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SidedoorTo Sweat Like BeyoncéBeyoncé is one of the most well-known and appreciated Black women in music today, but to understand her work, we need to look at who came before her and what those women contributed to the story of Black women on stage. In this special guest episode, curator Krystal Klingenberg introduces a new season of Collected, a podcast from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, all about Black women in music. Guests:Daphne A. Brooks, PhD., is professor of African American Studies and Music at Yale University. Dr. Brooks most recent books is Liner Note...
2025-02-0518 min
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2024-10-2300 min
The Short Fuse PodcastThe Swans of HarlemThe Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and the Reclamation of Their Groundbreaking History By: Karen ValbyThe forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas, the first principals in the Dance Theatre of Harlem, who traveled the world as highly celebrated stars in their field and whose legacy was erased from history until now.At the height of the Civil Rights movement, Lydia Abarça was a Black prima ballerina with a major international dance company—the Dance Theatre of Harlem. She was the first Black ballerina on the cover o...
2024-07-0937 min
New Books in Popular CultureOn Michael Jackson: A Lecture by Margo JeffersonIn September 2006, Margo Jefferson spoke to the Institute about her book, On Michael Jackson (Vintage, 2007). Jefferson received the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for criticism when she was at the New York Times. Her 2015 book, Negroland: A Memoir, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. And in 2022, she published, Constructing a Nervous System, a memoir in fragments. She has taught at NYU, The New School, and Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where she is a professor of professional practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premi...
2024-06-2948 min
New Books in MusicOn Michael Jackson: A Lecture by Margo JeffersonIn September 2006, Margo Jefferson spoke to the Institute about her book, On Michael Jackson (Vintage, 2007). Jefferson received the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for criticism when she was at the New York Times. Her 2015 book, Negroland: A Memoir, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. And in 2022, she published, Constructing a Nervous System, a memoir in fragments. She has taught at NYU, The New School, and Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where she is a professor of professional practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premi...
2024-06-2948 min
New Books in African American StudiesOn Michael Jackson: A Lecture by Margo JeffersonIn September 2006, Margo Jefferson spoke to the Institute about her book, On Michael Jackson (Vintage, 2007). Jefferson received the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for criticism when she was at the New York Times. Her 2015 book, Negroland: A Memoir, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. And in 2022, she published, Constructing a Nervous System, a memoir in fragments. She has taught at NYU, The New School, and Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where she is a professor of professional practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premi...
2024-06-2948 min
The VaultOn Michael Jackson: A Lecture by Margo JeffersonIn September 2006, Margo Jefferson spoke to the Institute about her book, On Michael Jackson (Vintage, 2007). Jefferson received the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for criticism when she was at the New York Times. Her 2015 book, Negroland: A Memoir, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. And in 2022, she published, Constructing a Nervous System, a memoir in fragments. She has taught at NYU, The New School, and Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where she is a professor of professional practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-06-2948 min
The Indian EditEp. 92: Author and educator Nina Sharma on black and brown love and allyshipWondering where to start with learning more about black and brown solidarity? Or how to write about a difficult experience? Reading author and educator Nina Sharma’s wonderful debut “The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown” is a great first step. So grateful to Nina for her honest and elegant writing and for this amazing chat! Nina shares her sometimes rocky road to owning her writer identity, her struggle to write about her mental health challenges, and the profound connection she felt when she met her husband who is African-American and a fellow writer. BONU...
2024-06-031h 06
Living in the USABiden and the working class: Harold Meyerson; Dems and the Senate: John Nichols; Margo Jefferson's memoirRecent polls show Biden's level of support among non-college voters of all races is down to 39% – that's 9 points less than his level of support from those same voters in the 2020 election – Harold Meyerson comments.Next: Democrats in the Senate are going to lose the seat vacated by Joe Manchin in West Virginia – can they hold all the others in November? John Nichols has our analysis, starting with Maryland, where Democrat Angela Alsobrooks will face Republican “moderate” Larry Hogan, the popular anti-Trump former governor. Plus: The wonderful writer Margo Jefferson talks about “Constructing a Nervous System" – her memoir abo...
2024-05-2457 min
Book Vs Movie PodcastRENT (2005) Jonathan Larson, Anthony Rapp, Taye Diggs & Puccini's La BohemeBook Vs. Movie: RentThe 1896 Opera Vs. the 2005 Movie (Based on the 1996 Play)"Rent" is a modern adaptation of Giacomo Puccini's opera "La Bohème." It tells the story of a group of struggling artists living in New York City's East Village during the late 1980s and early 1990s, dealing with poverty, love, and the AIDS epidemic. The late Jonathan Larson wrote the book, music & lyrics for the show and tragically died a few months before its Broadway debut on January 26, 1996. The plot revolves around a diverse group of characters:Mark Co...
2024-04-021h 02
Telephone StoriesSecond Star to the RightFeaturing author and critic Margo Jefferson, we explore Michael Jackson's childhood and rise to stardom -- growing up in the limelight of a family band and dealing with his complicated and dysfunctional relatives.Originally published in 2019.
2023-11-0559 min
Library of America presents LOA LIVEThe Startling Theater of Adrienne KennedyWednesday, October 25—For more than sixty years, in such works as Funnyhouse of a Negro and Ohio State Murders, Adrienne Kennedy has bewitched audiences with plays that transform stages into dreamscapes, actors into ghosts, and personal history into myth. One of only five living writers in the Library of America series, Kennedy “never [takes] a straight path from one event to another if a more beautiful route is available,” says actor Natalie Portman.
Join Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Margo Jefferson, Obie-winning playwright and screenwriter Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, and Yale professor Marc Robinson, editor of the new Library of America...
