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A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots New York Times bestselling and National Magazine Award-winning author Morgan Jerkins will be at the Main Library this October to discuss Wandering in Strange Lands, the powerful story of her journey to understand her northern and southern roots, the Great Migration, and the displacement of black people across America. She will be the first featured Lit Chat author in the Library's new African American History series of community programs. The project, in part, seeks to expand the Library's African American History Collection and the associated Digital Community Archive and to make customers aware of all the FREE family research and local history resources available to them in the Special Collections Department at the Main Library, including the newly-expanded Memory Lab. For more information about how you can contribute materials to Special Collections or use these publicly-available resources to trace your family roots, research the history of your home or neighborhood and more, please click on this link. Morgan Jerkins's most recent book is the novel Caul Baby, an Amazon Best Book of 2021. Her other books are Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots, one of Time's must-read books of 2020, and This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America, a New York Times Bestseller. As a journalist, she's written about the internet, intersecting social issues and popular media through celebrity profiles and interviews, reportage, commentary, and personal essays. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Vanity Fair, among others. She's won two National Magazine Awards and was a Forbes 30 Under 30 Leader in Media. Jerkins is also a filmmaker. Her debut short film, Black Madonna, which she wrote and co-directed, was selected at the Big Apple Film Festival, Pan African Film & Arts Festival, and NewFilmmakers Los Angeles. She teaches Creative Writing at Princeton University, where she also holds a Bachelor's in Comparative Literature. She has an MFA from Bennington College, and has taught at Columbia University, Pacific University, The New School, and Leipzig University, where she was the Guest Picador Professor. Based in New York City, she was born and raised in New Jersey. Interviewer Prof. Tammy Cherry has taught at Florida State College at Jacksonville as an English professor for 22 years. Along with composition classes, Tammy teaches African American literature and honors classes. She is a lifelong Jacksonville resident and recently served as co-host for the WJCT podcast Bygone Jax. Praise for Morgan Jerkins's Books “In Morgan Jerkins's remarkable debut essay collection, This Will Be My Undoing, she is a deft cartographer of black girlhood and womanhood. From one essay to the next, Jerkins weaves the personal with the public and political in compelling, challenging ways... With this collection, she shows us that she is unforgettably here, a writer to be reckoned with.” — Roxanne Gay “[A] forthright and informative account. . . . Jerkins's careful research and revelatory conversations with historians, activists, and genealogists result in a disturbing yet ultimately empowering chronicle of the African-American experience. Readers will be moved by this brave and inquisitive book.” — Publishers Weekly on Wandering in Strange Lands “Morgan Jerkins' fantastic, expansive novel of mothers and daughters and Harlem, Caul Baby, is a meditation on the limits of inheritance and legacy. It's also a love letter to a rapidly changing neighborhood.”— Kaitlyn Greenidge Check out Morgan's works from the library! Continue Reading MORGAN RECOMMENDS Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado FEM by Magda Carneci THE LIBRARY RECOMMENDS Dear Ijeawele, or, A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper  Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories From Black Women on Identity, Healing, and Self-Trust by Chloe Dulce Louvouezo  A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining by Rachel E Cargle  Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine  The Love Song of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers  These Ghost are Family by Maisy Card  Neighbors and Other Stories by Diane Oliver  The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton  --- Never miss an event! Sign up for email newsletters at https://bit.ly/JaxLibraryUpdates  Jacksonville Public LibraryWebsite: https://jaxpubliclibrary.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jaxlibrary Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JaxLibrary/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaxlibrary/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/jaxpubliclibraryfl Contact Us: jplpromotions@coj.net 

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit lyz.substack.comThis season, we brought back my friend and the wildly talented author Morgan Jerkins to talk about sex, dating, love, and heartbreak all while reading your emails.Morgan Jerkins is the New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing, Wandering in Strange Lands, and Caul Baby. A newly minted Brooklynite, Jerkins has taught at Columbia Univer…

