(NSFW) Jason Green blended ultramarathon, punk, and skateboard cultures to form the Yeti Trail Runners. We talk about how books fired his imagination as a weird kid in rural appalachia, why running books suck, and what happens to the brain of a sixteen-year-old when he reads Carlos Castaneda.
Chapter 29: "How Did We Get Here?" - Ryan T. Woods
In a time when religious tensions are reshaping national politics, religious historian Ryan T. Woods helps us answer urgent questions. What is an Evangelical? How did Evangelicalism evolve into what it is today? How was the Christian movement first perceived by the Romans? Why is Shirley Jackson like a pumpkin spice latte?
Books/Authors Mentioned:
// Christian Smith
// The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances Fitzgerald
// The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity by Robert Louis Wilken
// The Christians as the Romans Saw Them by Robert Louis Wilken
// The Land We Are - edited by Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill and Sophie McCall
// Paranoia by Shirley Jackson
// The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
// The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel
Chapter 28: "A Long Road" - Wende Ballew
Wende Ballew spends a lot of time in prison. As executive director of Reforming Arts, she helps incarcerated women gain an education and tell their stories through theater.
She talks with us about how prisoners see their stories, what she reads, and how her reading life changed after her experiences in the prison system deepened.
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Chapter 27: "A Podcast About Two Podcasts About Books" - Alison Law
In this mashup with "Literary Atlanta," we talk with fellow podcaster Alison Law about building community around stories.
Make sure to subscribe and follow Alison’s podcast, Literary Atlanta!
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BOOKS DISCUSSED:
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Lookaway, Lookaway by Wilton Barnhardt
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
What Are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson
Maus: A Survivor’s Tale I. My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
Maus: A Survivor’s Tale II. And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Watchmen by Alan Moore
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Live from the 2018 Decatur Book Festival
This year at the largest independent book festival in the nation, we connected with old and new friends to talk about books, community, and Aline's secret plan to take over the podcast.
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Chapter 26: "Meet People Where They Are" - Phi Nguyen
Phi Nguyen is a litigation director for Advancing Justice Atlanta, and she co-hosts our new favorite Facebook show, Wake Up Atlanta! She talks with us about translating legislation into story, connecting with her history and community through literature, and working for justice.
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BOOKS DISCUSSED
Exit West - Mohsin Hamid
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
The Best We Could Do - Thi Bui
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Chapter 25: "All Politicians Should Read" - Ted Terry
As the mayor of Clarkston, Ted guides policy in the most diverse square mile in America. He talks with us about the books that led him to environmentalism and politics, and we help him decide whether or not to read "Game of Thrones."
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BOOKS DISCUSSED:
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
Outcasts United by Warren St. John
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
Tao Te Ching by Laozi (translated by Stephen Mitchell)
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin
Harper's Magazine
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
— Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad (1869), Vol. II, Conclusion.
Chapter 24: "My Artwork Was My Counselor" - Yehimi Cambron
Yehimi Cambron's artwork has become iconic in the struggle for immigrant rights in Atlanta. She talks with us about her own migration to life as a teacher, artist, and activist.
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BOOKS DISCUSSED:
Night by Elie Wiesel
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
The Politics of Reality: Oppression by Marilyn Frye
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Chapter 23: There's Also Some Hope in the World: A field recording from Atlanta's poetry scene
Tim and Ian left the bookstore and ventured out to Urban Grind in West Midtown to hear local poets perform before a live audience. In this episode, we learn what drives them to open mics, how they hope people will connect with their work, and what slam poetry is all about. Warning - NSFW!
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Amena Brown
Urban Grind
Ashlee Haze
Poetry Slam, Inc.
SlamATL
Chapter 22: "The Full Flourishing" - David Park and George Tatro
David and George pastor churches at points of racial tension. In our most NSFW episode yet, we talk with them about Jesus, prophets, powers, principalities, and good books. At the end, George urges you to send us money.
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BOOKS DISCUSSED
Darktown by Thomas Mullen
Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus by Ched Myers
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Chapter 21: "Bingo, Bango, the Nazis Are Coming" - Steve McCondichie
Novelist and publisher Steve McCondichie's hometown of Newnan, Georgia made national headlines when a Nazi group held a rally there and Antifa arrived to counter-protest. Steve tells us how the town responded, and we talk about the importance of honest stories about the South.
