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We’re excited to bring you a special clip from Well-Read Black Girl, hosted by Glory Edim. Well-Read Black Girl is the literary kickback you never knew you needed. Each week, Glory sits in deep, honest and close conversation with authors like Tarana Burke, Min Jin Lee, Anita Hill, Gabrielle Union, Elizabeth Acevedo and more. You’ll also meet WRBG Book Club members, literacy advocates, and Black booksellers to hear what they’re reading and what it means to be well-read. Join Glory through this current cultural moment – where art, justice and literature collide – and pay homage to the literary legacies of the women who paved the way. You’ll laugh, cry, connect and build space for kinship in a shared love of literature. Tune in, turn the page, and join the celebration.

 

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Preview: Well-Read Black Girl Podcast, with Glory Edim

We’re excited to bring you a special clip from Well-Read Black Girl, hosted by Glory Edim. Well-Read Black Girl is the literary kickback you never knew you needed. Each week, Glory sits in deep, honest and close conversation with authors like Tarana Burke, Min Jin Lee, Anita Hill, Gabrielle Union, Elizabeth Acevedo and more. You’ll also meet WRBG Book Club members, literacy advocates, and Black booksellers to hear what they’re reading and what it means to be well-read. Join Glory through this current cultural moment – where art, justice and literature collide – and pay homage to the literary legacies of the women who paved the way. You’ll laugh, cry, connect and build space for kinship in a shared love of literature. Tune in, turn the page, and join the celebration. Subscribe now in Stitcher, Apple, or wherever you listen: <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/show/wellread-black-girl-with-glory-edim" target="_blank">https://www.stitcher.com/show/wellread-black-girl-with-glory-edim</a> <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/well-read-black-girl-with-glory-edim/id1591263597" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/well-read-black-girl-with-glory-edim/id1591263597</a>

Our Season 3 finale opens with “<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theparisreview.org/poetry/7393/the-trick-is-to-pretend-natalie-scenters-zapico__;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!Yd5gmnz3oSGEvCXkkinNAdcuvSm_ek-ucpntw_nSiZOerhq2QltRFVAY-hTHG37PQZvrxKAdfTG66hic5E8V$">The Trick Is to Pretend</a>,” a poem by Natalie Scenters-Zapico, read by the singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers: “I climb knowing the only way down / is by falling.” The actor Jessica Hecht plays Joan Didion in a reenactment of her classic <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theparisreview.org/interviews/3439/the-art-of-fiction-no-71-joan-didion__;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!Yd5gmnz3oSGEvCXkkinNAdcuvSm_ek-ucpntw_nSiZOerhq2QltRFVAY-hTHG37PQZvrxKAdfTG66rYPEo2d$">Art of Fiction interview</a> with Linda Kuehl. Jericho Brown reads his poem “<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theparisreview.org/poetry/7230/hero-jericho-brown__;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!Yd5gmnz3oSGEvCXkkinNAdcuvSm_ek-ucpntw_nSiZOerhq2QltRFVAY-hTHG37PQZvrxKAdfTG66o9w3lcB$">Hero</a>”: “my brothers and I grew up fighting / Over our mother’s mind.” The actor, comedian, and podcaster Connor Ratliff reads Bud Smith’s “<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/7565/violets-bud-smith__;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!Yd5gmnz3oSGEvCXkkinNAdcuvSm_ek-ucpntw_nSiZOerhq2QltRFVAY-hTHG37PQZvrxKAdfTG66m50JkJ0$">Violets</a>,” the story of two unlikely arsonists rediscovering life in the flames. The episode closes with Bridgers performing “Garden Song.”
 
To hear more from Connor Ratliff, check out his podcast <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://headgum.com/dead-eyes__;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!Yd5gmnz3oSGEvCXkkinNAdcuvSm_ek-ucpntw_nSiZOerhq2QltRFVAY-hTHG37PQZvrxKAdfTG66rlvxl46$">Dead Eyes</a>. To hear Avery Trufelman’s latest show, find the podcast <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/nice-try__;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!Yd5gmnz3oSGEvCXkkinNAdcuvSm_ek-ucpntw_nSiZOerhq2QltRFVAY-hTHG37PQZvrxKAdfTG66tQYMwYK$">Nice Try!</a>
 “Hero” by Jericho Brown appears courtesy of the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center.
 
This episode was sound designed and mixed by Hannis Brown, and mastered by Justin Shturtz.

23. A Strange Way to Live (with Phoebe Bridgers, Connor Ratliff, Joan Didion, Natalie-Scenters Zapico, Bud Smith, Jericho Brown, Jessica Hecht, Avery Trufelman)

In an essay specially commissioned for the podcast, Aisha Sabatini Sloan describes rambling around Paris with her father, Lester Sloan, a longtime staff photographer for Newsweek, and a glamorous woman who befriends them. In an excerpt from <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7535/the-art-of-fiction-no-246-rachel-cusk__;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!IaTc-Xk8-muV5VaAVyoLqSUCkzCDYUgm2i8eYc4wCLfsP4-VQbkD45XSDYoyxQ$">The Art of Fiction no. 246</a>, Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti discuss how writing her first novel helped Cusk discover her “shape or identity or essence.” Next, Allan Gurganus’s reading of his story “<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/2848/it-had-wings-allan-gurganus__;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!IaTc-Xk8-muV5VaAVyoLqSUCkzCDYUgm2i8eYc4wCLfsP4-VQbkD45Vn1_FwXg$">It Had Wings</a>,” about an arthritic woman who finds a fallen angel in her backyard, is interspersed with a version of the story rendered as a one-woman opera by the composer Bruce Saylor. The episode closes with “Dear Someone,” a <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/6009/dear-someone-deborah-landau__;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!IaTc-Xk8-muV5VaAVyoLqSUCkzCDYUgm2i8eYc4wCLfsP4-VQbkD45Wlt23yBQ$">poem</a> by Deborah Landau.
 
To check out Captioning the Archives, the book Aisha Sabatini Sloan created with her father, Lester Sloan, visit <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/captioning-the-archives__;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!L2YKKk0gaYqyUFwJs_s7rSeV1y-cZCMD4NKqH6m32uQyLUBAv-nq0RNPhvRJjPzmVRI$">McSweeney’s</a>.
 
This episode was sound designed and mixed by John DeLore, and mastered by Justin Shturtz.

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