On this episode of Black & Published, Nikesha is speaking with writer, editor, and New York Times Bestselling author Morgan Jerkins. Jerkins, who previously wrote the essay collection, This Will Be My Undoing and the memoir Wandering in Strange Lands, marks her fiction debut with Caul Baby. The Senior Culture Editor for ESPN's The Undefeated and a visiting professor at Columbia University, Jerkins' work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, ELLE, Esquire and more. She is currently based in Harlem. During the interview Jerkins' opens up about how her memoir helped inspire parts of her novel and why she chose to examine Black motherhood with such intensity. She also discusses the undercurrent of displacement that drives the motivations of her characters, how women make an enterprise out of their bodies, and why when she's all written out, first and foremost, she wants to be remembered. ***Follow @Nikesha_Elise on Twitter and Instagram and check out her latest novel Beyond Bourbon Street available everywhere books are sold. Don't forget to subscribe to Black & Published on your podcast platform of choice as well as rate and review. If you have thoughts, feedback, or questions about the episode, hit us up at @blkandpublished on Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag #blackandpublished. Support the show

Olivia and Raven talk about the right and wrong ways to share and uplift the stories of marginalized communities.   Email us! intersectionalinsights@gmail.com. Follow us!   Twitter @I_squaredpod https://twitter.com/I_SquaredPod Instagram https://www.instagram.com/isquaredpodcast/ Facebook page http://www.fb.me/ISquaredPod   Discussion Summary: 00:32: Episode begins, and the increasing importance, in media, of sharing perspectives outside of the norms. 03:24: The right and wrong ways to share and support stories of communities you don't belong to. 11:53: What's problematic with films like “Girl,” discussed in Essay 8 of Morgan Jerkins' book “This Will Be My Undoing.” 16:40: Black as a cultural identity, and the importance of confronting uncomfortable parts of black people's stories. 20:05: The fallacy that social progress requires ignoring race. 26:13: The importance of having the space to be unapologetically black, and how much we have to diminish our black personhood in white majority spaces. 34:41: How soon children are racialized. 39:55: Issues with the way the documentary “Babies” displays children's upbringing in different cultures. 44:01: Americans' tendency not to connect with cultures from other nations. 46:04: Being considerate with your purpose behind sharing someone's story. 49:49: Outro.   Music credits: Opening: Goestories - Noir Et Blanc Vie Closing: First Class - DJ Williams

Olivia and Raven talk about the stresses and responsibilities of being the first or the only member of a community in a space.   Discussion Summary 0:33: Episode begins, and opening the discussion with some noteworthy points from Morgan Jerkins' book “This Will Be My Undoing.” 03:54: Breaking down the quote: "you are thrust out into the open to perpetuate the lie that America is the land of equal opportunity." 09:06: How tokenism can benefit people in marginalized groups, and the responsibility this puts on tokenized individuals. 11:34: The inability to be viewed as an individual when you're tokenized. 14:28: The balancing act of fighting for change, but also being broken down by others' resistance to change. 21:08: Viewing inclusion as an enriching or educational experience. 28:29: The lack of consideration for emotional labor and time when asking personal questions. 34:51: What it means to play offense and defense when it comes to diversity and inclusion. 39:33: When requesting accommodations or additional support is considered ungrateful, and Olivia shares her thoughts on the term “accommodations.” 45:02: Having to choose your battles when advocating for change, and the expectation to accommodate the majority when you belong to a marginalized group. 51:53: The validity of responding to questions with “Google is free.” 53:19: Outro.   Social media: Twitter @I_squaredpod, Facebook page, Instagram.   Music credits: Opening: Goestories - Noir Et Blanc Vie Closing: First Class - DJ Williams  