2023-10-2658 min
The Seattle Public Library - Author Readings and Library EventsClifford Thompson and Charles Johnson discuss 'What It Is'ABOUT THE BOOK: In the tradition of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me comes Clifford Thompson's What It Is. Thompson was raised to believe in treating every person of every color as an individual, and he decided as a young man that America, despite its history of racial oppression, was his home as much as anyone else's. As a middle-aged, happily married father of biracial children, Thompson finds himself questioning his most deeply held convictions when the race-baiting Donald Trump ascends to the presidency--elected by whites, whom Thompson had refused to judge...
2023-09-151h 04
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2023-09-0100 min
Living in the USABiden's Debt Deal: Harold Meyerson; The Oklahoma City Bombing: Jeffrey Toobin; Margo Jefferson's MemoirBiden's debt limit deal has left progressives unhappy--Harold Meyerson says it's the best we could have expected under the circumstances.Also: The ideological roots of the January 6 insurrection go back decades before Trump entered politics — back to the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995. Jeffrey Toobin will explain. His new book is ‘Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism.’Also: a conversation with Margo Jefferson about her memoir, “Constructing a Nervous System.” It’s out now in paperback.
2023-06-0258 min
A Pair of BookendsThe Rathbones Folio Prize 2023 Special with Margo Jefferson, Michelle de Kretser & Victoria Adukwei BulleyWelcome Bookends to a very exciting bonus episode in collaboration with The Rathbones Folio Prize 2023, we were joined by all three of this year's winners of the prize: Margo Jefferson, Michelle de Kretser and Victoria Adukwei Bulley. It was truly an honour to chat to these three incredible women about their winning books and learning more about their process, their inspirations and their feelings about winning the prize. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!Buy Constructing A Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/constructing-a-nervous-system-a-memoir-margo-jefferson/6745611?ean=9781783785568...
2023-04-211h 19Library of America presents LOA LIVEWomen’s Liberation! Feminist Writings That Inspired a Revolution and Still CanMarch 18, 2021—Feminist writer-activists of the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s sparked a diverse, visionary, and revolutionary movement for freedom and social justice that fifty years later is as relevant and urgent as it’s ever been. Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore, editors of Library of America’s revelatory new Women’s Liberation! anthology, lead an inter-generational conversation about the living questions at the heart of the book: What is this tradition and what is its legacy for today? What unfulfilled possibilities need to be recovered, witnessed, and passed on in the time of #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter?
Featuring Women’s Liberat...
2023-04-1455 min
BookRisingShifting Geographies of the Self: Margo Jefferson and Victoria Adukwei BulleyWriter Margo Jefferson and poet Victoria Adukwei Bulley join BookRising host Bhakti Shringarpure to talk about their recent books which won the Rathbones Folio Prize 2023. The authors speak about crafting aesthetically innovative, genre-bending and political works. They also weigh in on particular challenges for Black women in the world of publishing and the importance of mentoring and camaraderie among writers.Margo Jefferson is a writer who worked as a theatre and book critic for Newsweek and the New York Times, and her writing has appeared in several publications including Vogue, New York Magazine and New Republic. She...
2023-04-0434 min
All About Books“Constructing a Nervous System” by Margo JeffersonCombining cultural examination and autobiography, Pulitzer-Prize winning author Margo Jefferson’s new book pursues many threads at once- music, beauty, celebrity. Hear a review of her new book, “Constructing a Nervous System”
2023-02-1509 min
Pot PsychologyThe Endies Awards 2022It's stupid shit's biggest night! Tracie and Rich discuss what they discussed in 2022.To see clips we discussed on this episode, like Kirstie Alley's bikini dance or Angela Lansbury masturbating in a tub, or to access bonus episodes visit Pot Psychology's Patreon.Speaking of dead people, The People Who Died in 2022 ornament—which will be revealed on January 1—is now available for pre-order.As always, you can find Pot Psych merch and smoking accessories at Pipe Dreams.And see all of our other Diamond Girls on our Instagram.And the...
2022-12-301h 01
Book DreamsEp. 127 - Constructing a Nervous System, with Margo JeffersonWhat are the raw materials of our lives? Who are the authors, the singers and songwriters, the actors and artists whose work resonates with each of us and makes us who we are? It’s a question that is brilliantly and masterfully explored by arts critic Margo Jefferson in her new memoir, Constructing a Nervous System, in which she weaves her personal history with those of the artists who are part of her “nervous system,” setting it all within a wider cultural context. In this spirited and wide-ranging conversation, Julie and Eve talk with Margo about deriving power from our he...
2022-11-1733 min
Seneca's 100 Women to HearMargo Jefferson: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Critic, on Ella FitzgeraldThe former New York Times critic, and author of the recent memoir Constructing a Nervous System, talks about the genius of the First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald, and how Fitzgerald helped shape Jefferson's own perspective.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2022-10-1323 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastMargo Jefferson & Colin Grant: Constructing a Nervous SystemMargo Jefferson talks to Colin Grant about her latest book, Constructing a Nervous System. It’s a memoir unlike any other, taking as its focus each ‘influence, love and passion’ which have gone to shape Jefferson as a person: her family, musicians, dancers, athletes and artists, and one which, in Maggie Nelson’s words, ‘takes vital risks, tosses away rungs of the ladder as it climbs’. Vivian Gornick describes it as ‘one of the most imaginative – and therefore moving – memoirs I have ever read’.Find our upcoming events, online and in-person, here: lrb.me/upcomingevents Hosted on Acast. See...
