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 5 | From Verses to Visuals on Jack Johnson
A short take on the graphic novel Last on His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century written by Adrian Matejka and drawn by Youssef Daoudi.
Season 10: Episode 4 | Jonathan Major’s the Conqueror
A short take on Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror.
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.
Season 9: Episode 4 | Film Adaptations and Wikipedia Pageviews
A short take on the key factor that pushes African American novels above 100,000 Wikipedia pageviews.