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This week, acclaimed authors Samira Ahmed and Jas Hammonds discuss their recent books, the state of young adult literature today, and the importance of young people seeing themselves in the stories they read. Ahmed's latest, This Book Won't Burn, is a timely and gripping social-suspense novel about book banning, activism, and standing up for what you believe. From Hammonds comes Thirsty, an unflinching novel about addiction that bestselling author Courtney Summers called "sensitively wrought and gorgeously written."This conversation originally took place May 19, 2024 and was recorded live at the American Writers Festival.AWM PODCAST NETWORK HOMEAbout the writers:SAMIRA AHMED is the bestselling author of Love, Hate & Other Filters; Internment; Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know; Hollow Fires; and the Amira & Hamza middle-grade duology, as well as a Ms. Marvel comic book mini-series. Her poetry, essays, and short stories have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies including the New York Times, Take the Mic, Color Outside the Lines, Vampires Never Get Old, and A Universe of Wishes.JAS HAMMONDS was raised in many cities and between the pages of many books. They have received support for their writing from Lambda Literary, Baldwin for the Arts, and the Highlights Foundation. They are also a grateful recipient of the MacDowell James Baldwin Fellowship. Their debut novel, We Deserve Monuments, won the 2023 Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award for New Talent, among many other accolades.
Renee sits down with one of her favorite YA authors Samira Ahmed to discuss revolutionary girls, YA thrillers, the wisdom of teenagers, and the nature of truth. Be sure to check out Samira's latest book HOLLOW FIRES, out now from Little, Brown and Company for Young Readers. Books mentioned: Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed Internment by Samira Ahmed Mad, Bad, & Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed Love, Hate, & Other Filters by Samira Ahmed Support and follow our guest and host! Follow Samira: Instagram // Twitter // Website Follow Renee: Instagram // Twitter Click here to join our online book club community! Beyond the Box: Our weekly round-up of blog and podcast content delivered directly to your inbox every Friday This episode was edited by Rah Hernandez and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people. Original music by @iam.onyxrose Learn more about Feminist Book Club on our website, sign up for our emails, shop our Bookshop.org recommendations, and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.
Samira Ahmed is the bestselling author of Love, Hate & Other Filters, Internment, Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know, and Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds, as well as a Ms. Marvel comic book mini-series. Her poetry, essays, and short stories have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies including the New York Times, Take the Mic, Color Outside the Lines, Vampires Never Get Old and A Universe of Wishes.She was born in Bombay, India, and grew up in Batavia, Illinois, in a house that smelled like fried onions, spices, and potpourri. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Samira has taught high school English in both the suburbs of Chicago and New York City, worked in education non-profits, and spent time on the road for political campaigns.Samira currently lives in the Midwest. When she's not reading or writing, she can be found on her lifelong quest for the perfect pastry.For all things Samira Ahmed visit her website. Follow her on Twitter @sam_aye_ahm. This episode was recorded on May 16 2021.Follow on Instagram - @fiveauthorquestions Follow on Twitter - @5AQpodEmail 5AQ - podcasts@kpl.gov 5AQ is produced by Jarrod Wilson. The technical producer is Brian Bankston. 5AQ is hosted by Sandra Farag and Kevin King
Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira AhmedMaya is looking forward to college as a place to dream big and follow her dreams – as in becoming a film maker. Ever since her father put a camcorder in her hands, she has been hooked. But the problem is, her parents see it as only as a hobby, not a career. With the school year winding down, and her parents clueless as to the fact that she wants to go to New York to study film, not stay in the Chicago area and be close to them, she has her work cut out for her.To add to the complication of her life, a boy that she's been crushing on for what seems like a long time, suddenly is paying attention to her. In fact, over their Spring Break vacation, they get super close. Or at least Maya thinks they are. But in the back of her mind, she knows he has a serious girlfriend, or at least they used to be serious. Maya isn't sure about a lot of things anymore.Recommended for 8th grade and up.