On this episode of Black & Published, Nikesha is speaking with writer, editor, and New York Times Bestselling author Morgan Jerkins. Jerkins, who previously wrote the essay collection, This Will Be My Undoing and the memoir Wandering in Strange Lands, marks her fiction debut with Caul Baby. The Senior Culture Editor for ESPN's The Undefeated and a visiting professor at Columbia University, Jerkins' work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, ELLE, Esquire and more. She is currently based in Harlem.  Episode NotesOn this episode of Black & Published, Nikesha is speaking with writer, editor, and New York Times Bestselling author Morgan Jerkins. Jerkins, who previously wrote the essay collection, This Will Be My Undoing and the memoir Wandering in Strange Lands, marks her fiction debut with Caul Baby. The Senior Culture Editor for ESPN's The Undefeated and a visiting professor at Columbia University, Jerkins' work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, ELLE, Esquire and more. She is currently based in Harlem. During the interview Jerkins' opens up about how her memoir helped inspire parts of her novel and why she chose to examine Black motherhood with such intensity. She also discusses the undercurrent of displacement that drives the motivations of her characters, how women make an enterprise out of their bodies, and why when she's all written out, first and foremost, she wants to be remembered. ***Follow @Nikesha_Elise on Twitter and Instagram and check out her latest novel Beyond Bourbon Street available everywhere books are sold. Don't forget to subscribe to Black & Published on your podcast platform of choice as well as rate and review. If you have thoughts, feedback, or questions about the episode, hit us up at @blkandpublished on Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag #blackandpublished. 

First, Renee shares her top five ride-or-die authors, or the five authors whose work she'll read no matter what. You'll probably recognize them because when Renee loves something, she forces it on everyone she knows. Then Mariquita reviews Claire Fuller's newest book, Unsettled Ground, published May 18th. Unsettled Ground tells the story of adult twin siblings navigating a new normal after the death of their mother, and discovering that they may have to rely on others, a frightening and foreign prospect, for the help they need, even as it becomes increasingly clear that the stories they've known all their lives may not be as stable as they've seemed. Follow and support our hosts Renee: Instagram Mariquita: Instagram   Mentioned in this episode: This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins Wandering in Strange Lands by Morgan Jerkins Caul Baby by Morgan Jerkins Renee's interview with Morgan Jerkins Natalia's interview with Morgan Jerkins Ashley's review of Caul Baby Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Mad Bad and Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed Internment by Samira Ahmed Renee's interview with Samira Ahmed Wordslut by Amanda Montell Cultish by Amanda Montell Renee's interview with Amanda Montell We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz The Lost Night by Andrea Bartz The Herd by Andrea Bartz Renee's interview with Andrea Bartz for The Lost Night Renee's interview with Andrea Bartz for The Herd You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson Renee's interview with Leah Johnson We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry Renee's interview with Quan Barry After the Last Border by Jessica Goudeau Renee's interview with Jessica Goudeau Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller Thank you to Kobo for sponsoring today's show. Get your free audiobook and 30% of your next three months at www.kobo.com/feministbc.   Join Feminist Book Club for June! Beyond the Box: Our weekly round-up of blog and podcast content delivered directly to your inbox every Friday   This episode was edited 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.

Presented in partnership with CityLit Project. Morgan Jerkins is in conversation with Teri Henderson about her work. In this talk, Jerkins discusses her literary journey, culminating in the release of her newest work, Caul Baby. Following the critical and popular success of her first two books of nonfiction, New York Times bestselling author Morgan Jerkins returns with her electrifying fiction debut, Caul Baby, a family saga filled with secrets, betrayal, intrigue, and magic. Desperate to be a mother after multiple pregnancies have ended in heartbreak, Laila turns to the Melancons, an old and powerful Harlem family known for their caul, a precious layer of skin that is the secret source of their healing power. When the deal for Laila to acquire a piece of caul to protect her baby falls through and her child is stillborn, she is overcome with grief and rage and blames the family for the loss. What she doesn’t know is that she has another connection to the Melancons: her niece, Amara, an ambitious college student, soon secretly delivers a baby girl she names Hallow and gives her to the Melancons to raise as one of their own. Hallow is special, born with a caul, and the Melancons’ matriarch believes she will restore the family’s waning prosperity. As a child, Hallow is sheltered in the Melancons’ decrepit brownstone, but as she grows up, she to become suspicious of the Melancon women, particularly wondering about Josephine, the woman she calls mother, and the matriarch, Maman, who only seems to care about Hallow’s caul. As the Melancons’ desperation to maintain their status grows, Amara, now a successful lawyer running for district attorney, looks for a way to avenge her longstanding grudge against the family for their crime against her beloved aunt Laila. When mother and daughter finally cross paths, Hallow must decide where her loyalty lies. Morgan Jerkins is the author of Wandering in Strange Lands and the New York Times bestseller This Will Be My Undoing and a Senior Culture Editor at ESPN’s The Undefeated. Jerkins is a visiting professor at Columbia University and a Forbes 30 Under 30 leader in media, and her short-form work has been featured in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Elle, Esquire, and the Guardian, among many other outlets. She is based in Harlem. Teri Henderson (b. Fort Worth, TX, 1990) is a curator, co-director of WDLY, and writer. Henderson holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Texas Christian University. She formerly held a curatorial internship at Ghost Gallery in Seattle, Washington. During that time she also helped launch the social media campaign for the non-profit access to justice platform PopUpJustice!. She also previously served as the Art Law Clinic Director for Maryland Volunteer Lawyers For The Arts. She was published in the St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture. Her work as co-director of WDLY addresses shrinking the gap between the spaces that contemporary artists of color inhabit and the resources of the power structures of the art world through the curation and artistic production of events. Henderson recently founded the Black Collagists Arts Incubator. Henderson is currently a staff writer for BmoreArt as well as the Connect+Collect gallery coordinator. Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a bequest from The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund. Recorded On: Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Morgan Jerkins is an author, editor and essayist. Her first book, the essay collection This Will Be My Undoing, was published in 2018 and became a New York Times bestseller. Her new book, Wandering in Strange Lands, is a travelogue and a family memoir about the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to points north and west. Laura and Adrian talk to Morgan about memory and family, about travel and race, and about the responsibilities of the essayist and the reporter to their subjects.

