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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 season—though we remain far from the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re out of quarantine! One of our first successes in this new age of author events was the standing-room-only launch for Elaine Hsieh Chou’s acclaimed debut, Disorientation—an 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 humanity—climate change, anti-Black racism, familial and erotic love, ecstasy and loss—in his second collection of poems, Best Barbarian. Roaming across the literary and social landscape, visiting with Beowulf’s 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 Songsiridej’s 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 boundaries—her 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 “Quarantine Season” of podcasts as we navigate our way back to in-person author events at Greenlight Bookstore! For our virtual season’s swan song, we reprise award-winning poet Yanyi’s 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 “manifoldly clever, brilliant... satire with sharper teeth” (The NYT Book Review). Inspired by the unexpected fall by coup in November 2017 of Robert G. Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s 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/Land—a 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 Center’s 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 Manguso—award-winning author and one of the most acclaimed and genre-defying prose stylists working today—joined 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, we’re 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 James’s Dark Star trilogy, his “African Game of Thrones”. 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 Resort—which 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 Penis—a “memoir” like nothing you’ve 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 partnership—just 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 Evaristo’s 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 Colette’s 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 Brown’s wildly popular and NYT bestselling cookbook Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day showed us that kitchen skill and resourcefulness—not budget—are 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 Greenlight’s 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 Oka’s third collection, Fire Is Not a Country. Oka’s poems track how the energies of migration, exploitation, patriarchal violation, and political... Read more

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