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Skylight Books Podcast Series

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01:00:48

Lit Angeles, Ep. 1: ”THE BIG SLEEP” w/ Jonathan Ames

Skylight Books Podcast Series ·

2022/06/07

Join us for a brand new series in the Skylight arsenal, Lit Angeles! In this soon-to-be-regular segment, our hosts Emily VanKoughnett and Alena Saunders take a deep dive into Angeleno's rich literary history, one book at a time, exploring select titles that they believe illustrate the City of Angels with depth and texture. In the first episode, they tackle Raymond Chandler's proto-noir detective classic, The Big Sleep, in particular Chandler's timeless anti-authoritarian streak and his all-time

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01:30:33

LIVE ON CROWDCAST: H. Melt, ”THERE ARE TRANS PEOPLE...

Skylight Books Podcast Series ·

2022/06/03

There are trans people here in the past, the present, and the future. H. Melt's writing centers the deep care, love, and joy within trans communities. This poetry collection describes moments of resistance in queer and trans history as catalysts for movements today. It honors trans ancestors and contemporary activists, artists, and writers fighting for trans liberation. There Are Trans People Here is a testament to the healing power of community and the beauty of trans people, history, and

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01:11:46

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Tommy Pico

Skylight Books Podcast Series ·

2022/06/01

Join us for an amazing conversation with poet, podcaster, and TV writer Tommy Pico, as he discusses his career and the delineating differences between his different creative pursuits. Hosted by Lance Morgan. _______________________________________________ Produced by Nat Freeman, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski. Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang.

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01:19:15

SKYLIT: Sequoia Maner, ”33 1/3 KENDRICK LAMAR’S TO...

Skylight Books Podcast Series ·

2022/05/31

Breaking the global record for streams in a single day, nearly 10 million people around the world tuned in to hear Kendrick Lamar's sophomore album in the hours after its release. To Pimp a Butterfly was widely hailed as an instant classic, garnering laudatory album reviews, many awards, and even a canonized place in Harvard's W. E. B. Du Bois archive. Why did this strangely compelling record stimulate the emotions and imaginations of listeners? This book takes a deep dive into the sounds, images,

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57:46

LIVE ON CROWDCAST: María Sánchez, ”LAND OF WOMEN” w/...

Skylight Books Podcast Series ·

2022/05/27

María Sánchez is obsessed with what she cannot see. As a field veterinarian following in the footsteps of generations before her, she travels the countryside of Spain bearing witness to a life eroding before her eyes--words, practices, and people slipping away because of depopulation, exploitation of natural resources, inadequate environmental policies, and development encroaching on farmland and villages. Sánchez, the first woman in her family to dedicate herself to what has traditionally been a

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53:34

LIVE ON CROWDCAST: Angel Dominguez, ”DESGRACIADO” w/...

Skylight Books Podcast Series ·

2022/05/25

In Desgraciado, Angel Dominguez navigates language and memory to illuminate the ongoing traumas of misremembered and missing histories and their lasting impacts. Dominguez unravels a critical and tender language of lived experience in letters addressed to their ancestral oppressor, Diego de Landa, (a Spanish friar who attempted to destroy the written Maya language in Mani Yucat n, on July 12th 1562), to articulate an old rage, dreaming of a futurity beyond the wreckage and ruin of the colonial

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45:38

SKYLIT: Naheed Phiroze Patel, ”MIRROR MADE OF RAIN”...

Skylight Books Podcast Series ·

2022/05/23

Despite an embarrassing, alcoholic mother, Noomi Wadia is loathe to change her own hard-partying ways simply because it's what's expected in Kamalpur high society. As her peers begin to marry and her social obligations become more fraught, she finds herself under constant scrutiny at summer parties of the city's upper crust. With her options in her hometown growing increasingly limited, Noomi leaves for Mumbai and quickly becomes a successful journalist. There she falls in love with Veer, who

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35:08

SKYLIT: Suchin Pak & Michelle Sugihara, ”MY LIFE:...

Skylight Books Podcast Series ·

2022/05/20

Through a series of essays, poems, and comics, thirty creators give voice to moments that defined them and shed light on the immense diversity and complexity of the Asian American identity. Edited by CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) and with an introduction by renowned journalist SuChin Pak, My Life: Growing Up Asian in America is a celebration of community, a call to action, and a road map for a brighter future. Pak is in conversation with CAPE executive director Michelle

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39:32

SKYLIT: Sonora Reyes, ”THE LESBIANA’S GUIDE TO...

Skylight Books Podcast Series ·

2022/05/18

Sixteen-year-old Yamilet Flores prefers to be known for her killer eyeliner, not for being one of the only Mexican kids at her new, mostly white, very rich Catholic school. But at least here no one knows she’s gay, and Yami intends to keep it that way. After being outed by her crush and ex-best friend before transferring to Slayton Catholic, Yami has new priorities: keep her brother out of trouble, make her mom proud, and, most importantly, don’t fall in love. Granted, she’s never been great at

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59:01

LIVE ON CROWDCAST: Julio Anta, ”HOME” w/ Pornsak...

