Glory Invites You to the Literary Kickback

Join Glory Edim, host of Well-Read Black Girl with Glory Edim, as she speaks with some of the most impactful and interesting thinkers, makers, and authors of color today.

These intimate conversations with Anita Hill, Zeba Blay, Min Jin Lee, Tarana Burke, and more, allow listeners to peek behind the page and hear how these writers found their voices, honed their crafts, navigated publishing, and showed up in the world. Stay tuned for Well-Read Black Girl, coming February 1, 2022!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Pushkin, Okay, is it going Okay, We're ready. I'm ready.
That's sound okay, all right? Hi, Oh you sound great,
it's clear. Hi. I'm Glory Adam and I love books,
so yeah, I definitely I love, love, love reading as

(00:37):
a child, which is why in twenty fifteen, I started
the Well Read Black Girl book Club because there was
appeared in life whenever I'm telling Morrison's Bookay, it was
like it was an assignment for me. For years, we've
come together to celebrate the work of female them and
non binary writers of color. Oh my gosh, fell Hooks.

(00:59):
She was so clear about the brilliance of the literature
creative by black women. And now on the Well Read
Black Girl Podcast, I'm connecting readers everywhere with the most
impactful and interesting writers, thinkers, and makers. Today we'll have intimate,

(01:20):
in depth conversations on the power of the written word
and explore what it means to be well read. Oh,
what it means everything. I take pride in being well read.
You'll hear from authors like men Jin Lee on her
journey to writing the books we love to read. So
I would go to work seven days a week, and

(01:41):
I thought I can't do this anymore. Yeah, so I
quit in nineteen nineties, I believe, and then I published
in two thousand and seven, which means it took twelve
years to publish a book an author and activist. To
Rona Burke, a lot of amazing things have happened to
me since Me Too a viral, But the only thing

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that has happened to me that was actually something that
I was was a goal in my life, was to
write You'll hear for Jaqueline Woodson. It keeps me sane,
and writing really does, and it keeps me feeling like
I have some control over what happens in the world,
whether or not I do or not, and authors like

(02:24):
Zeba Blay anytime that I write, I'm trying to be honest.
I'm not even trying to be good. I'm just trying
to be honest with myself and get life lessons from
author an icon Anita Hill. I've heard from people who
said that in nineteen ninety one, they listen to the
hearings and then they understood their own experience. That's better,

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and that's what I think we all, as a writer want. Yes,
you'll even get to know your favorite writers beyond the page. Oh,
we're gonna do rapid fire questions. Okay, So between beloved
the book or beloved the film? Which was better? Definitely
the book. Are you a coffee or tea person? Coffee anti?

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What's your son? I am all virgo everything. Name a
movie that never gets old that you can watch over
and over and over and over again. Probably Jumanji. If
you were a superhero, what would your superpower be? Oh,
I have thought about that. My superpower would be every

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time that I've met someone that I would be able
to glimpse their past. Oh that's a good one. Kinship
community support. You'll find all of this and more on
my new weekly show. Listen to Well Read black Girl,
coming February first. Wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe

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I love that.