Season 11: Episode 6 | Casting Cora
A short take on Thuso Mbedu from South Africa who was cast as a 15-year-old enslaved black girl named Cora in the film adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad.
Season 11: Episode 3 | Frank Yerby
A short take on novelist Frank Yerby.
Season 11: Episode 2 | Ann Petry’s The Street
A short take on Ann Petry’s The Street.
Season 10: Episode 7 | The Oracle, Ben McFall
A short take on Ben McFall, who managed the fiction section at the Strand for over four decades.
Season 10: Episode 6 | Toni Morrison’s Statement About Writing & Revision
A short take on an alternative way of understanding a popular Toni Morrison quotation.
Season 10: Episode 3 | Wayetu Moore’s She Would Be King
A short take on Wayetu Moore’s debut novel about a redheaded Black woman with supernatural powers.
Season 10: Episode 1 | African American Literature, Film Adaptations, and Berry Jenkins
A short take on African American novels adapted to film by Barry Jenkins.
Season 9: Episode 7 | Some Ways of Thinking About African American Literary Data Work
An episode about African American Literary Data Work, covering subjects such as frequently featured authors in scholarly journals, film adaptations and Wikipedia pageviews, novel ratings on Goodreads, and Toni Morrison’s reception.
Season 9: Episode 6 | African American Literary Data Work
A short take on African American literary data work.
Season 9: Episode 5 | Quantifying Toni Morrison’s Reception
A short take on the remarkable reception of Toni Morrison.