-author duos so they are thrilled to sit down with Jo Piazza and Christine Pride to discuss their origin story, how they write together, and the complexities of writing characters outside of your race. And OF COURSE they also dish on the complexities of the publishing industry! Have a comment? A question? Something you'd like to know about the publishing industry? Email Liz & Lisa at Liz@lizandlisa.com and put PODCAST in the subject line.

Nicole and Tori set up in a different location due to the library's busy day, and Nicole previews some new audiobooks that have hit the shelves for listeners! Tori discusses some young adult nonfiction titles and new manga titles that she is excited to share soon with readers as well. The resources described in this episode are listed below. Baby Boom (1987) film; Deaf Utopia by Nyle DiMarco audiobook; Deaf U (2020) Netflix show; Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brené Brown; Finding Me by Viola Davis; Death of the Black Widow by James Patterson and J. D. Barker; Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt; The Wolf's Curse by Jessica Vitalis; Storm by Nicola Skinner; Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye; We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza; The Overground Railroad: the Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy Taylor; My Brain is Different: Stories of ADHD and Other Developmental Disorders by Monzusu; A Perfect World by Rie Aruga; There There by Tommy Orange; The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

WRITERS' BLOCK Ron Block and Meg Walker are joined by Christine Pride & Jo Piazze about ther book, We are Not Like Them, a GMA Book Club Pick and out now in paperback.

This week's guest, Angela Jackson-Brown, is an award-winning novelist, poet, and playwright. She is also a professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana who completed her MFA at Spalding University in Louisville where she is also a member of the creative writing graduate faculty. Her most recent novel, When Stars Rain Down, was published in 2021 and is a historical fiction story set in 1930s Georgia, and has been nominated for several awards. Angela also has a new novel coming out in July called The Light Always Breaks set in post WW 2 Washington DC that features political and romantic intrigue between a high powered interacial couple. These are stand alone novels but what is cool is that these books' characters are in the same fictional universe so readers get a chance to reconnect with characters they may have met before. Angela talks to us about how she uses fiction to write about experiences in her life she wished she'd had, why she started writing plays, and the first book she read as a child that made a big impression on her (and this will surprise you). You can find Angela on Instagram at @angelajacksonbrownauthor and at her author website angelajacksonbrown.com Follow us on Facebook at The Perks of Being a Book Lover Instagram - @perksofbeingabookoverpod Website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1- When Stars Rain Down by Angela Jackson-Brown 2- The Light Always Breaks by Angela Jackson-Brown 3- The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl 4- Drinking From a Bitter Cup by Angela Jackson-Brown 5- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 6- Roots by Alex Haley 7- The Color Purple by Alice Walter 8- The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr. 9- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 10- The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood 11- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 12- We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza 13- Girl at War by Sara Nović 14- True Biz by Sara Nović Movies mentioned 1- Child's Play (1988) 2- The Conjuring (2013)

This week's guest, Angela Jackson-Brown, is an award-winning novelist, poet, and playwright. She is also a professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana who completed her MFA at Spalding University in Louisville where she is also a member of the creative writing graduate faculty. Her most recent novel, When Stars Rain Down, was published in 2021 and is a historical fiction story set in 1930s Georgia, and has been nominated for several awards. Angela also has a new novel coming out in July called The Light Always Breaks set in post WW 2 Washington DC that features political and romantic intrigue between a high powered interacial couple. These are stand alone novels but what is cool is that these books' characters are in the same fictional universe so readers get a chance to reconnect with characters they may have met before. Angela talks to us about how she uses fiction to write about experiences in her life she wished she'd had, why she started writing plays, and the first book she read as a child that made a big impression on her (and this will surprise you). You can find Angela on Instagram at @angelajacksonbrownauthor and at her author website angelajacksonbrown.com Follow us on Facebook at The Perks of Being a Book Lover Instagram - @perksofbeingabookoverpod Website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1- When Stars Rain Down by Angela Jackson-Brown 2- The Light Always Breaks by Angela Jackson-Brown 3- The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl 4- Drinking From a Bitter Cup by Angela Jackson-Brown 5- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 6- Roots by Alex Haley 7- The Color Purple by Alice Walter 8- The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr. 9- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 10- The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood 11- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 12- We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza 13- Girl at War by Sara Nović 14- True Biz by Sara Nović Movies mentioned 1- Child's Play (1988) 2- The Conjuring (2013)

July marks the release of some amazing books which have either just come out in paperback or will be soon, so in this episode Jess and Lauren discuss some of the paperbacks to have on your radar including The Love Songs of WEB Du Bois, We Are Not Like Them and Wish You Were Here. This episode is brought to you by DAME, the award winning sustainable period products. If you're someone who wants to have a more positive period, whilst also helping the planet, just heads to www.wearedame.co and use code RECCOS25 for 25% off at checkout! Some of the Books Mentioned in this Episode with links to purchase on Bookshop.org: The Love Songs of WEB Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride & Jo Piazza Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult We Need to Talk About Money by Otegha Uwagba Underbelly by Anna Whitehouse The Troubles with Us by Alix O'Neill Check out our Website and Subscribe to our newsletter: To celebrate Book Reccos being 2 years old, we've launched a website! This will be a place where we'll share more in-depth reccos of the books and brands we are loving - as well as a place for us to share with you our discount codes! Be sure to sign up to our newsletter on the website to receive a monthly email from us to fill you in on our favourite reccos of the month. Head to www.bookreccos.com Get in Touch: Instagram: @bookreccos Email: hello@bookreccos.com Website: www.bookreccos.com Jingle written and produced by Alex Thomas licensed exclusively for Book Reccos

In this bonus episode of From the Front Porch, Annie talks with Annabel Monaghan about her debut adult novel Nora Goes Off Script. The books mentioned in this episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf: Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan If you enjoyed this conversation, here are a few more episodes you might like: I'll Read What She's Reading Interview with Christine Pride and Jo Piazza Interview with Elizabeth Passarella 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.  A full transcript of today's episode can be found here. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast 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 listening to Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley. If you liked what you heard in 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 and follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We're so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week. Our Executive Producers are... Donna Hetchler, Angie Erickson, Cammy Tidwell, Chantalle C, Nicole Marsee, Wendi Jenkins, Laurie johnson and Kate Johnston Tucker. Libro.FM: Libro.fm lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore (Like The Bookshelf). You can pick from more than 215,000 audiobooks, and you'll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you'll be part of a different story -- one that supports community. All you need is a smart phone and the free Libro.fm app. Right now, if you sign up for a new membership, you will get 2 audiobooks for the price of one. All you have to do is enter FRONTPORCH at checkout or follow this link: https://tidd.ly/3C2zVbb Flodesk: Do you receive a weekly or monthly newsletter from one of your favorite brands? Like maybe From the Front Porch (Or The Bookshelf)... Did you ever wonder, ‘how do they make such gorgeous emails?'  Flodesk is an email marketing service provider that's built for creators, by creators, and it's easy to use. We've been using it for a couple of years now, and I personally love it. And right now you can get 50% off your Flodesk subscription by going to: flodesk.com/c/THEFRONTPORCH

In this episode, Danielle sat down with author, journalist, and podcaster Jo Piazza, to talk all about the importance of hard conversations in relationships (romantic and platonic) and why we need to stop avoiding them. The two of them discuss Jo's new book, We Are Not Like Them, which Jo co-wrote with her friend, Christine Pride. The story follows tan interracial friendship which is tested in many ways when one of their husbands (a police officer), shoots a black teenage boy. Danielle asks Jo all about the writing process and how nerve-wracking it must have been to tackle such an intensely polarizing topic. They also discuss why this was such a topic to explore head on no matter how uncomfortable, and how the timing played a huge role. Danielle and Jo also talk about Jo's podcast, Under The Influence, and how Jo is now delving into the complexities of social media and how it affects women especially, and why these platforms are such a mixture of positives and negatives. According to Jo, we need to talk about all of these truths in society, no matter how much it makes us nervous and uncomfortable. You do not need to have read Jo Piazza's books or listened to her podcasts to enjoy this episode. However, after listening, we're pretty sure you'll want to.Date Night Questions - "MNMPODCAST" for 20% off See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this interview, Heather provides an inside look at the editorial process and how she got started, what the job entails, the Northern California Writers' Retreat, her favorite and least favorite aspects of the job, writing a good query letter, and much more. Heather's recommended reads are: In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza 84 Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff Support the podcast by becoming a Page Turner on Patreon.  Other ways to support the podcast can be found here.         Connect with me on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Don Winslow turns to the Greek tragedies for inspiration in what the author says is not only his last trilogy, but will be his last published books. CITY ON FIRE is the first of the three novels, and the first book Don has set in his hometown of Providence. The internationally bestselling author talks with Olivia on the cusp of his retirement from writing about crafting characters like Danny Ryan, who feels intimately familiar to him, or reworking a literal goddess into a contemporary and complex character. Don talks with Olivia about connecting with emerging writers like T.J. Newman, and his excitement to tour the country and interact with readers, and why he felt called to dive into politics. A Moment With Margaret: Paperback Preview Olivia and Margaret recommend books coming out in paperback that we've featured on the podcast (search for these authors in our podcast library.) From thriller favorite Lisa Jewell, THE NIGHT SHE DISAPPEARED is in paperback now. Debut sensation Zakiya Dalila Harris' THE OTHER BLACK GIRL got everyone (including us) talking, and as of June 7, you can tote the book to the beach.  From writing team Christine Pride and Jo Piazza, the moving story of how a friendship tested in the wake of a police shooting of an unarmed Black teen, WE ARE NOT LIKE THEM, is available in paperback August 2nd.