2022-07-271h 04
Talk Easy with Sam FragosoMargo Jefferson: We Must ‘Go On’Today, we sit with author and cultural critic Margo Jefferson. We begin with her new book, Constructing a Nervous System (6:54), an early Ella Fitzgerald memory (11:20), and the said (and unsaid) racial pedagogy of her childhood (16:24), defined by Condoleezza Rice (19:54), Bing Crosby (24:18), and a formative interaction at a high school party (27:49). On the back-half, we walk through Margo’s entry into criticism (34:27), her role in the emerging feminist movement (36:46), and what real allyship looks like in the continued fight for reproductive rights (40:12). To close, Margo discusses her approach in the classroom at Columbia (41:52), finding ‘temperamental kinship’ in Nina Simone...
2022-06-261h 11
WondermineSeason 2, Episode 4: Female TroublesQuick note: the audio on this episode is a bit spotty (thanks, Zoom!). Check out the transcript if it's too hard to listen!On this episode, Elizabeth and Larissa discuss "female troubles"--the things we don't talk about when we talk about having a uterus.Mentioned in this episode:Margo Jefferson, Deconstructing a Nervous SystemFrom Blood and Ash, Jennifer L. ArmentroutTurning Red (also check out the excellent bts piece, Embrace the Panda)Are...
2022-06-071h 05
Start the WeekFamily drama at Hay FestivalIn front of an audience at this year’s Hay Festival Helen Lewis talks to three prize winning authors about their work. Damon Galgut’s Booker-winning The Promise tells the story of a family and a country – South Africa – and the failed promises that destroy them both. The exciting promise of a super-connected world where memories are currency is set against the quest for privacy in Jennifer Egan’s new novel The Candy House. And Margo Jefferson examines every passion, memory and influence – from family to jazz to art – in her new memoir, Constructing a Nervous System. Producer...
2022-05-3042 min
Fully Booked by Kirkus ReviewsMargo JeffersonMargo Jefferson joins us to discuss Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir (Pantheon, April 12), “a dynamic, unflinchingly candid examination of the impacts of race and class on culture and the author’s own life” (starred review). Then our editors join with their reading recommendations for the week.
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2022-05-1039 min
Free Library PodcastMargo Jefferson | Constructing A Nervous System: A MemoirIn conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition
''A national treasure'' (Vanity Fair), Margo Jefferson won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir Negroland, an examination of her upbringing and education amongst a small segment of privileged Black society in the United States. She is also the author of On Michael Jackson, an analysis of Jackson's cultural legacy as a pop star and celebrity. A former longtime theater and book reviewer for Newsweek and The New York Times, she won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for her cultural criticism. Her essays and reviews have been published in...
2022-05-0452 min
Living in the USADemocracy Summer: Harold Meyerson; Ukrainian Refugees: David Nasaw; Margo Jefferson's new memoirThe Democrats’ chances in the midterms depend on turnout, on door-to-door, face-to-face organizing—and “Democracy Summer” is their plan to join with allies in organizing that kind of effort in the swing states. Harold Meyerson explains.
Also: the disgraceful policy of America toward refugees from Ukraine – historian David Nasaw comments.
And the wonderful writer Margo Jefferson talks about her new memoir about growing up in a middle-class Black family in Chicago – it’s called “Constructing a Nervous System.”
2022-05-0453 min
ThresholdsEndnotes: Ross Gay, adrienne maree brown, and a special songIt’s the end of our ‘The World Around Us' capsule of episodes!MENTIONED:Jordan calls up Ross Gay to talk about his garden and something called a goumian outtake from our convo with adrienne maree brown, on the power of expressing the thing that needed to be expressedupdates about cool Thresholds alums like Alex Kleeman, Melissa Febos, Margo Jefferson, and Susan Orleansome book recommendations from Typo's dad, Ed Yongour audio engineer/composer Lora-Faye Åshuvud whips up a sonic treat just for youWe'll be back with our next capsule starting 5/18!For...
2022-05-0422 min
Fuel Your Mind With An Uplifting Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.This Woman's Work: Essays on Music by Sinead Gleeson, Kim GordonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546691to listen full audiobooks.
Title: This Woman's Work: Essays on Music
Author: Sinead Gleeson, Kim Gordon
Narrator: Sinead Gleeson, Nikki Massoud, Jeanette Illidge, Cindy Kay
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Release date: May 3, 2022
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
Edited by iconic musician Kim Gordon and esteemed writer Sinéad Gleeson, this powerful collection of award-winning female creators shares their writing about the female artists that matter most to them. This book is for and about the women who kicked in doors, as pioneers of their craft or making politics central to their sound: t...
2022-05-038h 46Access Essential Full Audiobooks in History, WorldThis Woman's Work: Essays on Music by Kim Gordon, Sinead GleesonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546691to listen full audiobooks.
Title: This Woman's Work: Essays on Music
Author: Kim Gordon, Sinead Gleeson
Narrator: Sinead Gleeson, Nikki Massoud, Jeanette Illidge, Cindy Kay
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Release date: May 3, 2022
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
Edited by iconic musician Kim Gordon and esteemed writer Sinéad Gleeson, this powerful collection of award-winning female creators shares their writing about the female artists that matter most to them. This book is for and about the women who kicked in doors, as pioneers of their craft or making politics central to their sound: those w...
2022-05-038h 46Access Must-Have Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceThis Woman's Work: Essays on Music by Sinead Gleeson, Kim GordonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546691to listen full audiobooks.
Title: This Woman's Work: Essays on Music
Author: Sinead Gleeson, Kim Gordon
Narrator: Sinead Gleeson, Nikki Massoud, Jeanette Illidge, Cindy Kay
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Release date: May 3, 2022
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
Edited by iconic musician Kim Gordon and esteemed writer Sinéad Gleeson, this powerful collection of award-winning female creators shares their writing about the female artists that matter most to them. This book is for and about the women who kicked in doors, as pioneers of their craft or making politics central to their sound: t...
