On this episode, Antonio Michael Downing, author and host of CBC’s Next Chapter, talks about his early reading life with his grandmother in Trinidad, how his work affects his reading life, and the types of authors that are speaking to him now. We talk about his two books, Saga Boy, a memoir, and Black Cherokee, his first novel.
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
Endling by Maria Reva
Isola by Allegra Goodman
Books Highlighted by Antonio Michael:
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Salt by Earl Lovelace
Dubliners by James Joyce
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Deep Secrets by Niobe Way
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
KJV Bible
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Book of Lives by Margaret Atwood
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ulysses by James Joyce