"What did my people have to do to survive in order for me to exist in the first place? That is what’s great about genealogy." - Morgan Jerkins Morgan Jerkins is the author of the New York Times bestseller, This Will Be My Undoing and her newest book Wandering In Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots. A visiting professor at Columbia University and Senior Editor at ZORA, Jerkins's short form work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, ELLE, Esquire, and The Guardian, among many others. She is based in Harlem. Connect with Morgan on her Instagram or Twitter. Morgan's book recommendations:  Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy by Talia Lavin   Thank you for celebrating our 100th episode with us. Check out the ridiculous Instagram live celebration here. Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Rhino Parade. We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our October charity is March of Dimes. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our October book of the month is THE YEAR OF THE WITCHING by Alexis Henderson, who will be joining us for our discussion!   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots with Morgan JerkinsMorgan Jerkins is the author of the New York Times bestseller, This Will Be My Undoing, and the Senior Editor at ZORA. A visiting professor at Columbia University, Jerkins's short form work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, ELLE, Esquire, and The Guardian, among many others. http://www.morgan-jerkins.com The Optimist's Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age with Bina VenkataramanBina Venkataraman is the editorial page editor of The Boston Globe. Before joining the Globe, she served as a senior adviser for climate change innovation in the Obama White House, was the director of global policy initiatives at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and taught in the program on science, technology, and society at MIT. An alumna of Brown University and the Harvard Kennedy School, Bina grew up in a small town in Ohio and now lives in Boston. http://writerbina.com

Morgan Jerkins is the NYT bestselling author of This WIll Be My Undoing. She is a senior editor at Medium’s ZORA magazine. Her work has been featured in the New Yorker, Vogue, the New York Times, the Atlantic, Elle, Rolling Stone, Lenny Letter, and BuzzFeed, among many other outlets. She lives in New York. Her latest book is called Wandering In Strange Lands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Morgan Jerkins author of This Will Be My Undoing joins the podcast today to discuss her newest books Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots. Morgan shares details of the evolution of the book, the complex relationships between Black and Indigenous people, and how the lack of documentation has helped to obscure Black histories. Tune in on August 26th when we discuss Sula by Toni Morrison for The Stacks Book Club with Brit Bennett. You can find links to everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' Website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2020/08/19/ep-125-morgan-jerkins SUPPORT THE STACKS Get your copy of Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West, wherever books are sold. Libro.FM - get two audiobooks for the price of one when you use code THE STACKS at checkout. Purchasing books through Bookshop.org or