2022-05-038h 46
LA Review of BooksMargo Jefferson's "Constructing a Nervous System"Writer and critic Margo Jefferson joins Kate Wolf to speak about her latest book, Constructing A Nervous System: A Memoir. A formally inventive and exacting assemblage of personal history and deliberation that delves into Jefferson’s familial legacy, her battles with depression, and the oppressive construct of the model minority, the book is also a cultural reflection. It touches on such subjects as Ella Fitzgerald, Bud Powell, Ike Turner, and Willa Cather, especially as they manifest in the author’s conception of herself. With a kaleidoscopic sense of voice, Jefferson enacts here the constant toggle of the self, from the hars...
2022-04-2947 min
NPR's Book of the DayTwo memoirs that celebrate the influence of Black female artistsWho made you the person you are? Today, we bring you two interviews from Black female authors who explore the impact that musicians, writers, and actresses had on their own artistic careers. First, Margo Jefferson, Pulitzer prize culture critic and celebrated memoirist, speaks to Ari Shapiro on All Things Considered about mixing memoir and criticism in her book to show both power and vulnerability. Then, Danyel Smith talks to Juana Summers on It's Been a Minute, about the history of Black women in music and how she hopes to give them the respect they deserve.Learn more about...
2022-04-2921 min
"What's Good?" W/ Charlie TaylorEp.174 - Elon Twitter, BeReal & Margo JeffersonIn a Week Where:Emmanuel Macron beats Marine Le Pen again to gain a 2nd term as President of France. Twitter accepts Elon Musk's $44 Billion bid to by the social network outright.World's oldest person Kane Tanaka dies in Japan at 119.DJ Tim Westwood is accused of of sexual misconduct by multiple women.The Tories investigate a senior MP after claims he was caught watching porn in Parliament.In the 1st of two Tech segments: (10:43) Elon Musk cops Twitter. And as you can imagine, it's a big deal. You may not think it is, but when the r...
2022-04-281h 08
The Shakespeare and Company InterviewOn imagining what hasn’t, can’t and won’t imagine you, with Margo JeffersonDespite being a lauded writer and critic, despite being the winner of a Pulitzer Prize even, Margo Jefferson innovates and takes risks like a writer with nothing to lose. Her new book, Constructing a Nervous System is both the history of a mind’s formation and the deconstruction of a culture and its tropes, as well as what feels like a form of self-analysis taking place on the page, beneath the readers eyes, in real time. It’s a book about race and gender, but also of family and culture, where all four intersect, and how one person used the...
2022-04-2851 minThe Shakespeare and Company InterviewOn imagining what hasn’t, can’t and won’t imagine you, with Margo JeffersonDespite being a lauded writer and critic, despite being the winner of a Pulitzer Prize even, Margo Jefferson innovates and takes risks like a writer with nothing to lose. Her new book, Constructing a Nervous System is both the history of a mind’s formation and the deconstruction of a culture and its tropes, as well as what feels like a form of self-analysis taking place on the page, beneath the readers eyes, in real time. It’s a book about race and gender, but also of family and culture, where all four intersect, and how one person used the...
2022-04-2851 min
Poured OverMargo Jefferson on CONSTRUCTING A NERVOUS SYSTEM"I didn't want that more traditional kind of arc of childhood to a certain stance of wisdom or resignation or triumph. I wanted—partly because I felt with Negroland, and very much with this book—that ability to change persona, change my position, to acknowledge that one was performing at times, and that one played many, many roles … I wanted to be able to take in all of that, and a traditional memoir structure wasn't going to allow it." Margo Jefferson is one of our most astute and elegant cultural critics, full stop. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize for critici...
2022-04-2344 min
Start Making Sense ClipsMargo Jefferson: "Constructing a Nervous System"Margo Jefferson talks about her new memoir, “Constructing a Nervous System.” Her earlier memoir, “Negroland,” won the National Book Critics Circle Award -- and before that she won a Pulitzer Prize for criticism for her work as book and arts critic for the New York Times. She also has written for The Nation.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
2022-04-2118 min
The Nation PodcastsJane McAlevey on Amazon Workers' Next Big Battles and Margo Jefferson on "Constructing a Nervous System"The Amazon workers on Staten Island have won a historic victory—but now they must prepare to strike, and to win support for their strike from the community power structure. The Nation’s Strikes Correspondent, Jane McAlevey explains why, and howAlso on this week's show, we have a conversation with Margo Jefferson about her new memoir, “Constructing a Nervous System.” Her earlier memoir, “Negroland,” won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and before that she won a Pulitzer Prize for criticism for her work as book and arts critic for the New York Times. She’s also written f...
2022-04-2144 min
Absorb A High-Impact Full Audiobook On Your Commute.Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo JeffersonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547647to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Author: Margo Jefferson
Narrator: Karen Murray
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Release date: April 12, 2022
Genres: Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From 'one of our most nuanced thinkers on the intersections of race, class, and feminism' (Cathy Park Hong, New York Times bestselling author of Minor Feelings) comes a memoir 'as electric as the title suggests' (Maggie Nelson, author of On Freedom). A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Oprah Daily, Th...
2022-04-125h 01Find Best-Selling Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsConstructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo JeffersonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547647to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Author: Margo Jefferson
Narrator: Karen Murray
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Release date: April 12, 2022
Genres: Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From 'one of our most nuanced thinkers on the intersections of race, class, and feminism' (Cathy Park Hong, New York Times bestselling author of Minor Feelings) comes a memoir 'as electric as the title suggests' (Maggie Nelson, author of On Freedom). A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Oprah Daily, Th...
2022-04-125h 01
Best-Selling Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsConstructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo JeffersonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547647 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir Author: Margo Jefferson Narrator: Karen Murray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: April 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From 'one of our most nuanced thinkers on the intersections of race, class, and feminism' (Cathy Park Hong, New York Times bestselling author of Minor Feelings) comes a memoir 'as electric as the title suggests' (Maggie Nelson, author of On Freedom). A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Oprah Da...