We're back with another Terrible Reading Club episode, sponsored by Betterhelp Online Therapy. Think of it as our book club for truly terrible times. Haven't read the book we're discussing? Good news: In this reading club, that's not a requirement. Today, we're chatting with Christine Pride about her book co-authored with Jo Piazza, “We Are Not Like Them.”

We're back with another Terrible Reading Club episode, sponsored by Betterhelp Online Therapy. Think of it as our book club for truly terrible times. Haven't read the book we're discussing? Good news: In this reading club, that's not a requirement. Today, we're chatting with Christine Pride about her book co-authored with Jo Piazza, “We Are Not Like Them.” Buy the book here or wherever you shop books. Can't get enough TTFA? Sign up for TTFA Premium for $7.99 a month. You'll get access to exclusive bonus content, ad-free episodes, extended guest interviews and more! Visit TTFA.org/Premium to get started. And check out our sponsor this week: BetterHelp — betterhelp.com/ttfa Join the TTFA reading club: TTFA.org/readingclubOur twice-monthly newsletter features behind-the-scenes content, previews of upcoming episodes and more. Sign up.You can purchase Nora's books here.Shop for your favorite TTFA gear at TTFAmerch.comRead the transcript for this episode here.You can catch up with TTFA on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook using @ttfapodcast. Nora's Instagram is @noraborealis.TTFA is public media. Which means we are supported by you. You can join us with a contribution at ttfa.org/donate.

SOUL CAFE PODCAST Episode #8With special guest: Christine PrideChristine Pride is a writer, editor and long-time publishing veteran.  She's held editorial posts at many different trade imprints, including Doubleday, Broadway, Crown, Hyperion, and Simon& Schuster.As an editor, Christine has published a range of books, with a special emphasis on inspirational stories and memoirs including New York Times Bestsellers.  As a freelance editorial consultant, she does select editing and proposal/content development, as well as teaching and coaching, and pens a regular column—Race Matters-A Cup of Jo.  She lives in NYC and is co-author of Good Morning America Book Club choice…We Are Not Like Them.Welcome to the Soul Cafe Podcast…the Soul Cafe..”where life is served-up freshly brewed”. And the table is huge for ALL people.Are you ready for a rude awakening??  Della Mae wake us up….I will give a little intro to the book—WE ARE NOT LIKE THEM—told from —“alternating perspectives—-a novel about friendship—-ending with “WANLT explores complex questions of race and how they pervade and shape our most intimate spaces in a deeply divided world—but at its heart, it's a story of enduring friendship—-a love that defies the odds even as it faces its most difficult challenges”.So Christine—-in my curiosity I always want to know—why—why did you write this book—was their a foundational purpose?I want people if they have not already to get this book and read it—with that said—I promise not to give a spoiler—but I do want to read a couple of excerpts from the book and just get some vibe back from you.  I must confess up front though that I am not a big novel reader—I am a major non-fiction reader—but there is no way I would ever interview someone about something that I have not taken the time to read—so in this case—my wife and I read the book out loud—she read as Jen—-and I read as Riley—it was fun I promise—-and I must confess—I felt this book—and I felt the soul of this book—-and I believe it was because Christine Pride and Jo Piazza—are great writers they were able to pull even this old white guy into the story—okay even shed a tear or two.  this is the scene—Gigi—Riley's grandmother says—“I want to be buried in the family plot too—with them.  Y'all make that happen, ya hear?  And you bring Grandpa Leroy's ashes and scatter some around me so he there too.  God knows why that man wanted to be cremated.  I want to be in the ground, dust to dust, like Jesus.  Right where I was born.  Sometimes you gotta go home.  You promise you'll take me there.”  “We will. I promise.”  My heart is screaming.And in the middle of this real conversation about death and dying.And then Riley reflects a little—“it kills me how some people want so badly to believe racism is buried beneath layers and layers of history, “ancient history,” they say.  But it's not.  It's like an umpire brushing the thinnest layer of dirt off home plate: it's right there.  Only too often the trauma, the toll of it, remains unknown generation after generation.  Like how Gigi kept her own awful secret, presumably to protect us from the ugly truth, and I've kept my own secrets, haunted by a similar shame.I assume she's nodded off, but then Gigi opens her eyes and looks up at the ceiling.  “I want the world to be better, baby girl.  We gotta do better.”Any reflections here Christine?I will read another passage from the book if we have time but let's talk about something else—and that is the article you authored in the STYLIST entitled—“Why I Started to Question if I'd Event Want Another White Friend Again”.  And this article for me—kind of helped with the whole back story of your and Jo Piazza's relationship leading up to writing the book together and leading up to your friendship.  The honesty of this article is what we all need to hear.Christine writes:“There's an old Chris Rock bit where he jokes, “my black friends have a bunch of white friends and all my white friends have one Black friend.”  Like most comedy, the humor in this comes from the unrecognizable truth.  I know this first hand because it's the story of my life.  I should have business cards printed:  Christine Pride, Everyone's One Black Friend.Skipping ahead a little—“and since I've been single most of my adult life, it is these friendships I've built over 40 years, wide and deep and diverse, that constitute my family and my tribe, they are my cornerstone and salvation.  Which means, I was always on the prowl for additions to my circle—-and was promiscuous in my search:  white, Black, Latino, Asian, everyone was welcome in my friendship tent.  But then something changed.  Somewhere along the line (er, perhaps in early 2016?), I became wary of making new friendships…with white people.  Actually, the truth be told, I became wary of white people in general.  That eager, easy, color-blind approach I'd had to new connections was gone, replaced by a brittle cautiousness and skepticism.  I am not sure I even consciously realized how much this was the case, until I met Jo.”Another excerpt from book.Wow—-this seems like soul kind of stuff here and we know that the Soul Cafe is where life is served up freshly brewed—-so Christine would you continue this soul baring conversation—the world needs this kind of honest conversation—-talk Christine.So—what now?  I know this book—We Are Not Like Them—which is a Good Morning America Book Club pick—is been talked about in Book Clubs across the nation—there is even a little reading club guide at the back of the book.  What are you hearing—do you think the book is doing anything creatively in the mainstream of society??Is there a Part 2 coming?Folks—you gotta read WE ARE NOT LIKE THEM—-as Laura Dave—NY Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me says—“a powerful story about friendship, race, love, forgiveness, and justice—and the stunning ways they intersect…Empathetic, riveting, and authentic, We Are Not Like Them will stay with you long after you turn the last page.”  And Frank Newsome of the Soul Cafe Podcast says—-Amen sister.Thanks—Thanks Christine Pride for chatting with me today—please share this episode of the Soul Cafe Podcast with all your social media.Next months episode will be the Season finally..Today we go off the air with a song GOOD For Something by Chuck and Mira Costa the Indie folk-pop duo THE SEA THE SEA…thanks for the permission Chuck and Mira.

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In this new episode, Nicole and Gayle continue with the second round of the now traditional March Madness with the five books that won thanks to your voting. Stay to hear what are going to be the winners for the next round. They also discuss Win Me Something by Kyle Lucia Wu, the book of the month for the Book Club. This episode also needs your judgment! Please vote https://forms.gle/WH6YbLxhrTMyY5xj9 (here) for your book choice. Vote https://forms.gle/kAZQPEmimz3djyZ19 (here) your choice for the next Book Club. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee | https://amzn.to/3Dci3es (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780525509561 (Bookshop) A Novel Obsession by Caitlin Barasch | https://amzn.to/3IE1g5b (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593185599 (Bookshop) The Paris Apartment by Locy Foley | https://amzn.to/3qCU2Z7 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780063003057 (Bookshop) #5 The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller | https://amzn.to/37AvO7W (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593329825 (Bookshop) Count the Ways by Joyce Maynard | https://amzn.to/3FheK6i (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780062398277 (Bookshop) #4 We Are Not Like Them by Jo Piazza and Christine Pride | https://amzn.to/3lG7AQa (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781982181031 (Bookshop) At The Wolf's Table by Rosella Postorino | https://amzn.to/2XiJO4H (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250179166 (Bookshop) #3 This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel | https://amzn.to/3iKLCeP (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250088567 (Bookshop) The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deeshaw Philyaw | https://amzn.to/3fFBzFx (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781949199734 (Bookshop) #2 What Comes After by Joanne Tompkins | https://amzn.to/3AGYUil (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593085998 (Bookshop) The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano by Donna Freitas | https://amzn.to/3bqMO2Z (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781984880598 (Bookshop) #1 The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz | https://amzn.to/3jLfkiT (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250790767 (Bookshop) The Idea of You by Robinne Lee | https://amzn.to/3lcMed7 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250125903 (Bookshop) This episode also needs your judgment! Please vote https://forms.gle/WH6YbLxhrTMyY5xj9 (here) for your book choice. Vote https://forms.gle/kAZQPEmimz3djyZ19 (here) your choice for the next Book Club. For the Human Design Readings: https://nbhumandesignreading.as.me/ (https://NBHumanDesignReading.as.me/) With the code - Readerly you can get a free reading!