First Draft Episode #265: Christina Hammonds-Reed and Jason Reynolds Christina Hammonds-Reed, debut author of The Black Kids, is in conversation with 2020–2021 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Jason Reynolds, whose many books include All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely [listen to his First Draft interview here]), As Brave as You, For Every One, the Track series, Look Both Ways, Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You and Long Way Down, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode You can hear my previous conversation with Jason here I spoke with Morgan Jerkins, author of New York Times bestselling essay collection This Will Be My Undoing, about her recent history and memoir, Wandering in Strange Lands (listen to her First Draft interview here) Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give and On the Come Up Nic Stone, author of Dear Martin and its sequel, Dear Justyce, Odd One Out, Clean Getaway, and more (listen to her First Draft interview here) I want to hear from you! Have a question about writing or creativity for Sarah Enni or her guests to answer? To leave a voicemail, call (818) 533-1998. Subscribe To First Draft with Sarah Enni Every Tuesday, I speak to storytellers like Veronica Roth, author of Divergent; Linda Holmes, author and host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast; Jonny Sun, internet superstar, illustrator of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Gmorning, Gnight! and author and illustrator of Everyone’s an Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too;  Michael Dante  DiMartino, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender; John August, screenwriter of Big Fish, Charlie’s Angels, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; or Rhett Miller, musician and frontman for The Old 97s. Together, we take deep dives on their careers and creative works. Don’t miss an episode! Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. It’s free! Rate, Review, and Recommend How do you like the show? Please take a moment to rate and review First Draft with Sarah Enni in Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Your honest and positive review helps others discover the show -- so thank you! Is there someone you think would love this podcast as much as you do? Please share this episode on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or via carrier pigeon (maybe try a text or e-mail, come to think of it). Just click the Share button at the bottom of this post! Thanks again!

In this episode of the Sailor Moon Fan Club podcast, This Will Be My Undoing and Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots author, Morgan Jerkins, talks about how Sailor Moon took her to Japan, the importance of Sailor Moon in the Black imagination, and her new book! Follow Morgan on Twitter @MorganJerkins Read Morgan's work on ZORA: https://zora.medium.com/@morganjerkins Pre-order 'Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots': https://www.harpercollins.com/products/wandering-in-strange-lands-morgan-jerkins Mentioned in this episode Rei's real-life temple: https://manga.tokyo/columns/otaku-travel/visiting-sailor-moons-setting-of-azabu-juban/ Morgan's interview with Doris Payne https://zora.medium.com/this-88-year-old-grandmother-was-an-international-jewel-thief-52c073b9aa06 Fortune-teller Shakira on Twitter: @TheStrology_ Follow the Sailor Moon Fan Club Twitter: @mooniesclub Instagram: @moonies_club Subscribe to our newsletter on sailormoonfanclub.com Podcast editing by Tag Hatle (@redtagcomesback)

Morgan Jerkins, Author of "This Will Be My Undoing" and Senior Editor for Zora; a medium publication for women of color joins us with guest host, Magalie Laguerre-Wilkinson. They discuss the power in storytelling, The Zora Canon and upcoming new book.

On Monday, September 23rd, Longreads held our 10th anniversary celebration at Housing Works Bookstore in Manhattan. We wish you all could have been there! So, we are sharing the full audio from the event. Join us as we celebrate a milestone and showcase some amazing readers. Featuring... Morgan Jerkins, author of the New York Times bestseller, This Will Be My Undoing. Her short form work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, ELLE, and The Cut, among many others. Laura Lippman, award-winning crime novelist and New York Times bestseller. She has published more than 20 novels, a novella, a short story anthology and a book for children. Her latest book is Lady in the Lake, a crime novel set in 1960s Baltimore. Choire Sicha, editor for the Styles desk of The New York Times, and co-founder of The Awl in 2009. Author of Very Recent History. Anne Thériault, Toronto-based writer whose bylines can be found all over the internet, including at the Guardian, the London Review of Books and, obviously, Longreads. She truly believes that your favorite Tudor wife says more about you than your astrological sign, and will be happy to do a one-on-one consult with you on that. She is currently raising one child and three unruly cats. Elisabet Velasquez, a Boricua Writer from Bushwick, Brooklyn, whose work has been featured in Muzzle Magazine, Winter Tangerine, Centro Voces, Latina Magazine, We Are Mitú, Tidal, and more. Velasquez is a 2017 Poets House Fellow and the 2017 winner of Button Poetry Video Poetry Contest. Her work is forthcoming in Martín Espadas' anthology What Saves Us: Poems Of Empathy and Outrage In The Age Of Trump. She is currently working on her memoir.