2022-04-1210 min
Bright Lights BookclubNegroland - Margo JeffersonIl Bright Lights Bookclub discute di Negroland di Margo Jefferson insieme a Sara Antonelli, traduttrice del memoir e docente di Letteratura Anglo-Americana presso l’Università di Roma Tre
2022-03-311h 21
We Love That!79. We Love Being Expansive & LimitlessWith Oscars on the brain and some s'wintry weather overhead, that can only mean one thing: it's Black History Month! After we get swept up in the mess of the Academy Awards and white people accepting apologies, we dive into some texts by Black authors to reflect on history, memory, and how we exist after death. If you've been grappling with the messiness of the diaspora or other people's versions of ourselves or the elasticity of history right now... well first, take a deep breath. But then listen to this episode!
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2022-02-231h 07
SimoncastIllinois Authors: Growing up in segregated Chicago - Episode 22Simoncast guest author, Margo Jefferson speaks with John Shaw about her memoir.(Photo by Larry D. Moore. / Paul Simon Public Policy Institute)Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning arts critic Margo Jefferson talks with the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute about her memoir "Negroland," which recounts what it was like to come of age in Black Chicago's upper crust at a time when the city -- and the country -- was racially segregated. This conversation is part of our "Illinois Authors" series, in which we meet the writers that bring the Prairie State to life.Hosted by John Shaw...
2022-02-161h 05
The LRB PodcastMyself with Others: Margo JeffersonIn the first of three guest episodes from a new podcast, Myself with Others, hosted by Adam Shatz, writer and critic Margo Jefferson talks about her childhood in Chicago, her early experiences in radical theatre at Brandeis University, her relationship to the feminist and Black Power movements, her emergence as a writer, and her battles with melancholia. Produced by Richard Sears.Subscribe to Myself with Others wherever you're listening to this podcast.Find out more about the series here: https://www.myselfwithothers.com/Subscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: https://mylrb.c...
2022-01-041h 12
NYIH ConversationsMargo Jefferson talks with Adam Shatz for Myself With OthersMyself With Others, the podcast created by Adam Shatz and Richard Sears, contains conversations with writers, musicians, and critics. In this episode, the NYIH is pleased to run Adam's discussion with the critic Margo Jefferson, an Institute fellow, and Pulitzer Prize winner.
2021-11-101h 13
Myself With OthersAdam Shatz with Margo JeffersonMargo Jefferson won the Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 1995, and the 2015 National Book Critics Circle award in autobiography for her memoir, Negroland, about growing up in an upper-middle class black family in Chicago. During her years at the New York Times, she wrote brilliantly about literature, music, dance, and the way racial politics seeps into culture: what the late Stanley Crouch called the “all-American skin game.” In our conversation, Margo spoke about her childhood in Chicago, her early experiences in radical theater at Brandeis University, her relationship to the feminist and Black Power movements, her emergence as a writer, and...
2021-11-091h 13
Dev Game ClubDGC Ep 267: Bonus Interview with Sebastian DekenWelcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we add a bonus interview to our series on Final Fantasy VI. We are joined by Sebastian Deken, whose new book explores especially the music in the game. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Podcast breakdown: 0:51 Interview 1:05:21 Break 1:06:03 Outro Issues covered: not being able to talk about video game music, researching live performances of video game music, pitching Boss Fight Books, playing a friend's copy of Final Fantasy, racking up Blockbuster fines from...
2021-07-141h 12
NonFicPodNadia Owusu - AftershocksThis episode's transcript can be found hereNadia Owusu is a woman whose life story spans continents. Losses and uprootings marked her early life, leaving her with questions about her worth, her identity, even her sanity. A woman with an emotional seismometer, always attuned to the possibility of loss, she witnessed civil war, terrorism, and the ravages of colonialism and anti-blackness. She was also abandoned by her birth mother, lost her father to cancer, and fought with her widowed stepmother for the truth of her father’s memory.Described by Margo Jefferson as “rigo...
2021-06-1433 minThresholdsMargo JeffersonThe winner of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Margo Jefferson previously served as book and arts critic for Newsweek and the New York Times. Her writing has appeared in, among other publications, Vogue, New York Magazine, The Nation, and Guernica. Her memoir, Negroland, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. She is also the author of On Michael Jackson and is a professor of writing at Columbia University School of the Arts.Thank you to The House of Chanel for sponsoring this episode. Find out more at inside.Chanel.com.Find more from Thresholds at...
2021-01-2746 min
Sinica PodcastOnline vitriol and identity with The New Yorker’s Jiayang FanJiayang Fan, friend of Sinica and staff writer for The New Yorker, joins Kaiser and Jeremy for a discussion on her recently published long-form piece, How my mother and I became Chinese propaganda. The three talk about the experiences that informed her writing, her mother, and how this piece has been received in the United States and abroad.7:27: Drawing the ire from both sides of the discussion on China28:48: The remembered sense of humiliation in Chinese history33:49: Losing face, family, and Chinese culture46:40: Sexism within online commentaryRecommendations:
2020-09-2458 min
LongformEpisode 405: Jason ParhamJason Parham is a senior writer at Wired.“I think of myself some days as a critic. Some days I think of myself as a journalist. But I essentially mostly think of myself as an essayist, somebody who is trying to bridge those two traditions. My approach to writing now is kind of simple…I’m always writing about things I like and want to hear about.”
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00:45 "TikTok and the Evolution of Digital Blackface" (Wired • Aug 2020)
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18:30 "The Reality of Dating White Women When You're Black" ...