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BOOKS DISCUSSED:
Be Here Now by Ram Dass
Let No One Get Hurt by Jon Pineda
The Code of the Extraordinary Mind by Vishen Lakhiani
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Chapter 20: "Of Course We Prefer to Find Hope" - Gary and Vivian Chapman
Gary and Vivian Chapman capture hope and dignity in difficult places around the world through photography and storytelling. They talk with us about what drives them, listening to audiobooks, and the weird thing Gary looks for in bookstores around the world.
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BOOKS DISCUSSED:
Behind the Beautiful Forever: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof
Iberia by James A. Michener
Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson
Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon
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Chapter 19: "To Find Myself in These Stories" - Kaitlin Curtice
Kaitlin B. Curtice was a Southern Baptist when she began to recognize and connect with her Potawatomi heritage. We talk with her about the writers who have helped her navigate her complex identity and what led her to write her new book, Glory Happening.
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BOOKS/AUTHORS DISCUSSED:
Barbara Brown Taylor
Brennan Manning
Thomas Merton
Richard Rohr
Brian McLaren
Randy Woodley
"Neither Wolf Nor Dog" by Kent Nerburn
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Chapter 18: "You Can't Divorce Hope From Activism" - Sho Baraka
In one of our favorite episodes to date, rapper, writer, and community organizer Sho Baraka talks with us about hope, activism, faith and partisan politics.
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BOOKS DISCUSSED:
Going Down Jericho Road by Michael Honey
The Beloved Community by Charles Marsh
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Chapter 17: "They'll Still Be Telling Their Stories" - Kalin Thomas
Kalin Thomas is the Program Director at The Wren's Nest. She talks with us about preserving folklore and equipping a new generation to tell their stories.
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BOOKS DISCUSSED:
The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin
Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change by Pema Chödrön
The Class of '65: A Student, a Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness by Jim Auchmutey
A Place at the Table by Susan Rebecca White
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America by Ivan Van Sertima
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America by Lerone Bennett Jr.
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Chapter 16: "What a year!"
Tim and Ian recap their 2017 in books and talk about what's next for the podcast. Along the way, we discuss reading authors who aren't dead white men, political novels, and Jesus.
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Chapter 15: "New Life Can Grow Again" - Amena Brown
Author Amena Brown takes us on a tour of Atlanta's poetry scene, tells us about the vulnerability of writing her new book, "How to Fix a Broken Record," and agrees with us that it's a good thing to cry sometimes.
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BOOKS/AUTHORS DISCUSSED:
Anne Lamott
When The Heart Waits by Sue Monk Kidd
Collin Kelley
Glory Happening by Kaitlin Curtice
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
The Dream of You by Jo Saxton
I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove by Ahmir Questlove Thompson
Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation by Ahmir Questlove Thompson
something to food about: Exploring Creativity with Innovative Chefs by Ahmir Questlove Thompson
MUSIC DISCUSSED:
Robert Glasper
Erykah Badu
Anthony David
Algebra
A Seat At The Table - Solange
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Kamasi Washington
Light of the Sun - Jill Scott
Thundercat
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Chapter 14: "Now We Know What's Going On" - Marco Palma
Marco left his home on Buford Highway to study political science. Now he's back in the neighborhood cultivating community as president of Los Vecinos de Buford Highway. We talk with him about the books that brought him home and what they showed him about the place.
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BOOKS DISCUSSED:
Discipline and Punishment by Michel Foucault
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa by Cesar Chavez
Urban Sprawl and Public Health by Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson
Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
Gentrifier by Jason Patch, John Joe Schlichtman, and Marc Lamont Hill
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
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Chapter 13: "It's That Human Connection" - Bee Nguyen
GA State House candidate Bee Nguyen is a lifetime reader. She talks with us about immigrant fiction, riding the train, how her refugee parents perceive her activism, and empathy in politics.
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BOOKS DISCUSSED:
The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam by Paisley Rekdal
The Firm by John Grisham
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Free Food For Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
Fresh Off the Boat by Eddie Huang
Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human by Elizabeth Hess
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Chapter 12: "Practice Incarnation" - Judy Dominick
Our friend Judy reads, works, and writes at points of racial tension. We talk with her about building bridges, Christianity, generational trauma, immigration, books, and why people need to stop being such buttholes sometimes.
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BOOKS DISCUSSED:
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times by Soong-Chan Rah
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