This week, author and Drag Queen Story Hour founder Michelle Tea visits and talks to us about her new Press, Dopamine, its forthcoming anthology, Sluts and how she generates so much writing.

This episode of Books Are My People is sponsored by The Year We Danced, A Memoir by Stephen E. Smith

Books Discussed:

Sluts Anthology edited by Michelle Tea

My Child The Algorithm by Hannah Silva

Skunks by Fiona Warnick

Candy Darling : Dreamer Superstar by Candy Darling

Missing White Woman by Kellye Garrett

Luster by Raven Leilani

Other Things Discussed:

MISA: Madeline Island Arts School

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Apartment Guide’s on 7 Guidelines for building a home library featuring some bookshelf advice by yours truly.

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Collage artist and printmaker Sarah Z. Short talks about her creative process, how language figures into her art, the books she used to love to teach and, she recommends some of her favorite reads on episode 124 of Books Are My People.

Books Discussed:
The Hunter by Tana French
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarrow
One Hundred Days by Alice Pung
The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel

Sarah Z. Short Website
Sarah Z. Short on Instagram

Other Things Discussed:
The Women by Kritsin Hannah giveaway closes 5/9/24 US mailing addresses only.

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Read with me series in May is The Book Of Ayn by Lexi Frieman

FSG Poetry hotline 385 3425374 Monday - Friday in April

Instructables Competition

George Orwell’s 1984 audiobook link

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#123 with Jo Piazza The Sicilian Inheritance

This week, I talk food and books with The Sicilian Inheritance author and podcaster extraordinaire, Jo Piazza.

Book Recommended

The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo Piazza

The Secret Book of Flora Lee by Patti Callahan Henry

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

Finlay Donovan is Killing it by Elle Cosimano

Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead by Elle Cosimano

Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun by Elle Cosimano

The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

Breaking and Entering by Don Gilmore

Other things mentioned:

The Sicilian Inheritance Podcast (Watch the trailer)

Under the Influence Podcast

Where to find Jo Piazza:

Substack: Over the Influence @Jopiazza

Instagram: @joypiazzaauthor

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