2020-08-1256 min
Books Are My PeopleBook Are My People - Episode #26- Special Guest JoeAnn HartOn this episode I get a visit from author JoeAnn Hart and we discuss her memoir Stamford '76: A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race and Feminism in the 1970's as well as Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld and The End of October by Lawrence Wright and other great books!You can purchase all the books I discuss on this episode by clicking this link! Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS, iTunes, or SpotifyJoeAnn Hart's Books:Stamford '76: A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race and Feminism in t...
2020-06-2929 min
House of SpeakEasySeriously Entertaining - It's Not YouSpeakEasy’s fifth episode highlights stories united by the theme “It’s Not You”: Pulitzer Prize–winning author and critic Margo Jefferson, memoirist George Hodgman, and novelist David Ebershoff share their journeys of negotiating issues of identity, memory, and what it means to be you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-12-0440 min
PEN AmericaWorks of Justice 010 - Break Out 2019 PEN America Prison Writing Awards Part 1Celebrating the release of the 2019 PEN America Prison Writing Awards Anthology, PEN America and The Poetry Project present an evening of exceptional work from currently incarcerated writers, staged by a series of dynamic authors, actors and activists.
Part 1 of 2
Cortney Lamar Charleston reads Self Portrait As State Property by P.M. Dunne (00:20)
Margo Jefferson reads “Thorazine, Haldol & Coffee: My Life in a Prison Mental Health Ward,” by Michael Kaiser (03:58)
T Kira Madden reads “My Co-Worker,” Edward Ji (14:50)
Shaun Leonardo reads "Geode" by David A. Pickett (15:33)
Rachel Eliza Griffiths reads “Time Reversal Invariance" by David Pickett (26:55)
Kevin Boone, Tamika Graham, Milton Jones, Pau...
2019-10-0150 min
Herwaarns PodcastHerwaarns Podcast 03 – De Schande van de AuteurMerel en Wessel maken een podcast waarin we samen met gasten een
maatschappelijk relevant thema bespreken aan de hand van een cultureel object
naar keuze. Via deze tekst, film, muziek of ander element van cultuur proberen
we het thema beter te begrijpen vanuit ieders eigen achtergrond en expertise.
Aflevering drie gaat over "de schande van de auteur," een variant op het concept van de dood van de auteur. Naar aanleiding van het net verschenen boek Door de Schaduwen Bestormd - Reflecties op de controverse rond de oorlogsjaren van Lucebert komt Yi Fong Au praten over de invloed van de vermeende...
2019-08-1855 min
What Editors WantGranta - Anne MeadowsLovers of literary fiction will know Granta Magazine and Granta itself, the publishers of authors likes Robert MacFarlane, Eleanor Catton, Ben Lerner, AM Holmes, Patrick deWitt and Han Kang.Anne Meadows is the Senior Commissioning Editor at Granta. We spoke about her incredible list of authors including Sandra Newman (The Heavens), Gwendoline Riley (First Love), Margo Jefferson (On Michael Jackson) and Sayaka Murata (Convenience Store Woman).Anne tells us about the disappointment on missing out on a book she'd have loved to work on, importing novels from countries like American and Japan into...
2019-07-3000 min
After Work DrinksIs Ambition Overrated?Isabelle is back from Africa where she had an obnoxiously luxe few weeks (and met a racist named Lindy). We talk Elizabeth Holmes - the scandal everyone can't seem to get enough of. And in the wake of another ambition-gone-wrong tale, we question: Is ambition overrated? And are we working ourselves to death out of fear not doing so is going to let the feminist side down? Plus, a deep-dive on the Madeline McCann documentary. Read:On Michael Jackson by Margo Jefferson https://www.booktopia.com.au/on-michael-jackson-margo-jefferson/prod9781783784202.htmlAdele by Leila Slimanihttps://www.booktopia.com.au/adele-leila-slimani/prod9780571331956.htmlEverything...
2019-03-281h 05
a++[Still Processing ] M.J.HBO’s “Leaving Neverland” — a two-part documentary that focuses on the stories of two men, James Safechuck and Wade Robson, who allege that Michael Jackson sexually abused them as children — prompts us to wrestle with our love for and discomfort with the pop star. We examine how Jackson seemed to have been culturally exonerated, and we ask what to do with a man whose artistic reach is so profound that “canceling” him — an imperfect way of dealing with problematic artists to begin with — might not even be possible.Discussed this week:“How to Support a Friend or Loved One Who Has...
2019-03-0700 min
Not Fade Away PodcastThe Not Fade Away Podcast "Altamont" (Concerts Gone Wrong)Not Fade Away Episode 8: “Altamont” Hey there! Hi There! Ho there! The Not Fade Away podcast is back and I am so excited to talk about today’s subject--the Altamont concert that took place on December 6, 1969. It was supposed to be a showcase by the Rolling Stones to demonstrate their ability to draw an even bigger crowd than the Woodstock festival which took place in August of that year. That concert was billed as “three days of peace & music” and managed to rise above their circumstances of overcrowding, rain and brown acid to become a legendary event that 50 years later serves as an...
2019-03-051h 37
DipsausBonus - Nederlandse vertaling van Frantz Fanon's 'Peau noire, masques blancs' is problematisch!Beste Dipsauzers, we sluiten het jaar 2018 af met een bonusaflevering. In deze aflevering gaan we het hebben over de problematische vertaling van Frantz Fanon's 'Peau noire, masques blancs', het witwassen van radicale, zwarte denkers en algeheel gebrek aan bewustwording binnen de Nederlandse uitgeefwereld als het gaat om belangrijke zwarte, radicale schrijvers en denkers. Te gast zijn Grâce Ndjako, Master of Science in Political Science en Master of Arts in Philosophy, ze is auteur, lecturer, filosoof en verbonden aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. En met Amandla Awethu, schrijver, studeert Literary and Cultural Analysis en lid van University o...