Skylight Books Podcast Series ·

2022/05/16

After being separated from his mother at the US border, a young Guatemalan immigrant must learn to harness emerging superhuman abilities while being hunted by the Federal Government. Join us for a conversation between Home writer Julio Anta and Pornsak Pichetshote, recorded live on our Crowdcast channel on February 22, 2022. _______________________________________________ Produced by Natalie Freeman, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski. Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile

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53:48

LIVE ON CROWDCAST: Catriona Ward, ”SUNDIAL” w/...

Skylight Books Podcast Series ·

2022/05/13

All Rob wanted was a normal life. She almost got it, too: a husband, two kids, a nice house in the suburbs. But Rob fears for her oldest daughter, Callie, who collects tiny bones and whispers to imaginary friends. Rob sees a darkness in Callie, one that reminds her too much of the family she left behind. She decides to take Callie back to her childhood home, to Sundial, deep in the Mojave Desert. And there she will have to make a terrible choice. Callie is worried about her mother. Rob has begun

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41:22

ARTS ANNEX: Shala Miller, ”TENDER NOTED”

Skylight Books Podcast Series ·

2022/05/11

Join us for a conversation with artist Shala Miller, as she discusses her relationship with her father, her pursuit of her craft, and her new book, Tender Noted. _______________________________________________ Produced by Natalie Freeman, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski. Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang. Visit https://www.skylightbooks.com/event for future offerings from the Skylight Books Events team.

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37:07

SKYLIT: Jarred McGinnis, ”THE COWARD”

Skylight Books Podcast Series ·

2022/05/10

Join us for a conversation with author Jarred McGinnis as he discusses disabled representation in literature, the seperation between auto fiction and memoir, and his new novel, The Coward. _______________________________________________ Produced by Natalie Freeman, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski. Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang. Visit https://www.skylightbooks.com/event for future offerings from the Skylight Books Events team.

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53:53

LIVE ON CROWDCAST: Sara Gran, ”THE BOOK OF THE MOST...

Skylight Books Podcast Series ·

2022/05/06

After a tragedy too painful to bear, former novelist Lily Albrecht has resigned herself to a dull, sexless life as a rare book dealer. Until she gets a lead on a book that just might turn everything around. The Book of the Most Precious Substance is a 17th century manual on sex magic, rumored to be the most powerful occult book ever written--if it really exists at all. And some of the wealthiest people in the world are willing to pay Lily a fortune to find it-if she can. Her search for the book

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01:00:11

SKYLIT: Kelly Barnhill, ”WHEN WOMEN WERE DRAGONS”

Skylight Books Podcast Series ·

2022/05/04

Join us for a conversation with Kelly Barnhill, as she discusses the lasting importance of Christine Blasey Ford, how she turned joy into destruction, and her new novel, When Women Were Dragons. _______________________________________________ Produced by Natalie Freeman, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski. Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang. Visit https://www.skylightbooks.com/event for future offerings from the Skylight Books Events team.

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40:50

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Kim Kelly

Skylight Books Podcast Series ·

2022/05/03

Fresh off of May Day 2022, join us for a conversation with organizer and journalist Kim Kelly, as she discusses the feasibility of labor reform in her lifetime, the origins of Independent Workers' Day, and her new book, Fight Like Hell. _______________________________________________ Produced by Natalie Freeman, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski. Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang. Visit https://www.skylightbooks.com/event for future offerings from the Skylight

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41:25

SKYLIT: Claire Kohda, ”WOMAN, EATING”

Skylight Books Podcast Series ·

2022/04/30

Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try Japanese food. Sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside - the food her Japanese father liked to eat. And then there is bubble tea and iced-coffee, ice cream and cake, and foraged herbs and plants, and the vegetables grown by the other young artists at the London studio space she is secretly squatting in. But, Lydia can't eat any of these things. Her body doesn't work like those of other people. The only thing she can digest is blood, and it

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39:08

SKYLIT: Adam Frost, ”THE DAMNED LOVELY”

Skylight Books Podcast Series ·

2022/04/29

"She wasn't pretty but she was ours..." Sandwiched between seedy businesses in the scorching east LA suburb of Glendale, The Damned Lovely dive bar is as scarred as its regulars: ex-cops, misfits and loners. And for Sam Goss, it's a refuge from the promising life he's walked away from, a place to write and a hole to hide in. But when a beautiful and mysterious new patron to the bar turns up murdered, Sam can't stop himself from getting involved. Despite their fleeting interaction, or perhaps

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43:58

SKYLIT: Fernanda Melchor, ”PARADAIS” w/ Sophie Hughes

Skylight Books Podcast Series ·

2022/04/26

Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor—an attractive married woman and mother—while Polo dreams about quitting his grueling job as a gardener within the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks he deserves, Franco and Polo hatch a mindless and

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46:59

SKYLIT: Gregory D. Smithers, ”RECLAIMING TWO SPIRITS”...

Skylight Books Podcast Series ·

2022/04/23

Reclaiming Two-Spirits decolonizes the history of gender and sexuality in Native North America. It honors the generations of Indigenous people who had the foresight to take essential aspects of their cultural life and spiritual beliefs underground in order to save them. Before 1492, hundreds of Indigenous communities across North America included people who identified as neither male nor female, but both. They went by aakíí’skassi, miati, okitcitakwe, or one of hundreds of other tribally specific

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