This is the third episode of our 2020 Book Club Podcast series. In spring 2020 the Notorious Pedagogues invited their preservice teachers as guests on the podcast to discuss their work in their book club podcast groups. In this episode Drs. Schmidt and Kruger-Ross speak with Enya, Hana, Helena, and Lindsay about Love, Hate & Other Filters by Samira Ahmed. Mentioned in this episode: Seeing White podcast series Teaching Tolerance Not Light But Fire by Matthew Kay How To Be An Antiracist & Stamped by Ibram X. Kendi
Samira Ahmed is the New York Times best-selling author of “Love, Hate & Other Filters” and “Internment.” She was born in Bombay, India, and grew up in a small town in Illinois. On “Stories, But Shorter,” Samira shares her short story “Election Day” which beautifully depicts a widowed man remembering his wife and the gift of voting on Election Day in Bombay. Afterward, Samira and Cassi discuss politics in art. Samira’s next novel “Mad, Bad and Dangerous To Know” is due in April 2020. https://samiraahmed.com New York Times “10 Young Adult Novelists Spin Fiction From Vintage Photos”
Goodreads är ett av världens största communities för läsning. Varje år anordnar Goodreads en omröstning om vilka böcker som var bäst föregående år. Och detta tänkte vi att det gör vi ett avsnitt om. Ni får tips om ett helt gäng böcker av Martin, Amanda och Annelie som verkligen är värda att kolla in! Böcker vi tipsar om i detta avsnitt är: "The Cruel Prince" av Holly Black "The Wicked King" av Holly Black "Eleanor & Park"* av Rainbow Rowell "Dumplin'" av Julie Murphy "Puddin'" av Julie Murphy "Hasselskogen" av Melissa Albert "Love, Hate & Other Filters"* av Samira Ahmed *=finns även på svenska
Brea and Mallory talk about YA books and interview author and literary agent Eric Smith. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - SquareSpace For 10% Promo Code - GLASSES Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Eric Smith The Girl and the Grove Eric's Twitter Hey YA Books Mentioned - Gumballs by Erin Nations The Graces by Laure Eve A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro Dread Nation by Justina Ireland The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas On the Come Up by Angie Thomas Warcross by Marie Lu Servants of the Storm The Agony House House of Furies by Madeleine Roux I Crawl Through It by A.S. King Ruse by Cindy Pon An Anatomy of Beasts by Olivia A. Cole Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen Internment by Samira Ahmed
Amanda and Jenn discuss LGBTQ comics, books about camping, motherhood, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, Love, Hate, and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed, and The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. Questions 1. You mentioned books on how food, habits, etc affect the brain. I am focusing on changing habits in 2019, and interested in the link of food/diet and anxiety. Can you give some New Years resolution-type book recommendations for January? There are so many gross lifestyle-y books out there, but I’m more interested in pop-science finds. I’ve personally read “Off the Clock” by Laura Vanderkam, the Brene Brown suite, I just picked up “Rest” and “Bored & Brilliant” (per this episode). I haven’t read Gretchen Rubin, but she’s on my radar. –New Year New Me 2. Hi Ladies! I LOVE this podcast, and you’ve led to me to so many books that I have loved and otherwise never would’ve found (finishing up Half-Resurrection Blues now, big thumbs up.) Next year (February 2019) I’m taking a cruise of the Mexican Riviera that leaves out of LA, and I’m spending a week in the city beforehand. I’ve never been to the West Coast, and would love some books to familiarize me with landmarks or history of the area–things that I can walk by and feel like I’m in on some secret, you know the deal. I’m a genre fiction lover–mystery, SFF, historical fiction (ideally intersecting with the former two) and I’m trying to get into romance right now. LGBT is a huge plus
Brea and Mallory talk about the art of recommending books and interview podcaster and librarian Nnekay Fitzclarke! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library The Lady from the Black Lagoon Audiobook On Kobo On Audible Bookthinkers.com Nnekay Fitzclarke Minority Korner Zyzzyva Books Mentioned - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer Calypso by David Sedaris Heart Berries by Teresa Marie Mailhot Mem by Bethany C. Morrow Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
After abuse and zombies, Brenna and Joe are psyched to dive into the adorably sweet love life of Lara Jean Song, the heroine of Jenny Han’s 2014 book To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before and the 2018 film adaptation by Susan Johnson. Come along for the frank discussion of POC representation, how the two texts balance the family vs romance storylines and heartthrob Noah Centineo (of course!) Also: A bunch of new YA BINGO squares and we gush about the pitch perfect trailer for Anne Fletcher’s Dumplin’. Meanwhile, Brenna gets excited for Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone while Joe highlights Best of Goodreads YA finalists Samira Ahmed’s Love, Hate & Other Filters and Claire Kann’s Let’s Talk About Love Connect with us on Twitter using #HKHSPod: Brenna: @brennacgray Joe: @bstolemyremote Or contact us via email at hkhspod@gmail.com. We'll see you on the page and on the screen!
We tried to go very light on the spoilers in this #unabridgedhighlights episode, but a few minor spoilers were hard to avoid as we revealed what we loved about these books.timeline *Introduction and Overview of Episode: 00:00 - 00:54 *Samira Ahmed's Love, Hate, and Other Filters: 00:55 - 16:30 *Aisha Saeed's Amal Unbound: 16:40 - 39:20 *Alan Gratz's Refugee: 39:32 - 57:33 other mentions *Clemantine Wamariya's The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After (with Elizabeth Weil) Check out what's coming up next. want to support unabridged?Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram. Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter. Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on iTunes or on Stitcher. Check us out on Podbean.
Help Us Fund Our New Studio! igg.me/at/upford Hannah's back! In this episode, we talk about Samira Ahmed’s New York Times Best-Selling novel Love Hate & Other Filters, a coming of age story about a young Muslim Indian-American woman in America. Come to BYOP: An Infemous x Upford Network event TONIGHT! https://www.facebook.com/events/212275865957150/ To suggest a book, email theyapodcast@gmail.com or tweet at us @yapodcast @tefferbear @thebailzasaurus Great Bear Music! greatbearmusic.bandcamp.com/ www.upfordnetwork.com
Join Christen and Sarah as they discuss Samira Ahmed's Love, Hate, & Other Filters on this month's episode of Young Adult at Heart: Great YA Reads for All Ages.
We speak with Samira Ahmed about her debut novel Love, Hate and Other Filters, which follows an Indian-American Muslim teen who is coping with Islamophobia, cultural divides among peers and parents, and a reality she can neither explain nor escape. Samira has taught high school English, helped create dozens of small high schools, and fought to secure billions of additional dollars to fairly fund public schools. We then rebroadcast an interview we conducted with bestselling author Philip Kerr about his novel The Lady from Zagreb, book 10 in the Bernie Gunther series, which was a finalist for an Edgar Award.
The Shape of Water leads this year's Oscars race with 13 nominations. Directed by Guillermo del Toro, it's an other-worldly fairy tale about a mute cleaner (Sally Hawkins) who falls in love with an alien-like creature imprisoned at the high-security laboratory where she works. Mark Eccleston reviews. As a blockbuster exhibition of the Terracotta Warriors opens at the World Museum in Liverpool, featuring objects from the burial ground of China's First Emperor never before seen in this country, Samira is joined by Fiona Philpott, Director of Exhibitions and Mike Pitts, editor of British Archaeology magazine.Samira is joined by another Samira Ahmed, an American writer whose latest book - Love, Hate & Other Filters - is a coming of age novel about an Muslim teenager coping with Islamophobia in her small town. As the latest series gathers momentum, Louis Wise explores the television phenomenon that is RuPaul's Drag Race, the American reality show where drag queens compete against each other to win the crown, Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Timothy Prosser.
Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings, co-authors of the New York Times bestselling sci-fi novel ZENITH, talk about battling dyslexia/ADD and chronic fatigue, why Lindsay dedicates every book she writes to her father, thinking that writers were cyborgs and/or holograms, deciding to co-write over text, and leaving the subject of their book up to a Twitter poll (but then ignoring it). Sasha Alsburg and Lindsay Cummings SHIP IT by Britta Lundin The Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare The Murder Complex by Lindsay Cummings City of Bones (movie) Lily Collins Firefly (TV show) Sasha’s book tube channel, ABookUtopia Lindsay’s book tube channel Guardians of the Galaxy (movie) Peter Knapp at Park Literary Jo Volpe at New Leaf literary The Wayside Inn Mean Girls (movie) The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Love, Hate, and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed Veronica Roth (listen to her First Draft interview here and here)
Eric and Kelly talk about love stories for YA readers, dig into the whys and hows of music and its power in YA lit, and offer up YA book recommendations for the Read Harder challenge. Sponsored by Love, Hate, and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed and The Love Letters of Abelard & Lily by Laura Creedle.
Love, Hate and Other Filters comes out on January 16th from Soho Teen. Hear the author Samira Ahmed talk about how she feels her YA debut “leans into hope.” Episode Mentions Island of the Blue Dolphins Agatha Christie Laura Ingalls … Continue reading →
Love, Hate and Other Filters comes out on January 16th from Soho Teen. Hear the author Samira Ahmed talk about how she feels her YA debut “leans into hope.” Episode Mentions * Island of the Blue Dolphins * Agatha Christie * Laura Ingalls Wilder * VC Andrews * Interpreter of the Maladies * The Namesake * Love, Hate and Other Filters * Iran Hostage Crisis * To Kill A Mockingbird * Huck Finn * Twilight * Harry Potter * Born Confused * Soho Teen * editor – Daniel Ehrenhaft * agent – Eric Smith * Eric Smith’s Episode * Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban * The Babysitters Club * Exit West