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Episode 9: Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

What is a “graphic novel”? We don’t come up with an actual answer, but we know it’s something bougie.

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BCL Chat: What Book Must Every Black Woman Read?

Join us for a messy, wine-inspired episode where we discuss the titles you said were required reading for all black women

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Episode 8: Binti and Binti: Home

Black girls in space with poppin’ melanin? We’re here for it.

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Episode 7: There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé

This book of poetry inspired us to make 2017 blacker than ever. Read it.

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Episode 6: This Could Be Us But You Playin’

New rule: You don’t know how to use a comma, we don’t read your book. It’s 2017. We’re not putting up with this shit no more.

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Episode 5: Bye, 2016

We spent most of this terrible year trying to escape reality through fiction. It only sort of worked. Join us for a look back on the books we read in 2016 and our goals for 2017.

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Episode 4: Swing Time

Zadie Smith: Bougie or just British? We touch on that and more as we discuss Smith’s latest novel, “Swing Time.”

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Episode 3: We Love You, Charlie Freeman

We picked Kaitlyn Greenidge’s “We Love You, Charlie Freeman” thinking it would a fun absurd piece of literature. Instead, we got a tense, tragic story of a family torn apart by a monkey.

As you may have learned, we only barely ever know what we’re reading.

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Episode 2: Another Brooklyn

When we picked Jacqueline Woodson’s “Another Brooklyn,” we though we we’re getting a light summer read. Boy, were we wrong. This book is quick, but it’s chock full of substance.

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Episode 1: Queen Sugar

We read Natalie Baszile’s “Queen Sugar” and had no idea what the f@#k was going on.

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