The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith Website: https://gobookmart.com Buy Now: https://amzn.to/3iFufv4 “Beautiful, moving, hopeful: I loved this book from beginning to end, and will be thinking about it for a long time. It's a total triumph.”—Emily Stone, author of Always, In December “Warm, funny, and bursting with heart, [it's] exactly the book you want to read: a pitch-perfect story about the ways we recover love in the strangest of places.”—Rebecca Serle, New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years “Filled with music, passion, and love of all kinds . . . a fast-paced, emotional novel and an unforgettable exploration of family and the choices we make that shape our lives.”—Jill Santopolo, New York Times bestselling author of The Light We Lost “I burst into tears at the end of Jennifer E. Smith's gorgeous, heartfelt The Unsinkable Greta James—tears of surprised happiness. I loved traveling to Alaska with the wild and tender Greta, and found her escape an addictive journey. I will miss her—and her music—now that I've turned the final beautiful page.”—Amanda Eyre Ward, New York Times bestselling author of The Jetsetters “Thoughtful and tender and true . . . perfectly captures the messiness of loving and being loved . . . Smith has written a gripping relationship story that's also a perceptive exploration of what it means to dream. I devoured it.”—Janelle Brown, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Things “This novel is unabashedly sentimental in the best possible way. It's about how family can misunderstand us, grief can undo us, and our dreams can save us. It's a total delight, as transporting and diverting as the Alaskan cruise Greta herself is on in these pages.”—Christine Pride, co-author of We Are Not Like Them --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gobookmart-review/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gobookmart-review/support

This week's guest, Angela Jackson-Brown, is an award-winning novelist, poet, and playwright. She is also a professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana who completed her MFA at Spalding University in Louisville where she is also a member of the creative writing graduate faculty. Her most recent novel, When Stars Rain Down, was published in 2021 and is a historical fiction story set in 1930s Georgia, and has been nominated for several awards. Angela also has a new novel coming out in July called The Light Always Breaks set in post WW 2 Washington DC that features political and romantic intrigue between a high powered interacial couple. These are stand alone novels but what is cool is that these books' characters are in the same fictional universe so readers get a chance to reconnect with characters they may have met before. Angela talks to us about how she uses fiction to write about experiences in her life she wished she'd had, why she started writing plays, and the first book she read as a child that made a big impression on her (and this will surprise you). You can find Angela on Instagram at @angelajacksonbrownauthor and at her author website angelajacksonbrown.com Follow us on Facebook at The Perks of Being a Book Lover Instagram - @perksofbeingabookoverpod Website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1- When Stars Rain Down by Angela Jackson-Brown 2- The Light Always Breaks by Angela Jackson-Brown 3- The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl 4- Drinking From a Bitter Cup by Angela Jackson-Brown 5- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 6- Roots by Alex Haley 7- The Color Purple by Alice Walter 8- The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr. 9- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 10- The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood 11- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 12- We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza 13- Girl at War by Sara Nović 14- True Biz by Sara Nović Movies mentioned 1- Child's Play (1988) 2- The Conjuring (2013)

This week's guest, Angela Jackson-Brown, is an award-winning novelist, poet, and playwright. She is also a professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana who completed her MFA at Spalding University in Louisville where she is also a member of the creative writing graduate faculty. Her most recent novel, When Stars Rain Down, was published in 2021 and is a historical fiction story set in 1930s Georgia, and has been nominated for several awards. Angela also has a new novel coming out in July called The Light Always Breaks set in post WW 2 Washington DC that features political and romantic intrigue between a high powered interacial couple. These are stand alone novels but what is cool is that these books' characters are in the same fictional universe so readers get a chance to reconnect with characters they may have met before. Angela talks to us about how she uses fiction to write about experiences in her life she wished she'd had, why she started writing plays, and the first book she read as a child that made a big impression on her (and this will surprise you). You can find Angela on Instagram at @angelajacksonbrownauthor and at her author website angelajacksonbrown.com Follow us on Facebook at The Perks of Being a Book Lover Instagram - @perksofbeingabookoverpod Website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1- When Stars Rain Down by Angela Jackson-Brown 2- The Light Always Breaks by Angela Jackson-Brown 3- The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl 4- Drinking From a Bitter Cup by Angela Jackson-Brown 5- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 6- Roots by Alex Haley 7- The Color Purple by Alice Walter 8- The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr. 9- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 10- The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood 11- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 12- We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza 13- Girl at War by Sara Nović 14- True Biz by Sara Nović Movies mentioned 1- Child's Play (1988) 2- The Conjuring (2013)

In this episode, Nicole and Gayle come back with their traditional March Madness contest. They both select ten pics and make a pitch for each of them making ten pairs of books competing against. This episode needs your engagement! We would like you to vote on which books should move forward. https://forms.gle/u9K4kfVM8zFV3KpE6 (Link to the poll). The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen | https://amzn.to/3M0l6KM (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250273208 (Bookshop) Seven Days in June by Tia Williams | https://amzn.to/3sjfi5N (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781538719107 (Bookshop) Win Me Something by Kyle Lucia Wu | https://amzn.to/3kkXvbP (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781951142735 (Bookshop) https://forms.gle/u9K4kfVM8zFV3KpE6 (Link to the poll) #10 The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller | https://amzn.to/37AvO7W (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593329825 (Bookshop) The Anatomy Of Desire by L. R. Dorn | https://amzn.to/3CGAZ4A (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780063041929 (Bookshop) #9 We Are Not Like Them by Jo Piazza and Christine Pride | https://amzn.to/3lG7AQa (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781982181031 (Bookshop) Finding Mrs. Ford by Deborah Goodrich Royce | https://amzn.to/3hXyilO (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781642931723 (Bookshop) #8 Should We Stay Or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver | https://amzn.to/3s6on1y (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780063094246 (Bookshop) This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel | https://amzn.to/3iKLCeP (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250088567 (Bookshop) #7 What Comes After by Joanne Tompkins | https://amzn.to/3AGYUil (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593085998 (Bookshop) Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri | https://amzn.to/3lZe1Qh (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593318317 (Bookshop) #6 The Idea Of You by Robinne Lee | https://amzn.to/3lcMed7 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250125903 (Bookshop) Assembly by Natasha Brown | https://amzn.to/3MFrFTx (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780316268264 (Bookshop) #5 The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz | https://amzn.to/3jLfkiT (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250790767 (Bookshop) The Talented Miss Farwell by Emily Gray Tedrowe | https://amzn.to/2VPFJnq (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780062897725 (Bookshop) #4 The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano by Donna Freitas | https://amzn.to/3bqMO2Z (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781984880598 (Bookshop) What Could Be Saved by Liese O'Halloran Shwarz | https://amzn.to/3AuLBS1 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781982150617 (Bookshop) #3 The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deeshaw Philyaw | https://amzn.to/3fFBzFx (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781949199734 (Bookshop) Indelicacy by Amina Cain | https://amzn.to/3AtcVju (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250785718 (Bookshop) #2 What Could Be Saved by Liese O'Halloran Shwarz | https://amzn.to/3AuLBS1 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781982150617 (Bookshop) At the Wolf's Table by Rosella Postorino | https://amzn.to/2XiJO4H (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250179166 (Bookshop) #1 Count The Ways by Joyce Maynard | https://amzn.to/3FheK6i (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780062398277 (Bookshop) Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore | https://amzn.to/3iHUDFc (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780062913272 (Bookshop) https://forms.gle/u9K4kfVM8zFV3KpE6 (Link to the poll)