Morgan Jerkins (http://www.morgan-jerkins.com/) is a journalist, author, editor, and professor at Columbia University. Her debut essay collection, This Will Be My Undoing (https://amzn.to/2XR5P9Z), exploded into the public’s consciousness last year, becoming an instant New York Times bestseller. She writes with a raw transparency and fierce sense of self-examination and revelation, sharing deeply personal, provocative stories, moments and reflections that often center around her experience as a woman of color, intersectionality, feminism, the writing life and the world of publishing, gender and race and so much more. Morgan has also been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic and is a Senior Editor at ZORA. Check out our offerings & partners: Skinsei: Visit Skinsei.com/GOODLIFE for a free diagnostic & get 20% off your first order with code GOODLIFEEverlane: Right now, you can check out our personalized collection at Everlane.com/GOODLIFE plus, you’ll get free shipping on your first order.Circle: Right now, our listeners get a limited time offer of $30 off of a Circle Home Plus, when you visit meetcircle.com/goodlife and enter GOODLIFE at checkout.

In Episode 11, Katharine from @ReadWithKat joins me to talk about living with cystic fibrosis and her real-life book club that’s been going strong for 10 years. This post contains affiliate links, through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). Highlights Are we Team Lyla or Team Tyra (Friday Night Lights)? Living with Cystic Fibrosis…and how it impacts Katharine’s reading. An online book club for readers who like to read seasonally (Bookly Club). Katharine’s real life book club, which has been together for 10 years! Why Sarah dropped out of her real life book club. Two things we think might be the secret sauce to keeping a book club thriving (and one of them is totally counterintuitive). Katharine’s experience singing karaoke with author Elizabeth Gilbert. Katharine’s Book Recommendations Two OLD Books She Loves Beartown by Fredrik Backman (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [20:59] When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi | Buy from Amazon [25:15] Two NEW Books She Loves Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper | Buy from Amazon [28:42] Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [30:40] One Book She Didn’t Love The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [34:30] One Upcoming Releases She’s Excited About City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert (Publication Date: June 4) | Buy from Amazon [37:31] Other Books Mentioned A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman | Buy from Amazon [21:29] Us Against You by Fredrik Backman (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [24:31] The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs | Buy from Amazon [27:20] This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins | Buy from Amazon [29:56] So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo | Buy from Amazon [29:56] White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo | Buy from Amazon [29:56] Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [3:54] The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [31:48] The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (My Quick Thoughts) | Buy from Amazon [33:07] Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstances by Ruth Emmie Lang | Buy from Amazon [33:07] The Secret History by Donna Tartt | Buy from Amazon [37:01] Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert | Buy from Amazon [37:35] Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert | Buy from Amazon [37:40] The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert | Buy from Amazon [37:43] The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [39:43] Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger | Buy from Amazon [43:11] The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory | Buy from Amazon [44:11] One Day in December by Josie Silver | Buy from Amazon [44:21] How to Walk Away by Katherine Center (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [44:28] Other Links The Bookly Club (Blog, Instagram) Friday Night Lights on Amazon Prime Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Sarah’s Book Club Recommendations List The Washington Post article about Paul Kalanithi’s widow and Nina Riggs’ widower finding love A Cup of Jo (Paul Kalanithi’s wife’s twin sister’s blog) About Katharine Instagram | Twitter | Blog | Goodreads Katharine lives in Baltimore with her husband and miniature schnauzer. She works in higher education doing communications, and spends the rest of her time hoarding books (and reading as many as she can). She runs the instagram account @readwithkat, and is also 1/4 of @thebooklyclub. Katharine is also a cystic fibrosis patient and advocate, sharing her story of life with CF at local events and online. Her dream is to open up a bookstore. Support the Podcast Share - If you like the podcast, I’d love for you to share it with your reader friends…in real life and on social media (there’s easy share buttons at the bottom of this post!). Subscribe...wherever you listen to podcasts, so new episodes will appear in your feed as soon as they’re released. Rate and Review - Search for “Sarah’s Book Shelves” in Apple Podcasts…or wherever you listen to podcasts! Feedback - I want this podcast to fit what you’re looking for, so I truly do want your feedback! Please tell me (email me at sarahsbookshelves@gmail.com or DM me on social media) what you like, don’t like, want more of, want less of, etc. I’d also love to hear topics you’d like me to cover and guests you’d like to hear from.

