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S3, Ep. 1: Elaine Hsieh Chou & Larissa Pham
By: Elaine Hsieh Chou
Narrated by: Larissa Pham
Length: 54 minutes
The Greenlight Bookstore Podcast kicks off its third seasonâthough we remain far from the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, weâre out of quarantine! One of our first successes in this new age of author events was the standing-room-only launch for Elaine Hsieh Chouâs acclaimed debut, Disorientationâan uproarious and bighearted story of a Taiwanese... Read more
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S3, Ep. 2: Roger Reeves & A. Van Jordan
By: Roger Reeves
Narrated by: A. Van Jordan
Length: 59 minutes
Acclaimed, Whiting Award-winning poet Roger Reeves probes the apocalypses and raptures of humanityâclimate change, anti-Black racism, familial and erotic love, ecstasy and lossâin his second collection of poems, Best Barbarian. Roaming across the literary and social landscape, visiting with Beowulfâs Grendel and the jazz musician Alice Coltrane,... Read more
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S3, Ep. 3: The Octavia Project & N.K. Jemisin
By: The Octavia Project
Narrated by: N.K. Jemisin
Length: 48 minutes
As we continue to grapple with uncertainty in our world, how can writers and creators build community and make an imprint? Whose voices get heard and how can we use craft to shape a new blueprint for the future? MacArthur Fellow and author of The City We Became N. K. Jemisin joined us virtually for a night of discussion and community in support... Read more
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S3, Ep. 4: Alejandro Varela & Rumaan Alam
By: Alejandro Varela
Narrated by: Rumaan Alam
Length: 56 minutes
Greenlight welcomed author Alejandro Varela to celebrate his debut novel, The Town of Babylon--named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Literary Hub, Electric Literature, Buzzfeed, Lambda Literary, and more. Varela probes the intertwining of community and self and renders an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity in this moving,... Read more
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S3, Ep. 5: Alyssa Songsiridej & Julia Phillips
By: Alyssa Songsiridej
Narrated by: Julia Phillips
Length: 46 minutes
When the unnamed narrator of Alyssa Songsiridejâs debut novel Little Rabbit first meets a choreographer at an artists' residency in Maine, it's not a match. But when they run into each other a few months later, their encounter sets off a summer of expanding her own body's boundariesâher body learns to obediently follow his, and his desires... Read more
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Quarantine Session #107: Yanyi + Sandra Lim
By: Yanyi
Narrated by: Sandra Lim
Length: 53 minutes
We bid farewell to our âQuarantine Seasonâ of podcasts as we navigate our way back to in-person author events at Greenlight Bookstore! For our virtual seasonâs swan song, we reprise award-winning poet Yanyiâs virtual launch event for DREAM OF THE DIVIDED FIELD, a collection on heartbreak and transitions, written with a piercing lyric ferocity.... Read more
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Quarantine Session #106: NoViolet Bulawayo + Novuyo Tshuma
By: NoViolet Bulawayo
Narrated by: Novuyo Tshuma
Length: 57 minutes
In a virtual event co-presented with our friends at Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, MA, award-winning author NoViolet Bulawayo joined us to launch GLORY, her âmanifoldly clever, brilliant... satire with sharper teethâ (The NYT Book Review). Inspired by the unexpected fall by coup in November 2017 of Robert G. Mugabe, Zimbabweâs president of... Read more
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Quarantine Session #105: Rebecca Mead + Jia Tolentino
By: Rebecca Mead
Narrated by: Jia Tolentino
Length: 59 minutes
Celebrated New Yorker staff writer and author Rebecca Mead joined us virtually from across the pond to discuss her topical new memoir, Home/Landâa moving reflection on the complicated nature of home and homeland, and the heartache and adventure of leaving an adopted country in order to return to your native land. In conversation with fellow New... Read more
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Quarantine Session #104: Hawa Allan + Anjuli Raza Kolb
By: Hawa Allan
Narrated by: Anjuli Raza Kolb
Length: 58 minutes
Greenlight welcomed lawyer and critic Hawa Allan to discuss her prescient and timely debut book of nonfiction, Insurrection, a deeply researched and felt history and critique of the paradoxical state of black citizenship in the United States. Tracing the origins of the Insurrection Act of 1807 to our current moment, Allan reveals how the Act... Read more
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Quarantine Session #103: Valerie Hsiung + Ginger Ko
By: Valerie Hsiung
Narrated by: Ginger Ko
Length: 58 minutes
Acclaimed and prolific local poet Valerie Hsiung, whose work pushes past the limits of genre and grammar, joined us virtually to present her fourth full-length collection, winner of the Colorado State University Poetry Centerâs 2019 Open Book Prize. An assemblage of verse, prose poems, scenes, and performance scores, outside voices, please lives... Read more
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Quarantine Session #102: Paul Tran + Yanyi