As always the Soul Cafe Podcast begins as we reflect with Della Mae's song about how we might all be in need of a Rude Awakening or just any old awakening will do.So who do you ask to be a guest on the Soul Cafe Podcast when you and your wife are celebrating your 40th Wedding Anniversary? Invite wife Jill to join you of course and invite None other than author of the intriguing book…How to be Married…Jo Piazza. Jo is also author of some great fiction…Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win…co author with Lucy Sykes of Fitness Junkie and the Knockoff….and her newest fiction co author with Christine Pride…the great work entitled..We Are Not Like Them. Throw in a couple Nonfiction books…If Nuns Ruled the world: Ten Sisters on a Mission and Celebrity, Inc.: How Famous People Make Money….and of course near to my heart as a Podcaster..her acclaimed Podcast…Under the Influence and Committed….are we lucky and honored today to have Jo Piazza…welcome Jo Piazza to the Soul Cafe.jopiazza.comNow since this is the Soul Cafe Podcast 40th Wedding Anniversary/Love editionToday we are going to focus primarily on Jo's book…How to be Married. Now How to be..came out in 2017…no doubt a few things have changed with Jo and marriage since then..more on that later. The book starts with a note from the author that tells us…”after many years spent wandering the world for both work and pleasure, I well know that you can't witness the truth of any country or culture in a single visit , or even in many. I'm a traveler and a journalist, not an anthropologist, psychologist, or historian “…..my words….she just wanted to know…how to be married. Jo also says upfront that her goal in writing How to be Married is to start a dialogue about partnership, sex, love, marriage, fidelity, monogamy, polygamy, money, power, equality, kids, men and women, and how all these things fit together in a world that's changing faster than most of us ever thought possible”…Oh my……..So Jo…What did you learn in 5 minutes or less…what still applies?Ok…now on to my favorite chapter that my wife and laughed hard for at least a day after reading…chapter 4..Maine…Were a Team? No way better I suppose to learn about How to be Married than heading up to Sunday River, Maine for The Wife Carrying Championship……..please tell is a little about what was learned that day at Sunday River."?.and of course she will be telling it from the perspective of the one being carried…..Tell it JoSo…this is the Soul Cafe…where life is served up freshly brewed….and you are talking to some guy who went to Divinity school or seminary or cemetery as some call it….I could not help but notice that in addition to degrees in economics and journalism you also have one in religious studies…..Now what was that about?So, I promised that we would come back to the obvious question…well obvious coming from someone who has been married for 40 years…and coming from someone that very often starts the day with those words from Thomas Merton..”My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me….”It has been 7 plus years since writing..How to be Married…..what still applies…and what now seems like fools talk?So…Jo this has been amazing….thanks so much for taking the risk to talk with us today….I will send you the link to this episode soon…..please post on all your social media and help out a person who after 40 is still learning and growing.Peace. (You can mute and exit)This love—this relationship we are talking encompass so much more than even marriage—as Author and Activist Valerie Kaur says:Love is more than a rush of feeling. Love is sweet labor: fierce, bloody, imperfect, and life giving—a choice we make again and again. Love is not any one emotion. love is All our emotions: Joy is the gift of love. Grief is the price of love. Anger is what we harness to protect that which we love.Revolutionary Love is the choice to labor for others, for opponents, and for ourselves—to transform the world around us, and within us.”I am a lucky man…to have shared life and love with my best friend for 40 years…been blessed with 3 of the coolest children anywhere and 2 super cool grandchildren and a dog named River…and of course to be able to interview such a person as Jo Piazza…get all of her books soon. jopiazza.comNext month on the Soul Cafe Podcast I will be having somewhat of a wilderness/Lenten theme…with a National Endowment of the Arts Fellow and author of many books….Paula Huston..focusing in on her brand new book..The Hermits of Big Sur…so be ready for some wilderness conversation.And in April…drum roll..I will be taking with Jo Piazza's co author Christine Pride about their brand new book..WE ARE NOT LIKE THEM.And that book reminds of the depth of love—we are talking even more than marital love—as Desmond Tuta said, “our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other”Remember…the table is huge….all are welcome at the Soul Cafe where life is served-up freshly brewed.Wrap upToday since it is a special 40th anniversary love episode I will leave you with a super love song with the permission of Drew and Ellie Holcomb…..(Drew Holcomb and NEIGHBORS)“It's in the wine we drink, dirty dishes in the kitchen sink, and the lights go out till the sun comes up; we are not alone. It's in the miles we drive, never having to say goodbye to the things we tell each other without saying a word.You are the one thing that I know.”Thanks for joining us to today at the Soul Cafe.

The novel is written from alternating perspectives and tells the story of two women of different races whose friendship is altered by a tragic police shooting in Philadelphia.

We are Traci and Ellie, two bookish friends who talk in any spare minute that we have.  This week we are discussing celebrity book clubs!  To shop the books listed in this episode, visit our shop at bookshop.org.   Literally Reading: Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby (Traci) Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney (Ellie) The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (Traci) I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott (Ellie) Crack the Book Open:  The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles Good Company by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean Seven Days in June by Tia Williams  The Push by Ashley Audrain  We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones Becoming by Michelle Obama Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout Gilead by Marilynne Robinson  The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates The Love Songs of W.E.B. deBois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

My guests today are Jo Piazza and Christine Pride. Jo is a bestselling journalist and author, Christine is her esteemed editor and a publishing veteran. Working together, the pair became friends and now they've written a novel together. We are Not Like Them is the story of a lifelong friendship between a Black woman named Riley and a white woman named Jen. When an event throws their friendship into turmoil, they have to do a lot of racial reckoning and coming to terms with the blind spots that they - and many of us – have around race. At How To Be Sad we are all about learning to handle sadness, better, learning to tolerate discomfort and get better at difficult conversations. And We Are Not Like Them is a masterclass in difficult conversations – not only for its characters Jen and Riley, but for its authors. Here, we talk about: -       Why it's hard to talk about race -       Interracial friendships -       Cancel culture -       Having difficult conversations (more than once) -       The mental load of ‘double-consciousness' -       Exceptionalism -       Formative female friendships -       Infertility Follow Christine Pride @cpride on Instagram and Jo Piazza @jopiazzaauthor (Instagram) or @jopiazza (Twitter). Their thought-provoking, compelling, page-turner We Are Not Like Them is out now. Follow Helen @MsHelenRussell and How To Be Sad, the book, is out now in the North America and out in paperback in the UK.   Thanks to Joel Grove for production and Matt Clacher at HarperCollins. If you like the show please tell your friends, rate and review to help us attract more great guests!

In Episode 103, Catherine Gilmore (@gilmoreguide) and I share the best backlist books we read in 2021. We each share our top 5 backlist books from 2021, as well as some underrated backlist gems. Catherine and I both had a lot of success in 2021 with backlist reading, and this was especially true for me in comparison to my overall reading for the year.   This post contains affiliate links through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). Announcements Join our Patreon Community ($5/mo) and get our episode series called Double Booked!  This is a monthly series where a co-host (Catherine of Gilmore Guide to Books and Susie from Novel Visits on alternate months) and I will each share our own book recommendations in the same format as the big show (2 old books we love, 2 new books we love, 1 book we didn't love, and 1 upcoming release we're excited about). Get more details about all the goodies available to all patrons (Stars and Superstars) and sign up here! Highlights Catherine's and Sarah's 2021 backlist reading stats. Sarah's backlist reading has finally matched her pre-podcast days. How the Double Booked episodes help them both incorporate more backlist into reading each year. The Top 5 Backlist Books We Read in 2021 [7:12] Sarah Caste by Isabel Wilkerson | Buy from Amazon | Bookshop.org [11:18] Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha | Buy from Amazon | Bookshop.org [19:31] The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels | Buy from Amazon | Bookshop.org [27:18] The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard | Buy from Amazon | Bookshop.org [35:15] The Cutting Season by Attica Locke | Buy from Amazon | Bookshop.org [42:07] Catherine Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener | Buy from Amazon | Bookshop.org [7:17] If You Tell by Gregg Olsen | Buy from Amazon | Bookshop.org [14:54] Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant | Buy from Amazon | Bookshop.org[23:05] Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart | Buy from Amazon | Bookshop.org [29:50] Hungry Heart by Jennifer Weiner | Buy from Amazon | Bookshop.org [39:59]  2021 Backlist Underrated Gems [44:49] Sarah The Deepest South of All by Richard Grant | Buy from Amazon | Bookshop.org [46:45] You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz | Buy from Amazon | Bookshop.org [50:44] Catherine Metropolitan Stories by Christine Coulson | Buy from Amazon | Bookshop.org [45:01] The Blue Between Sky and Water by Susan Abulhawa | Buy from Amazon [48:56] Other Books Mentioned Share Your Stuff.  I'll Go First. by Laura Tremaine | Buy from Amazon [12:04]  We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza | Buy from Amazon [22:19] The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai | Buy from Amazon [29:38]  Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart (April 5) | Buy from Amazon [32:49]  I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara | Buy from Amazon [37:46] Thirteen by Steve Cavanaugh | Buy from Amazon [39:10] In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner | Buy from Amazon [40:13] Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner | Buy from Amazon [40:14] Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke | Buy from Amazon [42:16]  Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke | Buy from Amazon [42:18]  Natchez Burning by Greg Iles | Buy from Amazon [48:35] Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa | Buy from Amazon [49:06] The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz | Buy from Amazon [50:49] About Catherine Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram Catherine started The Gilmore Guide to Books over 6 years ago after wrapping up a career as a corporate librarian. She loves books and reading (surprise!) and currently lives in Ann Arbor, MI.

