Chapter 11: "If They're Asleep to Wake Them Up" - Willene Keel

We talk with Tim's middle school English teacher about literature, teaching, politics, and the role of reading in rural America. Tim also gushes a few times about her impact on his young, malleable mind.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED:

All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg

Liberal Redneck Manifesto by Trae Crowder, Drew Morgan, Corey Ryan Forrester

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance

Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

AUTHORS/BLOGGERS DISCUSSED:

Louise Penny

Jen Hatmaker

Ann Lamott

Rachel Held Evans

Carson McCullers

Wendell Berry

Dan Rather

Chapter 10: "I Just Wanted to Introduce Them" - Kitti Murray

Founder of Refuge Coffee Company Kitti Murray talks with us about poetry, diversity, and where her Christian faith meets her desire for justice. We also go on and on about running.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED:

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

What is the What? by Dave Eggers

Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town by Warren St. John

They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan by Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng

AUTHORS DISCUSSED:

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Sylvia Plath

Robert Frost

MORE INFORMATION:

Refuge Coffee Company

Kitti's Website

City of Clarkston

Live From the 2017 Decatur Book Festival

It's a special on-site edition of the podcast! Tim and guest host Aline Mello take to the streets at Atlanta's very own Decatur Book Festival and talk with fellow attendees, authors, and publishing companies - and they just may run into a few friends along the way.

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Chapter 9: "Walk You to the Fence" - Brett Trapp

Brett Trapp, a pastor's kid from small-town Alabama, told his story of coming out in the Christian community on his blog "Blue Babies Pink." He talks to us about the author's who inspired him, the ideas he's exploring, and how he honors the people he writes for and about.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED:

The Jesus Storybook Bible by Sally Lloyd-Jones

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marías

The Man of Feeling by Javier Marías

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

The Disaster Artist by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Unclean: Mediations on Puristy, Hospitality, and Mortality by Richard Beck

Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller

AUTHORS DISCUSSED:

Brené Brown

Anne Lamott

MORE INFORMATION:

Blue Babies Pink

Brett's Twitter

Brett's Instagram

Chapter 8: "That Fierce, Tender, Loving Care" - Keisha Cameron

We talk cultivation and books with farmer, anthropologist, and reader Keisha Cameron. She tells us how she creates space for diversity, creativity, and meaningful change through farming, hospitality, and food.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED:

The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

The War of the End of the World - Mario Vargas Llosa

The Assistant by Robert Walser

Eichmann and the Holocaust by Hannah Arendt

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen

Harvesting Justice by Jeri Crouch

Anywhere Farm by Phyllis Root

The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience, and Farming by Natasha Bowens

AUTHORS DISCUSSED:

Joel Saliton

Wendell Berry

Barry Lopez

Ellen Davis

MORE INFORMATION:

The Exchange

Chapter 7: "That Requires Life Together" - Brian Bollinger

Brian Bollinger takes a break from his work as Executive Director of Friends of Refugees to talk books with us. He walks us through his wide-ranging list of current and upcoming reads. Along the way, we talk about nonprofit work, Christian spirituality, and Spanish language learning.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED:

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality by Peter Scazzero

Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic by John de Graf, David Wann, and Thomas H. Naylor

Love is Like Fire by Peter Riedeman

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

The Arrival by Shaun Tan

Poverty of Nations: A Sustainable Solution by Wayne Grudem

Coruscant Nights by Michael Reaves

Tales of the Bounty Hunters by Daniel Keys Moran, Dave Wolverton, Kathy Tyers, Kevin J. Anderson, and M. Shayne Bell

Seeking Refuge: On the Shores of the Global Refugee Crisis by Issam Smeir, Matthew Soerens, and Stephan Bauman

Refugee by Alan Gratz

El Mago de Oz by L. Frank Baum

El jardin do lo senderos que se bifurcan by Jorge Louis Borges

GET INVOLVED:

Friends of Refugees

"Now That You're Awake"

In the wake of Charlottesville, we got together with Bob Roarty and Megan Leach at Atlanta Vintage Books to talk about what to read as we're processing this weekend's events.

If you're looking for history, hope, or ideas to carry forward, we hope this episode offers you something helpful. There are a few expletives, so be careful playing it at work or around kids.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED:
March by John Lewis
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Stephen Pinker
What Are People For? by Wendell Berry
Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
Resistance by Barry Lopez
The Beast Reawakens by Martin A. Lee
The Rise of Fascism by F.L. Carsten
Understanding and Dismantling Racism: The 21st Century Challenge to White America by Joseph Barndt
Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South by John Egerton
Love and Revolution: A Political Memoir: People's History of the Greensboro Massacre, Its Setting and Aftermath by Signe Waller
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For by Alice Walker

Chapter 6: "But Because They're Mine" - Aline Mello

Aline Mello is an editor, writer, and immigrant. She talks with us about involuntary politicization, guarding her stories, the potency of poetry, and how her reading and writing have shifted after the election.

