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Bad On PaperBest Books of 2025It's time for us to share our favorite books of 2025! Get your notebooks ready because WE! HAVE! RECS! 📚 Becca's Fave Books The Force of Such Beauty by Barbara Bourland Heart the Lover by Lily King One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley Loved One by Aisha Muharrar Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett The Correspondent by Virginia Evans...
2025-12-171h 10
Politics and Prose PresentsNicholas Boggs — Baldwin: A Love Story - Mecca Jamilah Sullivan“Compulsively interesting and beautifully written—there is something to treasure on every page. I absolutely loved it.” —Zadie SmithBaldwin: A Love Story tells the overlapping stories of Baldwin's most sustaining intimate and artistic relationships: with his mentor, the Black American painter Beauford Delaney; with his lover and muse, the Swiss painter Lucien Happersberger; and with his collaborators, the famed Turkish actor Engin Cezzar and the iconoclastic French artist Yoran Cazac.With Nicholas Boggs's rich and subtle narration of Baldwin's public and personal stories and his lucid interpretation of Baldwin's work, this biography shows for the first...
2025-09-1151 minBad On PaperSeptember 2025 Three ThingsWhat do we want? Things! When do we want them? Now! It's time to talk about big pop culture moments, focus tools, and what we're excited about for fall. Olivia's Things Taylor Swift getting engaged What's on our Q4 Radar Our Fall TBR (Olivia's are The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Finding Grace by Loretta Rothschild, What a Time to Be Alive by Jade Chang, Becca's are The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy, Boom Town by Nic Stone, Bread of Angels by Patti Smith, Brimstone by Callie Hart)
2025-09-101h 21
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2025-08-2600 min
Library TalksRaquel Willis with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan: The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation In this episode of Library Talks, writer, activist, and speaker Raquel Willis joins Library Talks to discuss her memoir The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation. She's joined by fellow writer Mecca Jamilah Sullivan. In The Risk It Takes to Bloom, Raquel Willis recounts with passion and candor her experiences straddling the Obama and Trump eras, the possibility of transformation after the tragedy, and how complex moments can push us all to take necessary risks and bloom toward collective liberation. This recording was part of the Schomburg Centennial Festival.
2025-08-2054 min
The Reading LoungeBig GirlWelcome into The Reading Lounge. Sarah and Cynthia discuss Big Girl by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan. Big Girl is a coming of age story of an obese young woman growing up in Harlem and discovering who she is and through the complex relationships in her world. Did we like it? Hint: One of us gave it a coveted five star rating! Enjoy the read along with this month's cocktail: Starving Artist.Starving Artist1 oz vodka1/2 oz Campari1/2 oz pineapple juice2 oz prosecoIn a shaker with...
2025-08-1524 min
Boss LeapWriting Must Have A Sense Of Joy: On Black Feminist Narratives And Liberation With Prof. Mecca Jamilah SullivanDive into the transformative power of storytelling and self-discovery with Prof. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan in this latest episode, where we unpack the nuances of black feminist thought and its impact on literature and life. In this captivating conversation, Prof. Sullivan, a renowned author and Professor of English at Georgetown University, shares her inspiring journey as a writer and scholar, delving into her works like Big Girl and The Poetics of Difference, which celebrate black women and queer identities. From her early inspirations from literary giants like Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde to her exploration of Harlem’s cultural tapestry an...
2025-06-251h 02
Boss LeapWriting Must Have A Sense Of Joy: On Black Feminist Narratives And Liberation With Prof. Mecca Jamilah SullivanDive into the transformative power of storytelling and self-discovery with Prof. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan in this latest episode, where we unpack the nuances of black feminist thought and its impact on literature and life. In this captivating conversation, Prof. Sullivan, a renowned author and Professor of English at Georgetown University, shares her inspiring journey as a writer and scholar, delving into her works like Big Girl and The Poetics of Difference, which celebrate black women and queer identities. From her early inspirations from literary giants like Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde to her exploration of Harlem’s cultural tapestry and th...