Nicole and Gayle discuss whether they achieved 2021 reading goals and talk about 2022 objectives for their reading routine. After giving us an update on what books they've finished, both present 7 books they want to read this year. As always you can find below the whole booklist they run through during the episode: Ghosts by Dolly Alderton | https://amzn.to/3EHyQpI (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593319857 (Bookshop) We Are Not Like Them by Jo Piazza and Christine Pride | https://amzn.to/3lG7AQa (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781982181031 (Bookshop) The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deeshaw Philyaw | https://amzn.to/3fFBzFx (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781949199734 (Bookshop) Fault Lines by Emily Itami | https://amzn.to/3AmsgCW (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780063099807 (Bookshop) Crying In H Mart by Michelle Zauner | https://amzn.to/3jI7Hd5 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780525657743 (Bookshop) Klara in the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro | https://amzn.to/33tNGmF (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593318171 (Bookshop) Win Me Something by Kyle Lucia Wu | https://amzn.to/3kkXvbP (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781951142735 (Bookshop) Last Resort by Andrew Lipstein | https://amzn.to/3fEneJo (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780374602703 (Bookshop) Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh | https://amzn.to/3fF9G08 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780061763304 (Bookshop) Honor by Thrity Umrigar | https://amzn.to/3fNbTqg (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781616209957 (Bookshop) Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins | https://amzn.to/3GTmCve (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250274250 (Bookshop) The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman | https://amzn.to/3FSU5oA (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780735217959 (Bookshop) Booth by Karen Joy Fowler | https://amzn.to/32jLX2u (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593331439 (Bookshop) Foreverland by Heather Havrilesky | https://amzn.to/3qKCLxx (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780062984463 (Bookshop) Read Dangerously by Azar Nafisi | https://amzn.to/3FQgfYz (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780062947369 (Bookshop) The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka | https://amzn.to/3fHZd45 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593321331 (Bookshop) The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh | https://amzn.to/3tKFuZR (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593296998 (Bookshop) Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso | https://amzn.to/3Ie0tIu (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593241226 (Bookshop) The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont | https://amzn.to/3fL5n3C (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250274618 (Bookshop) Ocean State by Stewart O'Nan | https://amzn.to/3fEcieR (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780802159274 (Bookshop) Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka | https://amzn.to/3fMQddW (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780063052734 (Bookshop)  

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie is interviewing Christine Pride and Jo Piazza, the authors of We Are Not Like Them. You can order their book from The Bookshelf at the link below: We Are Not Like Them 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.  A full transcript of today's episode can be found here. Special thanks to Studio D Podcast Production for production of From the Front Porch and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations.  If you'd like to support From the Front Porch, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your input helps us make the show even better and reach new listeners. All you have to do is open up the Podcast App on your phone, look for From the Front Porch, scroll down until you see ‘Write a Review' and tell us what you think. Or, if you're so inclined, support us for $5 a month on Patreon, where you can follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic and participate in live video Q&As in our monthly lunch break sessions. Just go to:  patreon.com/fromthefrontporch We're so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week. Libro.FM: Libro.fm lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore (Like The Bookshelf). You can pick from more than 215,000 audiobooks, and you'll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you'll be part of a different story -- one that supports the community. All you need is a smartphone and the free Libro.fm app. Right now, if you sign up for a new membership, you will get 2 audiobooks for the price of one. All you have to do is enter FRONTPORCH at checkout or follow this link: libro.fm/redeem/FRONTPORCH Flodesk: Do you receive a weekly or monthly newsletter from one of your favorite brands? Like maybe From the Front Porch (Or The Bookshelf)... Did you ever wonder, ‘how do they make such gorgeous emails?'  Flodesk is an email marketing service provider that's built for creators, by creators, and it's easy to use. We've been using it for a couple of years now, and I personally love it. And right now you can get 50% off your Flodesk subscription by going to: flodesk.com/c/THEFRONTPORCH

Show notes: We could've just vomited a list of our best books for you, but to be honest, neither of us wanted to record a 2 hour long episode. You're welcome. Instead, we decided to do a superlative style recap for you. Join the fun as we talk about books that made us cry, that surprised us, that kept us up at night, and so much more.  Click here to join us on Patreon to get extra bookish goodies like bonus episodes, end of year rating guides, book club, and more!   Related Links: Books mentioned*: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune I Would Leave Me If I Could by Halsey Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell The Push by Ashley Audrain A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin Shadow and Bone Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza A Promised Land by Barack Obama Storyteller by Dave Grohl A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee Razorblade Tears by S.A. Crosby Mothertrucker by Amy Butcher Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi How to Stop Time by Matt Haig Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi  Regretting You by Colleen Hoover All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle * The books noted above contain affiliate links. This means that we may get a small kickback if you purchase through our links, at no additional cost to you.

In this episode, Nicole and Gayle are going to go over their best books with a book wrap-up for the year. Gayle prepared the categories so that they could talk about them. Some fun topics like their top fiction and nonfiction books, their biggest surprises, or best audiobooks. Also, they're giving an update on what their schedule looks like for the rest of the year and the first quarter of 2022. As always, below you can find the book titles and links to get them and also links for the gifts mentioned during the episode. Should We Stay Or Should We Go | Lionel Shriver | https://amzn.to/3s6on1y (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780063094246 (Bookshop) Ghosts | Dolly Alderton | https://amzn.to/3EHyQpI (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593319857 (Bookshop) Sex and Lies | Leila Slimani | https://amzn.to/3DJ957c (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780143133766 (Bookshop) My Dark Vanessa | Kate Elizabeth Russell | https://amzn.to/3ij54yI (Amazon) | https://amzn.to/3ij54yI (Bookshop) The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano | Donna Freitas | https://amzn.to/3iEoXAQ (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781984880598 (Bookshop) What Could Be Saved | Liese O'Halloran Schwartz | https://amzn.to/3AuLBS1 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781982150617 (Bookshop) Count The Ways | Joyce Maynard | https://amzn.to/3FheK6i (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780062398277 (Bookshop) The Plot | Jean Hanff Korelitz | https://amzn.to/3jLfkiT (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250790767 (Bookshop) Good Morning Monster | Catherine Gildiner | https://amzn.to/2VQ8gcK (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250271488 (Bookshop) The Idea Of You | Robinne Lee | https://amzn.to/3lcMed7 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250125903 (Bookshop) The Last Thing He Told Me | Laura Dave | https://amzn.to/3iLfKXb (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781501171345 (Bookshop) The Bad Muslim Discount | Syed Massood | https://amzn.to/3rva4m3 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780385545259 (Bookshop) The Other Black Girl | Zakiya Dalila Harrs | https://amzn.to/3s72T4J (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781982160135 (Bookshop) The People We Keep | Allison Larkin | https://amzn.to/3tQNab1 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781982171292 (Bookshop) Malibu Rising | Taylor Jenkins Reid | https://amzn.to/2VQ48cK (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781524798659 (Bookshop) We Are Not Like Them | Jo Piazza and Christine Pride | https://amzn.to/3lG7AQa (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781982181031 (Bookshop) The Plot | Jean Halff Korelitz | https://amzn.to/3jLfkiT (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250790767 (Bookshop) Brat: An '80s Story | Andrew McCarthy | https://amzn.to/3AKgSjU (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781538754276 (Bookshop) A Very Punchable Face | Colin Jost | https://amzn.to/37uJIIL (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781101906347 (Bookshop) I Miss You When I Blink | Mary Alice Philpott | https://amzn.to/3wi7rY6 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781982102807 (Bookshop) Support this podcast

Christine Pride is a writer, editor and 20-year publishing veteran.  Over the course of her career, she's held editorial posts at many different imprints, including Doubleday, Broadway, Crown, Hyperion, and, most recently, as a Senior Editor at Simon and Schuster, and published many bestselling and critically acclaimed books.  She's also a writer: her first novel, We Are Not Like Them, written with Jo Piazza was published by Atria Books in October.  She does select freelance writing and editorial work, and pens the "Race Matters" column and Cup of Jo. You can reach her at Christine@christinepride.com or @cpride on Instagram.   

(Dec 3, 2021)

When an unarmed Black teenager is shot by police while walking home from school, the grief and outrage ripples through the city of Philadelphia in the novel “We Are Not Like Them.” The shooting calls for changes in policing, revealing deep divisions among those who experience systemic racism and those who deny it exists.  For lifelong best friends Jen and Riley, the shooting is a deeply personal crisis that threatens to rip them apart for good.  Christine Pride and Jo Piazza join the podcast to talk about writing this deeply moving book together, navigating their own obstacles to openly discussing race, and the value of exploring divisive issues through the storytelling lens of friendship, forgiveness, and what it takes for two different people to take their shared history into the future. In a Moment With Margaret: discussion of other recent books that tackle race, including Zakiya Dalila Harris' “The Other Black Girl,” Brit Bennett's “The Vanishing Half” and Emmanuel Acho's “Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Boy.” “We Are Not Like Them” is the first novel Piazza and Pride co-authored today. The book was published in October, 2021 by Atria Books. 

