Hosted by Anna Nguyen · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 67 episodes
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Anna Nguyen hosts Critical Literary Consumption, a arts show with 67 episodes published.
Saeed Jones traces his poetic roots through his sense of place and placemaking, identity, education, and his experiences writing in multiple genres. Considering how freeing the poetic form can be, Jones talks about the f
In discussing her books, Fresh Banana Leaves and Growing Papaya Plants , Indigenous scientist Dr. Jessica Hernandez talks about turning her attention from a non-native but displaced relative (banana trees) to a native pl
A character who is dissatisfied in her own marriage will likely struggle to be a mother, says Thammika Songkaeo. Discussing her debut novel, Stamford Hospital, Thammika explores the complexity of womanhood, intimacy and
Kaila Yu's Fetishized: A Reckoning With Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty is written as memoir-in-essays that serves as media and cultural analysis. We discussed how she situated her personal experiences as part of her
Tanya Guerrero shares how her love of animals and her volunteer experiences with Trap/Neuter/Return (TNR) shaped her first adult novel, Cat’s People . We discussed the popular trend of cat-centered novels and the porous
Dr. Karen Throsby, author of Sugar Rush: Science, politics and the demonisation of fatness , discusses how the public and scientific framings of sugar and health are focused on the nutritional gaze of a single nutrient w
Dr. Matthieu Chapman previews his forthcoming book, Shakespeare and Antiblack World-making , in which reflects on the fields of Pre-Modern Critical Race Studies and Early Modern Studies. He discusses why he portrays Shak
Calling Slow Noodles her one story, Chantha Nguon recounts being hesitant to write about her life until her collaborator, Kim Green, suggested that she write a recipe book. When she began reviving these food-related memo
Following Chemistry and Joan Is Okay , Weike Wang again reflects on labor, home, place, and identity in Rental House , a novel that follows an interracial couples’ two vacations. She describes how Keru and Nate’s marriag
Brandon Shimoda discusses his pursuit of similar questions during his writing and research for his two longer books, The Grave on the Wall and The Afterlife is Letting Go , which are about Japanese American history, inca
Chen Chen talks about genre, creative writing pedagogy, race, and politics as he reflects on his two full-length poetry collections, When I Grow Up I Want To Be A List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions) and Your Eme
To celebrate Halloween and the season of extremes, K-Ming Chang returns to discuss Organ Meats , which is the final story in her mythic triptych (or what she calls the “fecal trio”). She extends her thoughts on experimen
Aditi Machado previews her upcoming poetry collection, Material Witness (Nightboat Books), and reflects on the concept and act of "witnessing". Witnessing then makes its poetic way into her questions of human/non-human r
Morgan Talty shares his thoughts on this peculiar thing called genre and his experiences writing short stories ( Night of the Living Rez ) and a novel (his debut, Fire Exit ). We talk about his reasons for writing from t
My diaCritics book review focused and critiqued this ever recurring topic of nostalgia in diasporic memoirs, and Lieu shares her own thoughts on critical nostalgia, its connection to the tragedy of the living, and her de
To think about sex work differently, Dr. Juana María Rodríguez (University of California, Berkeley) argues that we too will need to think about sex differently. Specifically, her project argues against merely ending the
Erica N. Cardwell reflects on writing Wrong Is Not My Name: Notes on (Black) Art , a possible anti-memoir that features essays on the importance of art criticism, visuality, grief, and radical Black imagination. Because
Dr. Matthieu Chapman discusses his experiences with genre shift from academic writing to his beautiful hybrid memoir, Shattered: Fragments of a Black Life . He shares his thoughts on craft, genre, “the canon” in Early Mo
At the beginning of the new year, I talked to Athena Dixon about the release of her latest book, The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays . She shares how the book came to be and how she interrogated the concept of lonel
In Nishanth Injam's stunning debut collection, The Best Possible Experience , examines the social ails of life abroad as an adult immigrant. In the episode, Nishanth discusses how fragments and contours of his personal l
Saeed Jones
poet and cultural critic
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Jessica Hernandez
postdoctoral research fellow at University of Washington Bothell; Climate Justice Policy Strategist at the International Mayan League; Environmental Justice Representative of the City of Seattle Commission of Urban Forestry · El Paso Animal Services
1 appearance on this show
Kaila Yu
Author of Fetishized: A Reckoning With Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty, and Nuanced Writer of Historical and Contemporary Pop Culture, Misogyny, & Anti-Asian Racist Othering
1 appearance on this show
K-Ming Chang
2 appearances on this show
Susan Lieu
author of The Manicurist's Daughter
1 appearance on this show
Athena Dixon
Author of The Loneliness Files
1 appearance on this show
Victor Ray
Dr.
1 appearance on this show
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
author of The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie · The Stacks Book Club
1 appearance on this show
Deesha Philyaw
Author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
1 appearance on this show
Kiese Laymon
1 appearance on this show
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