2018-12-1858 min
Book Riot - The Podcast#289: 2018 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 2Jeff and Rebecca wrap up their 2018 holiday recommendations.
This episode is sponsored by:
Fight Like a Girl by Clementine Ford
Wizard Pins
Penguin Random House Audio's Holiday Guide
Books recommended in this episode:
The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
Pere Giorot by Balzac
Incarceration Nations by Baz Dreisinger
The Emperor of All Maladies or The Gene
Naked at Lunch
The Noble Hustle by Colson Whitehead
The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson
Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
Fit by Rebekah Weatherspoon
The Nest by Cynthia d'Aprix Swe...
2018-12-031h 00
The Archive ProjectMargo JeffersonCultural critic Margo Jefferson explores the meaning of “We” in “We the People” as part of the University of Oregon Humanities Center’s 2017–18 Kritikos Lecture Series.
2018-08-2350 min
The Book ClubMargo Jefferson on Michael JacksonThis week’s episode sees Sam Leith joined by Margo Jefferson, author of 'On Michael Jackson' and the memoir Negroland, to moonwalk back to the glory days of Michael Jackson. Jackson was one of the central figures in pop culture, but what was it that made him so captivating? And can his artistic legacy ever be disentangled from the gruesome murk of the last years?Become a Spectator subscriber today to access this podcast without adverts. Go to spectator.co.uk/adfree to find out more.For more Spectator podcasts, go to spectator.co.uk...
2018-07-1227 min
UO TodayUO Today With Margo JeffersonPulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic and writer Margo Jefferson discusses her book On Michael Jackson and her memoir Negroland. Her memoir recounts her memories of coming of age among the midcentury Negro elite in Chicago. Jefferson talks about how ideals of black respectability impacted the ways young black women thought about and treated their bodies and appearance. Jefferson gave lectures titled "From 'I' to 'We': The Role of the Citizen-Critic" at the University of Oregon in Eugene and Portland on May 30th and 31st, 2018 as the Oregon Humanities Center's 2017-18 Kritikos Lecturer in the Humanities.
2018-06-0728 min
UO TodayMargo JeffersonMay 30, 2018. Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic and writer Margo Jefferson gives the 2017-18 Kritikos Lecture in the Humanities, part of the "We the People" series. Jefferson is the author of Negroland: A Memoir.
2018-06-041h 06
The Poet and The PoemMargo JeffersonThe stress and pressures of being black upper class is chronicled in this national Marfield Prize Book for writing in the Arts. Margo Jefferson discusses her book Negroland.
2018-05-0329 min
The Greenlight Bookstore PodcastEpisode 29: Amy Siskind + Nomiki Konst (April 30, 2018)Writer Zinzi Clemmons speaks with author and cultural critic Margo Jefferson about her debut novel, What We Lose. They talk about the experience of being biracial, struggling with terminal disease, black womanhood and motherhood, and how fiction can be influenced by creative essay writing.
2018-04-191h 03
Skylight Books Podcast SeriesZINZI CLEMMONS READS FROM HER DEBUT NOVEL WHAT WE LOSE
From an author of rare, haunting power, a stunning novel about a young African-American woman coming of age--a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, family, and country.
Raised in Pennsylvania, Thandi views the world of her mother's childhood in Johannesburg as both impossibly distant and ever present. She is an outsider wherever she goes, caught between being black and white, American and not. She tries to connect these dislocated pieces of her life, and as her mother succumbs to cancer, Thandi searches for an anchor--someone, or something, to love. In arresting and unsettling prose, we watch Thandi's li...
2018-03-2444 min
Basic Latina PodcastEpisode 8: Money, Power, RespectThis week I sat down with Kimberly Lyons a Senior Vice President at a Municipal Finance Risk Management Firm. This bad and boujee bronx native and I chatted about everything from managing your finances to social media. I definitely learned a thing or two after my conversation with Kim. I’m sure you will too.
Book Recommendations: Total Money Makeover - Dave Ramsey The Year of Yes - Shonda Rhimes We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True - Gabrielle Union What Happened - Hillary Clinton Negroland: A Memoir - Margo Je...
2018-03-0257 min
Book Riot - The Podcast#237: 2017 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 1Jeff and Rebecca kick off this year's holiday recommendation extravaganza... This episode is sponsored by: Men & Dogs Penguin Random House Audio Books recommended in this episode: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown What If by Randall Munroe Schott's Original Miscellany by Ben Schott Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat and Wendy McNaughton The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern History of the World in Six Cups by Tom Standige Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Zero to Well-Read in 100 Books The Fate of the West by Bill Emmott, N...
2017-11-271h 12
GrantaMargo Jefferson reads Kathleen Collins: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 88In this episode of the Granta podcast, Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland, reads Kathleen Collins’s short story, ‘The Uncle’, taken from the collection Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Kathleen Collins was a pioneer African-American playwright, film-maker, civil rights activist and educator. You can read more work by Kathleen Collins on our website: granta.com/whatever-happened-to-interracial-love/
2017-07-1909 minGrantaMargo Jefferson reads Kathleen Collins: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 88In this episode of the Granta podcast, Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland, reads Kathleen Collins’s short story, ‘The Uncle’, taken from the collection Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Kathleen Collins was a pioneer African-American playwright, film-maker, civil rights activist and educator. You can read more work by Kathleen Collins on our website: granta.com/whatever-happened-to-interracial-love/
2017-07-1909 min
PEN America2017 05 04 PWV Legacies Militancy SisterhoodWriters Honor Moore, Erin Carmon, and Margo Jefferson discuss the ongoing legacy of second-wave feminism with writer, critic, and Jezebel founder Anna Holmes.