Show notes: It's probably no surprise that two book nerds who have a book club and a book podcast love buying books, right? Although, we might be in slight denial about how many books we actually purchase in a month. Spoiler: it's a LOT. But that's OK. We're not addicted, we can quit anytime! Related Links: Books mentioned*: The Promise of Stardust by Priscille Sibley The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong by Brené Brown A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Bed Stuy: A Love Story by Jerry McGill 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard Alice Hoffman the Collected Novels - two collections, 4 books each Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney The People We Keep by Allison Larkin We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza The Storyteller by Dave Grohl A Little Hope by Ethan Joella The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman Magic Lessons, The Rules of Magic, Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman Ghosts by Dolly Alderton I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins Rocket Fuel by Gino Wickman Traction by Gino Wickman Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier Wild Like the Foxes by Anauta The New Big Book of U.S. Presidents 2020 Edition: Fascinating Facts About Each and Every President by Running Press Take What You Can Carry by Gian Sardar From Freezer to Cooker: Delicious Whole-Foods Meals for the Slow Cooker, Pressure Cooker, and Instant Pot by Polly Conner and Rachel Tiemeyer Teaching from Rest by Sarah Mackenzie Billy Summers by Stephen King Every Last Secret by A. R. Torre Mother Trucker by Amy Butcher From Sand and Ash by Amy Harmon * The books noted above contain affiliate links. This means that we may get a small kickback if you purchase through our links, at no additional cost to you. Click here to join our brand new Patreon to get extra bookish goodies like bonus episodes, end of year rating guides, book club, and more!

WURD host Charles Ellison chats with Jo Piazza and Christine Pride about their groundbreaking novel "We Are Not Like Them."

Sorry for the rough audio! The mic didn't work.Subscribe on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQX-nWBQWKL3lnx52f3AuCwBOOKS MENTIONED: “Take Me Home Tonight” by Morgan Matsonhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55710525-take-me-home-tonight “Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning” by Cathy Park Honghttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52845775-minor-feelings?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=rB3pwTfFmo&rank=1 “We Are Not Like Them” by Christine Pride and Jo Piazzahttps://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/56898303 “Apples Never Fall” by Liane Moriartyhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56143578-apples-never-fall?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=iWnLbdhooI&rank=1 “Fight Night” by Miriam Toewshttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56978048-fight-night?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=Jr7XgSF9pk&rank=1FOLLOW ME ON…GOODREADS:https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/58041478-iliketoreadpodINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/iliketoreadpod/TWITTER: https://twitter.com/rpolansky77FACEBOOK:https://www.facebook.com/iliketoreadpodMEDIA MAVEN BLOG:https://rpolansky77.wixsite.com/website

Christine Pride is an editor with 15 years experience with the likes of Doubleday and Simon & Schuster, and Jo Piazza is the award-winning author of nine novels. Together they have written an extraordinary novel, We Are Not Like Them, which touches on themes of race and friendship. They tell us how the book came about, and how they worked together, and the challenges of writing two perspectives.

Christine Pride is an editor with 15 years experience with the likes of Doubleday and Simon & Schuster, and Jo Piazza is the award-winning author of nine novels. Together they have written an extraordinary novel, We Are Not Like Them, which touches on themes of race and friendship. They tell us how the book came […] The post EP351: Christine Pride & Jo Piazza — Communication is the Key appeared first on The Bestseller Experiment.

Show notes: Doesn't October seem like the perfect month to do some reading? I mean, every month is good for reading, but you get it. Cozy, crisp weather. Early dusk. It's like… the setting of every good horror movie! But I digress. Here are 10 books we read and loved (mostly) in October.  We actually read MORE than 10, so if you're interested in hearing about the other books, you should join our Patreon for that and other bookish goodies. Oh, did I let the cat out of the bag? SURPRISE. We have a Patreon account now! Related Links: Books mentioned*: A Spell of Rowans by Byrd Nash The Lighthouse by Christopher Parker Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer Memory Road Trip by Krista Marson We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride, Jo Piazza The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman Love in the City by Jen Morris The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling * The books noted above contain affiliate links. This means that we may get a small kickback if you purchase through our links, at no additional cost to you. Click here to join our brand new Patreon to get extra bookish goodies like bonus episodes, end of year rating guides, book club, and more!

THE THREE RONNIES EPISODEHEADS TOGETHER is the monthly magazine show on CRIME TIME FM. PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss the Crime Time FM WATCHLIST, author duos, short stories and the latest podcasts .PAUL BURKE writes about crime fiction for Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine, Crime Time and the European Literature Network.VICTORIA SELMAN is the bestselling author of the Ziba MacKenzie series killer thrillers. Her new thriller Truly, Darkly, Deeply will be published in 2022.BARRY FORSHAW is the editor of Crime Time, author of several books on film and crime fiction and the FT Crime Fiction Critic.The Watchlist:Lemon Kwon Yeo-sun56 Hours Katherine Ryan HowardSilverview John le CarréRiccardino Andrea CamilleriJudas 62 Charles CummingThe Hood Lavie TidharThe Study Graeme McCrea Burnett We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride & Jo PiazzaThe Stoning Peter PapathanasiouProduced by JUNKYARD DOGMusic courtesy of Southgate & LeighCrime Time

In Episode 97, Christine Pride and Jo Piazza share how their co-authored novel (We Are Not Like Them) explores how hard it is to have conversations about difficult topics even between dear friends.  We discuss why they decided to write a book with a lifelong, interracial friendship at its core, and how they handled collaborating on a book with a plot revolving around a fraught topic.   This post contains affiliate links, through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). Highlights How they met and began their professional relationship. Who had the initial idea for We Are Not Like Them. How they decided to go from an editor/writer relationship to co-writing and what that looked like for them. Why it was important to work collaboratively on both main characters, rather than each taking one. Christine's and Jo's own challenges while working on this novel. How they handled any “creative friction” that came up. How the discussions around character development really opened up how they had to consider race on the page. How their own personal experiences and perspectives really informed both characters They share some key thoughts to having these important conversations. The surprising but similar reaction from both Black and white readers. They also share a little teaser about the next book they are writing together. Christine's and Jo's Book Recommendations [32:55] Two OLD Books They Love Christine: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [33:23] Jo: In Five Years by Rebecca Serle | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [36:21] Two NEW Books They Love Christine: No Cure for Being Human by Kate Bowler | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [38:05] Jo: Matrix by Lauren Groff | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org[40:42] Other Books Mentioned: Everything Happens for a Reason by Kate Bowler [38:13] Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff [42:01] Bonus Pick: Three Girls from Bronzeville by Dawn Turner [42:42] Two Books They DIDN'T LOVE Christine: The Push by Ashley Audrain | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [44:26] Jo: Her thoughts on sharing books she doesn't like. [48:47] Other Books Mentioned: The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller [48:18] Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl [48:20] Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens [49:53] Two NEW RELEASES They're Excited About Christine: I Hope This Finds You Well by Kate Baer (November 9, 2021) | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [50:14] Jo: Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult (November 30, 2021) | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [53:16] Other Books Mentioned: 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard [53:51] Voices from the Pandemic by Eli Saslow [54:02] Last 5 Star Books They Read Christine: Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [54:43] Jo: Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead | Buy from Amazon | Buy from Bookshop.org [54:54] Other Book Mentioned Marriage Vacation by Pauline Brooks [5:09]

On today's episode of our books podcast, Late Night's Sarah Jenks-Daly speaks with Jo Piazza & Christine Pride, authors of the novel We Are Not Like Them. She also talks to photographer and filmmaker Gillian Laub about her new book Family Matters.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We discuss We Are Not Like Them, how they started writing the book together and what their writing process looked like, encouraging people to have more in-depth conversations on race, why storytelling induces empathy, being selected as the October Good Morning America book club selection, the editorial process, and much more. Their joint recommended reads are: Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead No Cure for Being Human by Kate Bowler Christine's recommended reads are: Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaoouad Jo's recommended read is: Three Girls from Bronzeville by Dawn Turner Support the podcast by becoming a Page Turner on Patreon.  Other ways to support the podcast can be found here.   Thanks to Maggie Garza of HTX Real Estate Group for sponsoring this episode. If you enjoyed this episode and want to listen to more episodes, try Jason Mott, Sanjena Sathian, Kim Neville, Nancy Johnson, and Bianca Marais. We Are Not like Them can be purchased at the Conversations from a Page Bookshop storefront.        Connect with me on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jo Piazza joins the show for LOJ Book Club to talk about her new book, We Are Not Like Them.