Morgan Jerkins, author of This Will Be My Undoing, talks with co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher about tackling the personal as political as a black woman author in these troubled times, nuancing what each of those terms mean. Morgan also talks about the struggle that all writers face – the voices inside our heads telling us that we can't or shouldn't – and how she found the balance between acknowledging vulnerability while embracing bravery. Also, Ijeoma Oluo returns to recommend Daniel Jose Older's young adult Shadowshaper series.

Brea and Mallory celebrate 50 episodes of Reading Glasses! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!   Reading Glasses Merch   Sponsor - Mr. Warren’s Profession by Sebastian Nothwell     Links - Live Show Tickets - Reading Glasses in conversation with Paul Tremblay! Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group   Reading Glasses Goodreads Group   Apex Magazine Page Advice Article   Amazon Wish List Podcast Recs - Black Tapes, Limetown, LUCYD, Alice Isn’t Dead, Rabbits, Pacific Northwest Stories, TED Talks, Imaginary Worlds, Invisibilia, Revisionist History, My Favorite Murder, Can I Pet Your Dog?   Books Mentioned -   The Changeling by Victor LaValle   This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins Courtney Crumrin by Ted Naifeh Asylum by Madeline Roux My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix   Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire   The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker   #girlboss by Sophia Amoruso We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Fowler Circe by Madeline Miller Yes Please by Amy Poehler Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood You Can’t Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson Shrill by Lindy West    

Show #199 | Guest: Morgan Jerkins | Show Summary: Blogger and essayist Morgan Jerkins takes on the stew of racism, misogyny, and white-dominated feminism that sidelines American black women. Her book This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America details her own coming of age in a series of sharp and fearless essays. With Angie, she discusses the exciting but treacherous world of writing; the gift of having a mom who encouraged her sexual autonomy; and the bizarre tale of Rachel Dolezal. Morgan Jerkins is a writer and contributing editor at Catapult.co, where she writes the essay series To Be Seen and Unseen. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Elle, Rolling Stone, and BuzzFeed. This Will Be My Undoing is her first book.

We discuss finding your voice and power, particularly as a black woman, with Morgan Jerkins. Her essay collection, This Will Be My Undoing, is out this week. Part memoir, it's a real time exploration of living through your 20s. Plus, Morgan shares her career journey with Amina and her exciting projects to come.

[This interview was conducted via Google Hangouts so there may be some audio variation.] Jenn speaks with Morgan Jerkins (This Will Be My Undoing) about her debut book that releases today(!), the hardships she found getting a foot in the door in publishing, Black women empowerment, how to properly pitch an editor, and how she wrote personal material that is also self-reflective in This Will Be My Undoing. [Transcription of this episode can be found on the MiP Podcast 'Episodes' page.]

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Wedding Date, This Will Be My Undoing, Our Lady of the Prairie, and more books. This episode was sponsored by The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert and Here We Lie by Paula Treick DeBoard. Find a list of the titles discussed on this episode in the shownotes.

Kim Racon calls Morgan Jerkins to talk about her forthcoming debut essay collection, THIS WILL BE MY UNDOING. Learn more: https://www.harperacademic.com/book/9780062666154/this-will-be-my-undoing.

Morgan Jerkins discusses her writing process. She lives and writes in New York.  She graduated from Princeton University with an AB in Comparative Literature, specializing in nineteenth century Russian literature and postwar modern Japanese literature, and she has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She speaks six languages. Currently, she’s a contributing editor at Catapult and a Book of the Month judge. On the freelance side, her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vogue, The New York Times, The Atlantic, ELLE, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, andBuzzFeed, among many others. Her debut essay collection, THIS WILL BE MY UNDOING, is forthcoming from Harper Perennial. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.