2025-06-251h 00
Queer Lit“Shadows and Noise” with Amber Jamilla MusserHow does your embodiment affect your perception and thus your writing? This is one of many questions Amber Jamilla Musser tackles in her most recent monograph, which builds on her brilliant work in Black feminism and queer femininity. Amber tells us how sensation and individual experience need to be part of an ethics of perception and why queerness is method that allows us to think capaciously and in connection with the body.Come and marinate in the unruliness of being with us! Follow @queerlitpodcast and @a_jamilla on Instagram for more. References:
2024-11-1243 min
普通读者Ep 72. 六七月阅读：女人的疼痛，饿意，与闲聊欲🎙️ 忙碌的夏季结束了，这一期主播们聊了聊夏天我们都干了什么，以及在旅行中，放假中，参加活动中，日常生活和工作中，读到的一些有意思的书。
时间节点
00:00 6月和7月主播们干了什么
15:11 Dead Girls Walking, by Sami Ellis
20:32 Erasure, by Percival Everett (和电影American Fiction对比的闲聊)
27:44 《鳄鱼手记》邱妙津，《氯水人鱼》宋玉
38:45 Cinema Love, by Jiaming Tang
44:39 Big Girl, by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
51:47 《暗处的女儿》[意大利] 埃莱娜·费兰特
59:47 「うたかたの日々」岡崎京子 (原小说《岁月的泡沫》[法]鲍里斯·维昂)
1:08:04 Consent, by Jill Ciment (提到Half a Life, by Jill Ciment)
1:13:23 These Letters End in Tears, by Musih Tedji Xaviere
1:20:01 《迟湖》黄昶
1:25:29 Other Rivers : A Chinese Education, by Peter Hessler
1:32:15 Piglet , by Lottie Hazell
1:34:46 Butter Honey Pig Bread, by Francesca Ekwuyasi
片头音乐credit： Flipper's Guitar - 恋とマシンガン- Young, Alive, in Love -
片尾音乐credit：John Bartman - Happy African Village (Music from Pixabay)
2024-08-271h 41
A seat with me09. All the answers are within you, A Seat With... Martha SambeWHAT A JOY. Todaaaay, I have the honour to sit down with the beautiful Martha Sambe. We met at the African Book Festival a few weeks ago, and i immediately knew i wanted to have her on the podcast.She is a writer, singer, magical black girl, strategist, editor, speaker, born in Nigeria and now located in Hamburg, Germany.We sat down to talk about finding salvation through writing, healing trauma through writing, and we ended up talking about Faith, reclaiming your Life, getting rid of fear and operating from a place of faith. You...
2024-07-171h 33
A seat with me07. Queer Authors, Queer Stories from the African Book Festival Queer EditionToday, in this bonus episode of A SEAT WITH ME, we talk books. Queer books, queer authors, African authors.I've had the pleasure to volunteer at the African Book Festival here in Berlin that went on for three days. It was their 4th edition and their 1st Queer edition. During those 3 days, you had readings, panel discussions, poetry night, African food and market and more. Obviously, when left alone to my own devices with books, i loose my mind and spend all my money. Today, we are talking about all the books i bought at the African...
2024-07-0629 min
Beyond the Shelves: A Podcast from the Des Moines Public LibraryBeyond the Shelves: Reading Through the DecadesOn the latest episode of Beyond the Shelves, Jes and Sarah time travel through the decades, picking a plethora of books set in the past 60 years. Plus, Book Bulletin features the inaugural Libby Awards - what they like, what they don't like, and what they have an issue with! What They're Reading Where the Lost Wander, by Amy Harmon Clean Sweep, by Ilona Andrews The Fragile Threads of Power, by V.E. Schwab The Pairing, by Casey McQuiston Normal People, by Sally Rooney The Reformatory, by Tananarive Due Decade Book Picks 1960s The Women...
2024-04-0357 min
2023-11-1003 min
The Burnt Toast Podcast"Living in a Fat Body is Beautiful and Complicated Sensory Experience."Today Virginia is chatting with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, author of Big Girl.Originally from Harlem, Mecca is now an associate professor of English at Georgetown University and lives in Washington DC. She is also the author The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora and Blue Talk and Love. It is an utter delight to talk about writing, fatness, and bodies with Mecca.If you order Big Girl from the Burnt Toast Bookshop, you can get 10 percent off that purchase if you also order (or have already ordered!) Fat Talk! (Just use the c...
2023-10-1233 min
The Inner Loop Radio: A Creative Writing PodcastHow To Be Prolific with Mecca Jamilah SullivanWhat if you could have quality and quantity in your writing? Or maybe just feel like you can produce freely? Mecca Jamilah Sullivan gives her secret to prolificacy with advice on writing routines, submissions and rejections, and self-care. We get to hear from her novel, Big Girl, now out in paperback, and each of us prepares an application to the generous Society for Cloud Inquiry and Enthusiasm.