Kate and Doree reveal their current skincare lineup and their favorite prods. Then, authors and best friends Jo Piazza and Christine Pride join the podcast to talk about how clothes can change your whole outlook, how their relationship led them to write their book We Are Not Like Them, and how they learned to communicate through the comments feature in a shared Google doc. To leave a voicemail or text for a future episode, reach them at 781-591-0390. You can also email the podcast at forever35podcast@gmail.com.Visit forever35podcast.com for links to everything they mention on the show.Follow the podcast on Twitter (@Forever35Pod) and Instagram (@Forever35Podcast) and join the Forever35 Facebook Group (Password: Serums). Sign up for the newsletter! At forever35podcast.com/newsletter This episode is sponsored by:HOMEGOODS - Go Finding at HomeGoods today. STRIVECTIN - Learn more at StriVectin.com. Email subscribers receive 15% off their first order.JENNI KAYNE - Get 15% off your first order at jennikayne.com when you use code FOREVER35 at checkout.GROVE - Go to Grove.CO/FOREVER35 to choose a FREE gift with your first order of $30 or more.BETTER HELP - Get 10% off your first month with the discount code FOREVER35. Go to betterhelp.com/FOREVER35 to get started today.OAK ESSENTIALS - Go to oakessentials.com and use promo code FOREVER35 for 15% off your first product! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jo Piazza and Christine Pride, co-authors of We Are Not Like Them, join Zibby to talk about their book, their relationship, and what is next for each of them. Jo and Christine share that although many people are focusing on the role race plays in their novel, they wanted to make sure their story addressed a number of the hot-button issues that affect modern friendships. The pair also tell Zibby about how they blurred the lines between writer and editor to become a duo so compatible that they only ever plan to collaborate with one another.Purchase on Amazon or Bookshop.Amazon: https://amzn.to/3ER60E1Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3zKavwf See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"Now these women, they can WRITE!" -Terry McMillan, New York Times bestselling author of It's Not All Downhill from Here "We Are Not Like Them will stay with you long after you turn the last page." -Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me Told from alternating perspectives, an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond between two women, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event-a powerful and poignant exploration of race in America today and its devastating impact on ordinary lives. Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. As adults, they remain as close as sisters, though their lives have taken different directions. Jen married young, and after years of trying, is finally pregnant. Riley pursued her childhood dream of becoming a television journalist and is poised to become one of the first Black female anchors of the top news channel in their hometown of Philadelphia. But the deep bond they share is severely tested when Jen's husband, a city police officer, is involved in the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager. Six months pregnant, Jen is in freefall as her future, her husband's freedom, and her friendship with Riley are thrown into uncertainty. Covering this career-making story, Riley wrestles with the implications of this tragic incident for her Black community, her ambitions, and her relationship with her lifelong friend. Like Tayari Jones's An American Marriage and Jodi Picoult's Small Great Things, We Are Not Like Them explores complex questions of race and how they pervade and shape our most intimate spaces in a deeply divided world. But at its heart, it's a story of enduring friendship-a love that defies the odds even as it faces its most difficult challenges.

"Now these women, they can WRITE!" -Terry McMillan, New York Times bestselling author of It's Not All Downhill from Here "We Are Not Like Them will stay with you long after you turn the last page." -Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me Told from alternating perspectives, an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond between two women, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event-a powerful and poignant exploration of race in America today and its devastating impact on ordinary lives. Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. As adults, they remain as close as sisters, though their lives have taken different directions. Jen married young, and after years of trying, is finally pregnant. Riley pursued her childhood dream of becoming a television journalist and is poised to become one of the first Black female anchors of the top news channel in their hometown of Philadelphia. But the deep bond they share is severely tested when Jen's husband, a city police officer, is involved in the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager. Six months pregnant, Jen is in freefall as her future, her husband's freedom, and her friendship with Riley are thrown into uncertainty. Covering this career-making story, Riley wrestles with the implications of this tragic incident for her Black community, her ambitions, and her relationship with her lifelong friend. Like Tayari Jones's An American Marriage and Jodi Picoult's Small Great Things, We Are Not Like Them explores complex questions of race and how they pervade and shape our most intimate spaces in a deeply divided world. But at its heart, it's a story of enduring friendship-a love that defies the odds even as it faces its most difficult challenges.

This week Angela welcomes Christine Pride and Jo Piazza on Lit Up to talk about their new book, We Are Not Like Them. They talk about their own interracial friendship, how it informed their book, and what it's like to write with another person. We Are Not Like Them is available now, and you can purchase it via the link on our website, LitUpPodcast.com

If you love books that make you think or spark a spirited discussion, you're on the same page as today's guests!Christine Pride and Jo Piazza have a shared passion for books where the stakes are high and the story is personal. From intimate memoirs to books featuring strong female friendships, they are looking for books that will show them something unique while evoking a strong reaction.Christine and Jo have a unique and long-lasting relationship of their own: they've worked together for years as editor & writer, and they recently embarked on a new stage of their bookish journey, jointly penning the brand-new release We Are Not Like Them.Listen in to today's conversation with Jo and Christine about books they've loved and stories that have moved them. See the full list of books we discussed on our website at whatshouldireadnextpodcast.com/302, and leave a comment with any books you think Christine and Jo would love to read and discuss!Connect with Christine on Instagram and her website; Find Jo on Instagram and Twitter.Thanks to this week's sponsors: If you're ready for a loungewear refresh, Brooklinen's bundle deals will help you get more comfort for less money. Go to Brooklinen.com and use promo code READNEXT to get $20 off, with a minimum purchase of $100.Rothy's is back with their exclusive autumn collection, featuring soft, plush, and—best of all—machine washable merino wool styles. Take $20 off your first purchase at rothys.com/READNEXT.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We Are Not Like Them shows the impact of a police shooting of an unarmed black teenager from a different angle. Two close friends, Jen and Riley, one white, one black, one the wife of the police officer responsible, one the news anchor charged with covering the story. A premise made all the more intriguing as it was written by not one author but two, Jo Piazza and Christine Pride, one white, one black, both working together to create an unflinching novel that will start conversations. Featuring: Jo Piazza, Christine Pride, Manpreet Grewal, Stephanie Heathcote

This week Angela welcomes Christine Pride and Jo Piazza on Lit Up to talk about their new book, We Are Not Like Them. They talk about their own interracial friendship, how it informed their book, and what it's like to write with another person. We Are Not Like Them is available now, and you can purchase it via the link on our website, LitUpPodcast.com

Writer, editor, and debut novelist Christine Pride and award-winning journalist, bestselling author, and podcast host of Under the Influence, Jo Piazza join Jess and Zerlina to talk about their new book “We Are Not Like Them,” a powerful and poignant exploration of race in America today and its devastating impact on ordinary lives.

Tulani Bridgewater-Kowalski is in conversation with Christine Pride and Jo Piazza about their new book, We Are Not Like Them, which is also our October Book Club pick! About the Book: Told from alternating perspectives, an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond between two women, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event--a powerful and poignant exploration of race in America today and its devastating impact on ordinary lives. More About Revel: www.hellorevel.com

Christine Pride and Jo Piazza join Amy to talk about their new book: We Are Not Like Them. This novel tackles the hot button issue of race + friendship and they hope the storyline they have created will be a great conversation starter for so many relationships.    FIRST THING: Why is it so hard to talk about race? SECOND THING: Interracial friendships and why it is so hard to make them THIRD THING: How writing a book together nearly blew up their friendship FOURTH THING: Writing a book about social justice and cancel culture in 2021 Link to purchase We Are Not Like Them: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1982181036?ref=exp_radioamy_dp_vv_d Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Hi, Should-Heads! We're joined by our friend Kathy to share some of the best releases out in October! We also discuss being intentional with reading choices and oh hey, did you know Julia had a birthday recently? Currently reading: Julia: Defy the Night (Brigid Kemmerer) and Please Don't Sit on my Bed In Your Outside Clothes (Phoebe Robinson)Kelly: As if on Cue (Marisa Kanter)Rachael: Rock Paper Scissors (Alice Feeney) and Exhausted (Nick Polizzi)   Recent acquisitions:   Julia: The Echo Wife (Sarah Gailey), The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano (Donna Freitas), Game Changer (Neal Shusterman), Fierce Self-Compassion (Kristin Neff) and The Sum of Us (Heather McGhee)Kelly: Time Will Tell (Barry Lyga), Pony (RJ Palacio), Several People Are Typing (Calvin Kasulke)Rachael: Bad Fat Black Girl (Sesali Bowen) and My Monticello (Jocelyn Nicole Johnson) Our Most Anticipated: Kathy: Not Your Average Hot Guy (Gwenda Bond), Bad Girls Never Say Die (Jennifer Mathieu), Fan Club (Erin Mayer), Capote's Women (Laurence Leamer), Squad (Maggie Tokuda-Hall) Julia: All the Feels (Olivia Dade), Well Matched (Jen DeLuca), My Monticello (Jocelyn Nicole Johnson) and Always in December (Emily Stone) Kelly: Where They Went (Scott Carson), We Are Not Like Them (Jo Piazza and Christine Pride), Frankie and Bug (Gayle Forman), Any Sign of Life (Rae Carson) and Black Birds in the Sky (Brandy Colbert) Rachael: The Storm of Echoes (Christelle Dabos), Tacos For Two (Betsy St. Almant), Femlandia (Christina Dalcher), Girlie Drinks (Mallory O'Meara) and My Monticello (Jocelyn Nicole Johnson)  Follow Kathy Coe:Blog:   http://glass-of-wine.blogspot.com/ Twitter: @kathycoe   Instagram: @glassofwine81  Follow What You Should Read:Twitter:     @wysr_podcastInstagram:     @wysr_podcastGoodreads:     https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/115539912-what-you-should-read-podcastYouTube:     https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCfNtid_b0R14otSPRZTkmQwww.whatyoushouldread.com   Get two books for the price of one with a new membership to Libro.fm! Use the promo code WHATYOUSHOULDREAD and get two books for $14.99. Best of all, your indie bookstore will also benefit; just select your favorite bookstore when you sign up.  