2017-05-051h 26
The EP: 13 Songs That Capture Our MomentTrack 10: Giving an Old Role a New MeaningMargo Jefferson on Cécile McLorin Salvant’s “The Trolley Song.”
2017-02-2700 min
Get BookedPeople Doing Peopley ThingsAmanda and Jenn discuss place-based narratives, women breaking barriers, and books set in Vancouver in this week’s episode of Get Booked.This episode is sponsored by Carina Press, publisher of Rough and Tumble by Rhenna Morgan.Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via iTunes here.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.Books Discu...
2017-02-2246 min
The Organist's Verbal VirtuososBeginning to process the electionIn the NY Times Magazine, Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham are both weekly practitioners of the art of criticism, and their podcast, “Still Processing,” translates their intelligence (which is sharpened on the one side by outrage and deep humor on the other) into pod form. This episode, featuring the brilliant Margo Jefferson (a modern artist-critic par excellence), reflects their range, as they struggle not only to feel all the feels, but to think all the thoughts, too.
2017-02-1500 min
PEN AmericaTown Hall: A Tribute to Arthur Miller, 10/30/1995A tribute to Arthur Miller on his 80th birthday. Anne Hollander opens the event by reading six letters from Miller's friends who could not make it to the event, including Vaclav Havel, Jane Alexander, Harold Pinter, Nadine Gordimer, and John Tillinger. Carlos Fuentes and Edward Albee pay tribute to Miller. Dianne Wiest and Sam Waterston read a scene from act four of "The Crucible". Margo Jefferson has a conversation with Miller about the writing and the first production of "The Crucible." John Guare talks about Miller's legacy for the American theater and shares his memory of watching "Death of a...
2017-01-161h 52
PEN AmericaPanel: Lost Women Writers: Women Far From Home, 11/29/1989Second in a series organized by the Women's Committee on lost women writers. The American writers Phyllis Raphael, Glenda Adams, Naomi Replansky, and Margo Jefferson read stories of displacement and disruption, international in scope, by Ivy Litvinov, Eve Langley, Helen Adam, and Bessie Head.
2017-01-041h 36
PEN AmericaThirty Years of Feminism: Literature and the Movement. Opening the Golden NotebookE. M. Broner, Vivian Gornick, Mary Gordon, Elizabeth Janeway, and Margo Jefferson discuss and analyze the continuing influence of Doris Lessing's novel, "The Golden Notebook."
2017-01-041h 53
Library TalksHenry Louis Gates Jr. and Margo Jefferson on Understanding Uncle Tom's CabinFor this week's episode, we're bringing you a conversation between two public intellectuals who have contributed immensely to our understanding of history, literature, cultural criticism, and politics, Macarthur Fellow Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Pulitzer Prize winner Margo Jefferson. In 2006, Gates and Jefferson sat down at the Library for a special event on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin co-presented with The Studio Museum in Harlem.
2016-11-081h 18
Start Making Sense ClipsOliver Stone: Edward Snowden Has Done Something ‘Quite Amazing’The film 'Snowden,' which opens this weekend, was turned down by all of the big Hollywood studios. Director Oliver Stone explains what it took to make his film about the NSA whistleblower—and why Snowden deserves a presidential pardon. Plus: Nation Sports Editor Dave Zirin says Colin Kaepernick’s protest against police violence is changing the NFL, which has been a bastion of support for our permanent state of war. And Margo Jefferson talks about what she calls 'Negroland'—the world of the black elite in the fifties, the world in which she grew up. She won the Pulitzer Prize...
2016-09-1445 min
The Nation PodcastsOliver Stone: Edward Snowden Has Done Something ‘Quite Amazing’The film 'Snowden,' which opens this weekend, was turned down by all of the big Hollywood studios. Director Oliver Stone explains what it took to make his film about the NSA whistleblower—and why Snowden deserves a presidential pardon. Plus: Nation Sports Editor Dave Zirin says Colin Kaepernick’s protest against police violence is changing the NFL, which has been a bastion of support for our permanent state of war. And Margo Jefferson talks about what she calls 'Negroland'—the world of the black elite in the fifties, the world in which she grew up. She won the Pulitzer Prize...
2016-09-1445 min
Get BookedToo Short To Be DepressingAmanda and Jenn recommend memoirs, very short books, adventure stories, and more on this week’s Get Booked.This episode is sponsored by Furious Rush by S. C. Stephens and Reco.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.Books DiscussedNegroland by Margo JeffersonReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiTake Th...
2016-08-251h 05
LongformEpisode 200: Jack HittJack Hitt contributes to Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, and This American Life.
“I’ve always lived more or less unemployed in these markets, and happily so. I think being unemployed keeps you a little more sharp in terms of looking for stories. It never gets any easier. That motivation and that desperation, whatever you want to call that, is still very much behind many of the conversations I have all day long trying to find those threads, those strings, that are going to pull together and turn into something.”
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2016-07-0659 min
JourneyWithJesus.net PodcastJwJ: Sunday June 26, 2016Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Dan Clendenin. Essay by Dan Clendenin: *Walking the Way of St. Francis* for Sunday, 26 June 2016; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Negroland; A Memoir* by Margo Jefferson (2015); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Inspired to Ride* (2015); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Address to the Lord (9)* by John Berryman.
2016-06-1920 min
WSJ SpeakeasyPulitzer Winner Margo Jefferson Talks 'Negroland'Pulitzer Prize winning critic Margo Jefferson joins Christopher John Farley for an in-depth discussion about race, representation, and her new memoir "Negroland," for which she received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2016-04-1324 min
All the Books!Episode #33: Best Fiction of 2015, Dec. 22, 2015This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of their favorite nonfiction books of 2015, including Between the World and Me, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, and Rain.This episode was sponsored by the DK Holiday Gift Generator and FabFitFun.Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For a complete list of...
2015-12-2239 min