2023-07-1041 min
The Inner Loop RadioHow To Be Prolific with Mecca Jamilah SullivanWhat if you could have quality and quantity in your writing? Or maybe just feel like you can produce freely? Mecca Jamilah Sullivan gives her secret to prolificacy with advice on writing routines, submissions and rejections, and self-care. We get to hear from her novel, Big Girl, now out in paperback, and each of us prepares an application to the generous Society for Cloud Inquiry and Enthusiasm.
2023-07-1041 min
OurshelvesOurshelves with Mecca Jamilah SullivanJoin Lucy Scholes as she talks with American author Mecca Jamilah Sullivan about her debut novel, Big Girl – reviewed by the New York Times as ‘achingly beautiful’ – about a young black girl growing up in 1990s Harlem. On the table for discussion is coming-of-age fiction, beauty standards, women’s bodies and matrilineal traditions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-07-0549 min
The Burnt Toast Podcast"I've Been Writing Food Porn for a Year."Today Virginia is chatting with Jo Piazza, best selling author, journalist, and podcast creator. You might know her from her awesome podcast Under the Influence, or her very excellent Substack Over the Influence. And her new book, co-authored with Christine Pride entitled You Were Always Mine, just came out this month.Remember, if you order Jo's book (or any books we mention on the pod!) from the Burnt Toast Bookshop, you can get 10 percent off that purchase if you also order (or have already ordered!) Fat Talk! (Just use the code FATTALK at checkout.)If you...
2023-06-1540 min
The Burnt Toast Podcast"I've Been Writing Food Porn for a Year."Today Virginia is chatting with Jo Piazza, best selling author, journalist, and podcast creator. You might know her from her awesome podcast Under the Influence, or her very excellent Substack Over the Influence. And her new book, co-authored with Christine Pride entitled You Were Always Mine, just came out this month.Remember, if you order Jo's book (or any books we mention on the pod!) from the Burnt Toast Bookshop, you can get 10 percent off that purchase if you also order (or have already ordered!) Fat Talk! (Just use the...
2023-06-1540 min
Lannan Center Podcast2023 Lannan Symposium | "Body Image" Featuring Mecca Jamilah Sullivan and Baseera KhanA Conversation with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan (Author of Big Girl) and Artist Baseera Khan, moderated by Prof. Nadia Brown.If a body could speak, what would it say? The way our bodies are viewed and categorized is not always within our power. A writer and a visual artist reflect upon representing, in words and images, the experiences which come with existing in bodies: black, brown, queer, female, Muslim, big – defined by systems of power beyond our control.Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jam...
2023-02-0954 min
ReadMore PodcastEpisode 066 - Mecca Jamilah SullivanAuthor Mecca Jamilah Sullivan discusses her debut novel, Big Girl, body shaming in the Black community, and the inspiration of '90s' era hip-hop.
2022-11-2736 min
Conversations in Atlantic TheoryMecca Jamilah Sullivan on The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African DiasporaA conversation with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, associate professor in the Department of English at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She has written widely in popular and scholarly venues on African American literature and culture, with particular emphasis on the Black feminist tradition, queer theory, and twentieth and twenty first century literary and cultural works. Mecca is the author of three books. Blue Talk and Love, a short story collection from 2015, was the winner of the Judith Markowitz Award for Fiction from Lambda Literary, and she recently published the novel Big Girl with W.W. Norton & Co. in 2022. She...
2022-11-181h 19
Sarah's Bookshelves LiveEp. 124: Candice Carty-Williams (Author of People Person) + Book RecommendationsCandice Carty-Williams joins me for a spoiler-free discussion of her sophomore novel, People Person. In People Person, Candice writes about serious issues in a light-hearted way that's full of dry humor. She explores questions of obligation to family — especially family to whom you were not previously close. Plus, Candice shares her book recommendations! This post contains affiliate links, through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). Highlights Candice's inspiration behind this story and what it was like writing during a lockdown. The big differences between Ca...
2022-10-0546 min
Books Are Pop CultureBAPC | Mecca Jamilah Sullivan | Episode 40 | "Selffulness"BAPC x Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Reggie and Akili spend time with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan to discuss her awesome debut novel, Big Girl.
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2022-08-111h 31
Discover Top Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of AgeBig Girl: A Novel by Mecca Jamilah SullivanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Girl: A Novel Author: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Exquisitely compassionate and witty, Big Girl traces the intergenerational hungers and desires of Black womanhood, as told through the unforgettable voice of Malaya Clondon. In her highly anticipated debut novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan explores the perils—and undeniable beauty—of insatiable longing. Growing up in a rapidly changing Harlem, eight-year-old Malay...