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BOOKS MENTIONED:

Mujerista Theology by Ada María Isasi-Díaz

What is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything by Rob Bell

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

WHERE ALINE IS PUBLISHED ONLINE:

In All Ways But One: An Undocumented Immigrant's American Experience

Chapter 5: "Radical, She Said!" - Megan Leach

Anarchist, artist, and avid reader Megan Leach talks with us about why radical ideas matter, and how literature is the ideal place to encounter them. Along the way, we talk about zines, collage, abandoned places, and independent bookstores around the world.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED:

My Struggle series by Karl Ove Knausgård

Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici

Destroy, She Said by Margarite Duras

Bartleby and Co by Enrique Vila-Matas

Granny Made Me an Anarchist: General Franco, the Angry Brigade, and Me by Stuart Christie

OTHER LINKS

Megan Leach's Instagram Page

AK Press

Chapter 4: "The Best for the Most" - Tim Isaacson

Immigration Advocate Tim Isaacson tells us how he went from working with the CDC to pastoring a church to legal advocacy for immigrants. He talks about the books that influenced him along the way, and why Evangelicals sometimes miss out on the chance to love their immigrant neighbors.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED:

The Gunslinger by Stephen King

The Earthsea Series by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Word For World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

Your Cat's Just Not That Into You: What Part of 'Meow' Don't You Understand by Richard Smith

Generous Justice by Tim Keller

Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion, and Truth in the Immigration Debate by Matt Soerens

Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Bible by M. Daniel Carroll

Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle

LEARN MORE ABOUT TIM:

Immigrant Hope - Atlanta

Chapter 3: "Solitude and Community" - Eric North

We crack a beer and talk about the links between solitary activities and community with rocker, reader, and runner Eric North. We also finally settle the debate over the ethics of audiobook consumption and hear a song based on a William Blake poem that Eric found in a Henry Nouwen book.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED:

Blue Highways: A Journey Into America by William Least Heat-Moon

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante

Don Quixote by Cervantes

Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

Eat and Run by Scott Jurek and Steve Friedman

Running With the Buffaloes by Chris Lear

Are You My Mother by P.D. Eastman

¡Presente! Latin@ Immigrant Voices in the Struggle for Racial Justice / Voces Inmigranted Latin@s en la Lucha por la Justicia Racial by Cristina Tzintzún (Editor), Arnulfo Manríquez (Editor), Carlos Pérez de Alejo (Editor), Juan González (Foreword)

AUTHORS MENTIONED:

Wendell Berry

Wallace Stegner

Edward Abbey

Louis L'Amour

MORE ABOUT ERIC:

Kuya on Soundcloud

instagram.com/altraeric

Chapter 2: "What We Can Be" - Francisco Dosal

Author, immigrant, and artist Francisco Dosal tells us what books inspired him to write his novel Beyond the Good & Evil. He tells us what it's like to grow up undocumented, what he wants the next generation of immigrants to know, and how the treatment of violence in The Things They Carried shaped his own writing. 

Find more on Francisco here:

https://franciscodosal.com/

https://www.beyondthegoodandevil.com/

http://www.lowkiiboardco.com/

We've Been Approved!

The long, arduous, half-a-day wait is over! We've officially been approved by iTunes! 

Click here to find the podcast in iTunes.

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Although iTunes had to be our first submission, we're going to be working hard to get it on all of the popular podcast apps/services, so let us know which ones you use and we'll try to get to those first.

For now we plan on posting a new episode every other week, with the hopes to turn it into a weekly show at some point in the future (if schedules and children allow). 

Thank you, thank you, thank you, for listening.

Finally, our first episode:

PROLOGUE

What are you reading, Atlanta?

We want to know. You shouldn't keep your stories to yourself.

We believe the question "What are you reading?" is a powerful question. It presents each of us with an opportunity to build community, share experiences, and express the things that matter to us.

On our podcast, What Are You Reading? we talk with interesting Atlantans about books. In free-flowing conversations recorded live at Atlanta Vintage Books, we find out what people from our city are reading and how those readings relate with their lives, work, and communities.

You can join the conversation on Goodreads - Facebook and Twitter are coming soon. And always feel free to e-mail us at whatareyoureadingpodcast@gmail.com.

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