Lafayette Earworm

Get Booked

Jenn and guest Charity Yoro give poetry recs, holiday gift picks, Erik Larson comps, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Books Discussed

Daughters of Fire by Tom Peek

Kaui Hart Hemmings and Kawai Strong Washburn

This is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell

The Black Count by Tom Reiss

Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles (CW: sex, drugs, rock-n-roll content)

Anne Carson (An Autobiography of Red)

Carmen Maria Machado (In the Dream House, cw: domestic abuse)

Ocean Vuong (On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous)

Citizen by Claudia Rankine

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

Londoners by Craig Taylor

Brick Lane by Monica Ali

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Bernardine Evaristo (Girl, Woman, Other)

Kraken by China Mieville

You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened by Arisa White

Directed by Desire by June Jordan

Autostraddle post: https://www.autostraddle.com/read-a-fcking-book-ten-lesbian-bisexual-poets-34457/

The Witch Boy series by Molly Knox Ostertag

Paola Santiago and the River of Tears by Tehlor Kay Mejia

Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow

One Hundred Days by Alice Pung (cw: emotional and physical abuse)

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