Books Are My People Jennifer Caloyeras
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Find your next great read. Book recommendations, book news and guests, including top authors and other book enthusiasts who discuss what’s happening in the world of books with a focus on frontlist and backlist fiction including literary fiction, suspense, historical, memoir and nonfiction.
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How to Start an Independent Press
This week, author and Drag Queen Story Hour founder Michelle Tea visits and talks to us about her new Press, Dopamine, its forthcoming anthology, Sluts and how she generates so much writing.
This episode of Books Are My People is sponsored by The Year We Danced, A Memoir by Stephen E. Smith
Books Discussed:
Sluts Anthology edited by Michelle Tea
My Child The Algorithm by Hannah Silva
Skunks by Fiona Warnick
Candy Darling : Dreamer Superstar by Candy Darling
Missing White Woman by Kellye Garrett
Luster by Raven Leilani
Other Things Discussed:
MISA: Madeline Island Arts School
Sign up for my Read With Me Series in May where we are reading The Book of Ayn by Lexi Freiman
Apartment Guide’s on 7 Guidelines for building a home library featuring some bookshelf advice by yours truly.
Visit Michelle Tea’s Website here.
Find Michelle Tea on Instagram @michelleteaz
Find Michelle on Facebook @MichelleTea
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Turning Discarded Books Into Art
Collage artist and printmaker Sarah Z. Short talks about her creative process, how language figures into her art, the books she used to love to teach and, she recommends some of her favorite reads on episode 124 of Books Are My People.
Books Discussed:
The Hunter by Tana French
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarrow
One Hundred Days by Alice Pung
The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel
Sarah Z. Short Website
Sarah Z. Short on Instagram
Other Things Discussed:
The Women by Kritsin Hannah giveaway closes 5/9/24 US mailing addresses only.
Click here to be taken to my Substack
Read with me series in May is The Book Of Ayn by Lexi Frieman
FSG Poetry hotline 385 3425374 Monday - Friday in April
Instructables Competition
George Orwell’s 1984 audiobook link
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Murder in Sicily with Jo Piazza author of The Sicilian Inheritance
#123 with Jo Piazza The Sicilian Inheritance
This week, I talk food and books with The Sicilian Inheritance author and podcaster extraordinaire, Jo Piazza.
Book Recommended
The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo Piazza
The Secret Book of Flora Lee by Patti Callahan Henry
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Finlay Donovan is Killing it by Elle Cosimano
Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead by Elle Cosimano
Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun by Elle Cosimano
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
Breaking and Entering by Don Gilmore
Other things mentioned:
The Sicilian Inheritance Podcast (Watch the trailer)
Under the Influence Podcast
Where to find Jo Piazza:
Substack: Over the Influence @Jopiazza
Instagram: @joypiazzaauthor
Book Giveaway: Monsters We Have Made closes Wednesday, April 17th
To Enter: Visit and post a comment on my Instagram Page and make sure you subscribe to my Books Are My People newsletter on Substack. Open to US mailing addresses only. Gain extra entries by tagging friends and sharing in your stories.
Link to LA Times Festival of Books.
Sponsorship: reach out to booksaremypeople@gmail.com
Link to my Books Are My People Substack
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Changing Legislation through Books with Garrard Conley
Author Garrard Conley (Boy Erased) speaks with me about his latest novel, All The World Beside. We talk about the research involved in writing historical fiction, how he helped change legislature, and some scandalous letters he discovered while conducting research. ,
Books Recommended:
All the World Beside by Garrard Conley
Exhibit by R.O. Kwon
James by Percival Everett
The Son of Man by Jean-Baptiste del Amo
The Morningside by Tea Obrecht
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Other Books Mentioned:
Anamalia by Jean-Baptiste del Amo
Ramona Ausebel, author of The Last Animal, recommends Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
Garrard Conley's Links:
Instagram @gayrodcon
Twitter @gayrodcon
podcast : History Unerased
Giveaway for Amy Lin’s Here After closes on 3/27/24
Open to U.S. mailing addreses only.
My Read With Me series on Substack begins in May. We Will be reading The Book of Ayn by Lexi Freiman
March 27th at 9 am PT Free Book Cover Art Along and Book Discussion. You must be registered here to attend.
April 2: Substack Paying Subscriber Discussion on The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee and the TV series, The Expats time: TBD
Hugo awards Article
Tournament of Books
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How to Write A Graphic Memoir
In episode #121, graphic memoirist, Kelcey Ervick joins the show to talk about her graphic memoir and what it’s like to write about and draw her lived experience.
Books Recommended:
I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib
The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft
Good Talk by Mira Jacob
The Painter’s Daughter by Emily Howes
Give Me Space But Don't Go Far by Haley Weaver
Kelcey's books:
The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law that Changed Women's Lives
Field Guide to Graphic Literature
Find Kelcey online:
Website
Substack
Instagram
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Roxana Robinson
Roxana Robinson (Leaving) and I discuss novels that move us, Parisian sewers and best approaches to teaching writing.
Books Recommended:
Leaving by Roxana Robinson
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert MacFarlane
Piglet by Lottie Hazell
Trespasses Louise Kennedy
Alice Sadie Celine by Sarah Blakley-Cartright
Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley
Guest Author Recommendation:
Mrs. Gulliver by Valerie Martin
Twitter: @ValerieMmart
The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Other Things Discussed:
The Expatriates in March and Expats on Substack
Find Roxana on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/roxana.robinson
And on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roxanarobinsonauthor/
Wesbsite: https://www.roxanarobinson.com
Find me on Instagram @jennifercaloyeras
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Customer Reviews
Lovely book podcast
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I love this podcast for being the perfect mix of interview and book review, and the pace is just perfect (not too long—some podcasts I have to skip through!)
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