2022-07-2730 min
Download New Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary WomenBig Girl: A Novel by Mecca Jamilah SullivanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Girl: A Novel Author: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Exquisitely compassionate and witty, Big Girl traces the intergenerational hungers and desires of Black womanhood, as told through the unforgettable voice of Malaya Clondon. In her highly anticipated debut novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan explores the perils—and undeniable beauty—of insatiable longing. Growing up in a rapidly changing Harlem, eight-year-old Malaya hates...
2022-07-2630 min
Fully Booked by Kirkus ReviewsMecca Jamilah SullivanMecca Jamilah Sullivan joins us to discuss Big Girl (Liveright, July 12). Kirkus: “In this debut novel set in 1990s Harlem, a young girl learns—and redefines—what it means to take up space….A lyrical and important coming-of-age novel.” Then our editors join with their reading recommendations for the week.
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2022-07-1251 min
From the Front PorchEpisode 380 || July New Release RundownThis week on From the Front Porch, Annie and Olivia are back for another New Release Rundown. They’re sharing the July releases they’re excited about to help you build your TBR list.
Don’t forget, if you purchase or preorder any of the books they talk about, you can enter the code NEWRELEASEPLEASE at checkout for 10 percent off your order.
The books mentioned in today’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:
Annie’s list:
Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola
Sister Mother Warrior by Vanessa Riley
Th...
2022-07-0750 min
Better to Speak: The PodcastMelly and Kae's Story – Glamorizing the Cultural WorkerThis June, we’re Celebrating Black History and Culture – specifically in honor of Black Music Month, Caribbean Heritage Month, as well as Pride Month. To further explore this, we spoke with Melly and Kae, co-founders of Eight88 Studios – an interdisciplinary production company, about their work to serve independent artists through a Queer Black Feminist lens. They offer artist management, currently managing three independent music artists as they journey through the beginning of their careers, video production and graphic design services, and are cultivating a working environment rooted in the holistic care of all artists: from the stor...
2022-06-141h 00From the Front PorchEpisode || 370 April Reading RecapIn this episode of From the Front Porch, Annie is recapping all of the books she read in April. Shorter versions of these reviews can be found on Annie’s personal Instagram page. The books mentioned in today’s episode are available for purchase at The Bookshelf’s website and there’s a Reading Recap bundle featuring Annie’s three favorite titles from this month’s readings, available at a discounted price. Here is the link to purchase a Summer Literary Lunch ticket.
You can find links to the books mentioned in this episode below:
These Silent...
2022-04-2847 min
Keep It FictionalMost Anticipated Reads of 2022 (May - August) Part 1We're here to add books to your TBR. Check out the upcoming titles Corene, Fiona, Gabriel, and Virginia are looking forward to reading. Stories may include heists, enemies-to-lovers, mushroom foraging, and blood magic. Books mentioned in this episode: The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas, Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler, The Witchery by S. Isabelle, The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez, The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope, Haven by Emma Donoghue, The Hangman Feeds the Jackal by Coy Hall, Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane, Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club by Roselle Lim, Big Girl by M...
2022-04-1248 min
Being HumanThe Poetics Of Difference, An Interview With Mecca Jamilah SullivanAn interview with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, professor of English at Bryn Mawr College. The interview focuses on Professor Sullivan's most recent book The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora.Information on the essay collection Teaching Black, from the University of Pittsburgh Press, can be found here: upittpress.org/books/9780822946953/.The webpage for Professor Sullivan's upcoming novel can be found here: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/712169…781324091417.
2021-12-1051 min
Imagine Otherwise by Ideas on FireMecca Jamilah Sullivan on Cultivating Joy through Queer Black Feminist ArtOver the past few years, we've seen more and more vibrant intersectional and interdisciplinary cultural production get the attention it so richly deserves. This work builds on a long history of refusing to separate the personal from the political in Third World and women of color feminism, radical Black and queer activism, and movements for economic, disability, and environmental justice. All of these traditions have valued the role of art in sparking social change, as the creative and the revolutionary are never far apart. In episode 133 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews creative writer, scholar, and...
2021-05-1221 min
LA Review of BooksLiterary LA: Stephen Van Dyck Meets People from the InternetHost Eric Newman is joined by Stephen Van Dyck, author of People I Met on the Internet, a series of narrative vignettes derived from the list Van Dyck kept for over a decade of all the men he first met online. Van Dyck talks about how internet chat rooms and blogs offered him a new safe world of contact as a shy queer teen; the unique counterintuitive intimacy of online encounters, and how sex often operates as a backdrop for more interesting experiences.
Also, Shelly Oria, editor of Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement, returns to...
2019-10-1132 min