Roxanne sits with Jo Piazza and Christine Pride to discuss their new Philly-based novel about a cross-racial friendship tested by the police shooting of a young Black teen.

In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition Publishing industry veteran Christine Pride has held a variety of editorial positions at Doubleday, Simon & Schuster, and Crown, among other publishing companies. In this capacity she has championed and edited a number of New York Times bestselling memoirs and inspirational stories. Also a freelance editorial consultant, teacher, and coach, Pride writes the ''Race Matters'' column for the popular blog Cup of Jo. A journalist, editor, and podcast host, Jo Piazza is also the author of seven novels, including Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win, If Nuns Ruled the World, and Fitness Junkie. Her other writing has been widely published in a variety of places, including The Wall Street Journal, Marie Claire, and Slate. She formerly served as a managing editor for Yahoo! Travel, the executive news director for the print and digital editions of In Touch Weekly, and the senior digital editor at Current TV. Pride and Piazza's collaborative novel tells the dual-perspective story of two lifelong friends, one Black and one white, whose bond is forever changed when the latter's police officer husband is involved in the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager. Books provided by Uncle Bobbie's Coffee and Books (recorded 10/4/2021)

Our guests today are Jo Piazza and Christine Pride, writers and interracial friends whose new, co-written novel, WE ARE NOT LIKE THEM, explores the nuances and complexities of a lifelong friendship between a white woman and a Black woman when a tragedy puts their relationship to the test. Also: adventures in magazine editor's letters, Kim wants a writing partner, Is Tinder all about spitting and choking?, and the next wave young feminists eschewing the damaging aspects of porn (Gen Z: They're Just Like Us!).Don't forget: We have a Patreon! Sign up for exclusive content, bonus EIF episodes, and invites to special events: patreon.com/everythingisfineOur show's Instagram is @eifpodcast and you can find Kim on her blog Girls of a Certain Age. We're also on Twitter @theeifpodcast and Facebook. If you like the show, please rate or review it and don't forget to share it with your favorite 40+ friends. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our guests today are Jo Piazza and Christine Pride, writers and interracial friends whose new, co-written novel, WE ARE NOT LIKE THEM, explores the nuances and complexities of a lifelong friendship between a white woman and a Black woman when a tragedy puts their relationship to the test. Also: adventures in magazine editor's letters, Kim wants a writing partner, Is Tinder all about spitting and choking?, and the next wave young feminists eschewing the damaging aspects of porn (Gen Z: They're Just Like Us!).Don't forget: We have a Patreon! Sign up for exclusive content, bonus EIF episodes, and invites to special events: patreon.com/everythingisfineOur show's Instagram is @eifpodcast and you can find Kim on her blog Girls of a Certain Age. We're also on Twitter @theeifpodcast and Facebook. If you like the show, please rate or review it and don't forget to share it with your favorite 40+ friends. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this week's episode, Annie talks about all the books she read in September. The books mentioned in this week's episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf: Matrix by Lauren Groff The Power by Naomi Alderman We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult The Survivors by Alex Schulman The Dinner by Herman Koch Blue-Skinned Gods by SJ Sindu A Place for Us by Fatima Fahreen Mirza A Burning by Megha Majumdar The Sentence by Louise Erdrich Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty Graceland, At Last by Margaret Renkl Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by Hilma Wolitzer Interview with Hilma and Meg Wolitzer 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.  A full transcript of today's episode can be found here. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast 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 Bewilderment by Richard Powers. 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 media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to www.patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.  We're so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

ABOUT WE ARE NOT LIKE THEM"Now these women, they can WRITE!" -Terry McMillan, New York Times bestselling author of It's Not All Downhill from Here"We Are Not Like Them will stay with you long after you turn the last page." -Laura Dave, New York Timesbestselling author of The Last Thing He Told MeTold from alternating perspectives, an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond between two women, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event-a powerful and poignant exploration of race in America today and its devastating impact on ordinary lives.Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. As adults, they remain as close as sisters, though their lives have taken different directions. Jen married young, and after years of trying, is finally pregnant. Riley pursued her childhood dream of becoming a television journalist and is poised to become one of the first Black female anchors of the top news channel in their hometown of Philadelphia.But the deep bond they share is severely tested when Jen's husband, a city police officer, is involved in the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager. Six months pregnant, Jen is in freefall as her future, her husband's freedom, and her friendship with Riley are thrown into uncertainty. Covering this career-making story, Riley wrestles with the implications of this tragic incident for her Black community, her ambitions, and her relationship with her lifelong friend.Like Tayari Jones's An American Marriage and Jodi Picoult's Small Great Things, We Are Not Like Themexplores complex questions of race and how they pervade and shape our most intimate spaces in a deeply divided world. But at its heart, it's a story of enduring friendship-a love that defies the odds even as it faces its most difficult challenges.ABOUT JO PIAZZAJo Piazza is a bestselling author, podcast creator and award-winning journalist. She is the author of many critically acclaimed novels and nonfiction books including Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win, The Knockoffand How to Be Married. Her work has been published in ten languages in twelve countries and four of her books have been optioned for film and television. Jo is also the creator, host and executive producer of the hit podcastsCommitted, Fierce and Under the Influence. A former editor, columnist and travel writer with Yahoo, Current TV and the New York Daily News, her work has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New York magazine, Glamour, Elle, Time, Marie Claire, the Daily Beast, and Slate. She holds an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, a master's in journalism from Columbia University, and a master's in religious studies from New York University.ABOUT CHRISTINE PRIDEChristine Pride is a writer, editor, and longtime publishing veteran. She's held editorial posts at many different trade imprints, including Doubleday, Broadway, Crown, Hyperion, and Simon & Schuster. As an editor, Christine has published a range of books, with a special emphasis on inspirational stories and memoirs, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. As a freelance editorial consultant, she does select editing and proposal/content development, as well as teaching and coaching, and pens a regular column-"Race Matters"-for Cup of Jo. She lives in New York City.Link to articles about We Are Not Like Them: https://people.com/human-interest/voices-against-racism-jo-piazza-christine-pride-novel-inspired-by-their-own-interracial-friendship/https://www.thebookseller.com/blogs/reading-cure-1275853ABOUT JO PIAZZA'S PODCAST UNDER THE INFLUENCEUnder the Influence is a deep dive into the Mom Internet, a place haunted by aspirational marketing where it feels like every other mom is a social media influencer trying to sell you something, all while posed in white kitchens that never seem to get messy. with toddlers in cloth diapers that never ever leak; a bastion of carefully curated lives that are #blessed.And behind this airbrushed perfection is money, so much money. Billions and billions of dollars. Journalist and mom Jo Piazza looks at how we got here, what it all means and how the commodification of motherhood is driving mothers a little insane. And through it all she wonders whether or not she has what it takes to join the ranks of the momstagrammers, if she too can make thousands of dollars off beautiful photos of bath time, frolic-ing in fields of purple flowers and posing her newborn next to a beautiful latte.Episodes here: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-under-the-influence-with-76687187/

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

Diving too much into everything social media offers, to some extent, can be considered a self-sabotaging act. It makes you compare and aspire to ideals that aren't entirely in tune with what's real. Today, Bestselling Author and Award-Winning Journalist, Jo Piazza, shares a different perspective. In this episode, Jo shares about her podcast, “Under the Influence,” her upcoming book she co-wrote with friend, Christine Pride entitled "We Are Not Like Them," her thoughts on mom influencers, and those who spend so much of their time spectating on social media. For Jo, to limit the influence of social media on one's personal life, a mindful use should be practiced. If even Beyonce doesn't make you feel good, unfollow her!    Find out how you can limit the influence of influencers in this episode of the Mamas in Training Podcast with Jo Piazza!   Click HERE for the Full Show Notes ___________________________________________________ FOLLOW on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mamasintrainingpod/ WRITE a Review: https://www.mamasintraining.com/reviews/new/ JOIN our Facebook Community: https://urlgeni.us/facebook/mamasintrainingpod