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Glory Edim, creator of the coolest book club on the Internet, joins Frank and Gwen to discuss book clubs and beyond! They talk about Well-Read Black Girl, empowered storytelling, the potentials and pitfalls of making book recommendations, Black writers in the diaspora and the canon... and focusing on the things that unite us all. Happy new year, friends! 

Guest Star: Glory Edim 

Her new anthology: Well-Read Black Birl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

Glory on Instagram and Twitter, and also her book club (both in person and online) and the club's reading list

Becoming by Michelle Obama

New Women Space in Williamsburg

More recommendations:

• The World According to Fannie Davis by Bridgett M. Davis
• JSTOR, which gets librarians very worked up
• Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets by Feminista Jones
• Sassafrass, Cypress, & Indigo by Ntozake Shange
• Roma
• "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"

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