LITHours after her YA novel, American Street was longlisted for an NBA, Ibi Zoboi pulled up to chop it up about the role the black arts movement played in her life, Old Brooklyn (read: before gentrification) and the importance of paying homage to our ancestors.
Ibi Zoboi on Honoring Ancestors, Black Arts Scene, American Street and Being Longlisted for an NBALIT2017-09-20 | Hours after her YA novel, American Street was longlisted for an NBA, Ibi Zoboi pulled up to chop it up about the role the black arts movement played in her life, Old Brooklyn (read: before gentrification) and the importance of paying homage to our ancestors.Nicole Dennis-Benn on Here Comes the Sun, Patois, Sex Tourism in Jamaica, and Zora Neale HurstonLIT2017-11-15 | Writer and novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn came through to the studio to chop it up about her novel Here Comes The Sun, Zora Neale Hurston as influence, Jamaica, and why it’s necessary to tell stories in the language of the people who live them.Camonghne Felix on Growing up in the Bronx, Slam Poetry, Fred Moten, Yolk and More!LIT2017-11-08 | Poet Camonghne Felix came through to chop it up about growing up in the BX, her first chapbook, Yolk, which got a Fred Moten cosign; the difference between representational and presentational blackness,' and her forthcoming poetry collection Build Yourself a Boat!
BUY YOLK: http://penmanshipbooks.com/camonghne-felixJess Row talks Your Face in Mine, Cop Films and Whiteness as a System of DenialLIT2017-11-01 | Writer and novelist, Jess Row, came through to chop it up about his novel, Your Face In Mine; the perniciousness of police movies; whiteness as a system of denial; and the trouble that inevitable comes with telling the truth.
BUY MY MOTHER WAS A FREEDOM FIGHTER: amazon.com/My-Mother-Was-Freedom-Fighter/dp/1608467678/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1507510973&sr=8-1&keywords=my+mother+was+a+freedom+fighter FACEBOOK: facebook.com/litplatform INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/litplatform TWITTER: twitter.com/litplatform ITUNES: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lit/id1265468937?mt=2 SOUNDCLOUD: soundcloud.com/user-242724537D. Watkins on Baltimore, Sister Souljah, and Writing The Beast Side and The Cook UpLIT2017-09-27 | We had writer and educator, Baltimore's own D. Watkins pulled up to Pink Pig Productions studio to talk about The Beast Side and The Cook Up, Sistah Soulja as a literary influence, and why bringing literature to neighborhoods like his, with people who live and look like him, will always matter.Kaitlyn Greenidge on We Love You Charlie Freeman, Lenny Letter, and the Stories We Tell OurselvesLIT2017-09-26 | Writer and novelist, Kaitlyn Greenidge pulled up to talk about her debut novel, We Love you Charlie Freeman, histories we tell ourselves in order to live, writing for Lenny Letter, and getting teenagers to write.Jason Reynolds on Langston Hughes, Writing Spider-Man, and Putting Respeck on YA Writers NameLIT2017-09-25 | [Parental Discretion is Advised] Writer and YA novelist Jason Reynolds pulled up in his terry cloth interior Golden Goose kicks, kicking it with about the brilliance of Langston Hughes, the advice given to him by Walter Dean Meyers, supporting independent bookstores, writing the Spider-Man comic book, and why Young Adult writers should be reckoned with, for real for real.Safiya Sinclair on Growing up Rastafarian, Tourism in Jamaica and Poetry as an Impolite BodyLIT2017-09-21 | Poet and Whiting Award winner Safiya Sinclair pulled up and popped out in these super swaggy Alexander Wang shoes to talk about growing up Rastafarian in Montego Bay, Jamaica; poetry as an impolite body, how tourism in Jamaica disenfranchises the people of color who live there, and her poetry collection, Cannibal.
FACEBOOK: facebook.com/litplatform INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/litplatform TWITTER: twitter.com/litplatform ITUNES: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lit/id1265468937?mt=2Tyehimba Jess on Pulitzer Prize, Syncopated Sonnets, Olio, and DetroitLIT2017-08-29 | 2017 Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Tyehimba Jess pulls up with his wife Kelly Marie Jess, gives a spectacular interview on his Detroit upbringing, blues as a portal of entry for his poetry, his response to winning this year's Pulitzer for Poetry and gave us one of the most phenomenal readings of Olio.
FACEBOOK: facebook.com/litplatform INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/litplatform TWITTER: twitter.com/litplatform ITUNES: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lit/id1265468937?mt=2Carina Chocano on Playing the Girl, Virginia Woolf, and watching film with a feminist lensLIT2017-08-28 | Earlier this month, writer and film critic Carina Chocano pulled up to about killing, what Virginia Woolf called, "the Angel in the House," her grandfather's Playboy collection, and her new book You Play the Girl (HMH Books), which is in stores now!
FACEBOOK: facebook.com/litplatform INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/litplatform TWITTER: twitter.com/litplatform ITUNES: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lit/id1265468937?mt=2Tanwi Nandini Islam on debut novel Bright Lines, Hi Wildflower, and patronizing white teachersLIT2017-08-22 | In this episode, writer and perfumist Tanwi Nandini Islam chops it up about how reading Arundhati Roy helped her claim her space as a South-Asian writer, patronizing white teachers, her debut novel, Bright Lines and her perfume and cosmetic company Hi Wildflower.
FACEBOOK: facebook.com/litplatform INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/litplatform TWITTER: twitter.com/litplatform ITUNES: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lit/id1265468937?mt=2Mahogany Browne talks Oakland, poetry, Cardi B, and Black Girl MagicLIT2017-08-14 | Poet and activist, Mahogany L. Browne stops by LIT to chop it up about her Oakland upbringing, combating sexism as a hip-hop journalist, her poetry, the merits of female MCs like Lil Kim and Cardi B, her poetry collection, Redbone, and the magic of Black Girls with her new children's book, Black Girl Magic (January, 2018).