By: Paul Tran
Narrated by: Yanyi
Length: 59 minutes
Paul Tran joined us virtually from lush, violet-lit quarters in Oakland for the virtual launch of their scintillating debut collection of poems, All the Flowers Kneeling. In a conversation with award-winning poet and critic Yanyi that both dug deeply into craft and cast its sights on the farthest horizons of becoming, they delved into the work... Read more
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Quarantine Session #101: Sarah Manguso + Elizabeth McCracken
By: Sarah Manguso
Narrated by: Elizabeth McCracken
Length: 1 hour
Sarah Mangusoâaward-winning author and one of the most acclaimed and genre-defying prose stylists working todayâjoined us virtually for the launch of her debut novel. At once an ungilded portrait of girlhood at the crossroads of history and social class as well as a vital confrontation with an all-American whiteness where the ice of emotional... Read more
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Quarantine Session #100: Marlon James + Isaac Fitzgerald
By: Marlon James
Narrated by: Isaac Fitzgerald
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
For our one-hundredth(!) podcast episode, weâre releasing a very special conversation recorded at our first offsite book launch of 2022 celebrating the second volume of Moon Witch, Spider King, award-winning author Marlon Jamesâs Dark Star trilogy, his âAfrican Game of Thronesâ. In the NYT-bestselling first volume, Black Leopard, Red... Read more
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Quarantine Session #99: Andrew Lipstein + Cara Blue Adams
By: Andrew Lipstein
Narrated by: Cara Blue Adams
Length: 55 minutes
For our first foray into livestreamed events and our first event held in-store since March 2020, Greenlight welcomed our Brooklyn neighbor Andrew Lipstein for the launch of his much-anticipated debut novel, Last Resortâwhich features a scene set in our own Fort Greene store! In a thrilling, metafictional story of fame, fortune, and impossible... Read more
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Quarantine Session #98: Grace Lavery + Elif Batuman
By: Grace Lavery
Narrated by: Elif Batuman
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Greenlight welcomed author, scholar, and activist Grace Lavery to our (virtual) stage for the launch of Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penisâa âmemoirâ like nothing youâve ever read before. Part literary theory, part musical theater parody, part feminist sci-fi reboot, Please Miss was hailed by author Torrey Peters... Read more
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Quarantine Session #97: Rachel Krantz + Jen Winston
By: Rachel Krantz
Narrated by: Jen Winston
Length: 1 hour 1 minute
When Rachel Krantz met and fell for Adam, he told her that he was looking for a committed partnershipâjust one that did not include exclusivity. In her nonfiction debut, Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy, Krantz explores these questions with an unflinching eye and page-turning storytelling, tracing her search to... Read more
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Quarantine Session #96: Bernardine Evaristo + Rumaan Alam
By: Bernardine Evaristo
Narrated by: Rumaan Alam
Length: 56 minutes
Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo (Girl, Woman, Other) graced our virtual stage from London for the U.S. launch of her new memoir Manifesto: On Never Giving Up. Manifesto offers readers an intimate and inspirational account of Evaristoâs life and career as she rebelled against the mainstream and fought bring her creative work into... Read more
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Quarantine Session #95: Colette Brooks + Jennifer Egan
By: Colette Brooks
Narrated by: Jennifer Egan
Length: 56 minutes
Acclaimed authors, Greenlight neighbors, and longtime friends Colette Brooks and Jennifer Egan (Manhattan Beach) joined us for a virtual conversation and launch for Coletteâs newest book of nonfiction, Trapped in the Present Tense. In a lyrical and inventive blend of history, memoir, and visual essays, Brooks explores the mechanics and... Read more
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Quarantine Session #94: Leanne Brown + Hawa Hassan
By: Leanne Brown
Narrated by: Hawa Hassan
Length: 54 minutes
Leanne Brownâs wildly popular and NYT bestselling cookbook Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day showed us that kitchen skill and resourcefulnessânot budgetâare the keys to great food. Brown returned (virtually) to Greenlight for the launch of her new cookbook, Good Enough: A Cookbook: Embracing the Joys of Imperfection and Practicing Self-Care in... Read more
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Quarantine Session #93: Cynthia Dewi Oka + Jenny Zhang
By: Cynthia Dewi Oka
Narrated by: Jenny Zhang
Length: 57 minutes
For Greenlightâs first poetry event of 2022, we welcomed Indonesian American poet Cynthia Dewi Oka and acclaimed poet and fiction writer Jenny Zhang (Sour Heart) to share, discuss, and celebrate Okaâs third collection, Fire Is Not a Country. Okaâs poems track how the energies of migration, exploitation, patriarchal violation, and political... Read more
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