Episode Eighteen: Saeed Jones

In This Episode:

Author, essayist, poet, and BuzzFeed Literary Editor Saeed Jones drops into the Damn Library to talk about his beautiful poetry collection Prelude to Bruise, Claudia Rankine’s incendiary Citizen: An American Lyric, and the power of art to change the world.

Other highlights:
* Twitter, ooh boy
* Whiskey
* Summer is here!

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The Ep. 18 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE’S BOOKS: PRELUDE TO BRUISE BY SAEED JONES & CITIZEN: AN AMERICAN LYRIC BY CLAUDIA RANKINE

WHAT’D YOU BUY?

NOTHING, because it was BEA-week. We got so many books, you guys.

Also Mentioned:

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion (includes “Goodbye to All That”)
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Drew: Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
Christopher: The Folded Clock by Heidi Julavits
Saeed: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara