Episodes (by topics) of Remarkable Receptions

Here's a list of the podcast episodes (by topics) for Remarkable Receptions.

The episodes are available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Buzzsprout,  PlayerFM, and Podcast Republic.

[Related: Episodes of Remarkable Receptions]

Toni Morrison 

• Toni Morrison's Beloved – Courtney Thorsson

• Toni Morrison and Vocabulary – Howard Rambsy II

• Toni Morrison and the Seven Days – Abbey Morgan

• Black cultural mythology and Song of Solomon – Christel Temple 

• The Evolving Reception of The Bluest Eye – Richard Schur

• The Bluest Eye doesn’t go down easy –  Kathryn Warren

• Toni Morrison's statement about writing & revision – Howard Rambsy II

Adaptations of novels 

• Ernest Gaines and film – Keith Clark

• The Color Purple film adaptation – Nicole Dixon

• The Color Purple musical adaptation – Carmin Wong

• Oprah Winfrey, Film, and African American literature – Nicole Dixon

• Waiting to Exhale film adaptation – Nicole Dixon

• August Wilson – Nicole Dixon

• African American literature, film adaptations, and Barry Jenkins – Nicole Dixon

• Black Diaspora and Casting Possibilities – Nicole Dixon

Groups of novels and novelists 

• The Sisterhood, 1977 photograph – Courtney Thorsson

• African American Novels and the 1990s  – Richard Schur 

• Black Women Writers courses –  Howard Rambsy II

• Read black novels, find Harriet Jacobs’s legacy – Elizabeth Cali 

• Black Men Novelists and Intellectual Traditions – Howard Rambsy II

Comic books

• Graphic Novel--Red, White & Black – Stephyn Phillips

• Static Shock – Stephyn Phillips 

• Green Lantern (John Stewart) – Stephyn Phillips

• Storm – Stephyn Phillips

• Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Midnight Angels –  Howard Rambsy II

• Blade, Vampire Hunter  – Stephyn Phillips

• 1970s Black Superheroes – Stephyn Phillips

• Jonathan Majors the Conqueror – Terrance Wellmaker 

• From Verses to Visuals on Jack Johnson – Howard Rambsy II

Special topics

• The Largest Vocabulary in African American Literature – Howard Rambsy II 

• Paul Beatty and Vocabulary – Howard Rambsy II

• Colson Whitehead and Vocabulary – Howard Rambsy II

• The Bench by the Road Project – Howard Rambsy II

• The 50th episode of Remarkable Receptions – Howard Rambsy II

• HBW's Novel Collection –  Howard Rambsy II

Literature courses and readers 

• How Students Connect to Ralph Ellison's "Battle Royal" – Jennifer Colatosti

• African American literature survey courses – Elizabeth Cali and Howard Rambsy II

• Reading Jesmyn Ward at Parchman – Ebony Lumumba

• Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy – Emily VanDette 

• Black Writers & Afro-Mississippians – C. Liegh McInnis

Publishing History 

• 3 Novels, 3 Years: Pauline Hopkins – Elizabeth Cali

• The Story of Battle Royal – Kenton Rambsy

• The Mixed Results of Sutton Griggs's debut – John Gruesser

• Trudier Harris’s prolific scholarship on African American Novels – Howard Rambsy II

Novels and authors

• Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone – Richard Schur

• Alice Walker’s The Color Purple – Kathy Lou Schultz

• Angie Thomas and Literary Activism – Ebony Lumumba 

• Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad – Howard Rambsy II and Elizabeth Cali

• One of the smartest characters in African American fiction – Howard Rambsy II

• Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing – Ebony Lumumba

• Marc Olden, a prolific, largely unknown novelist – Howard Rambsy II

• Octavia Butler and Wikipedia – Howard Rambsy II and Kenton Rambsy

• Paul Beatty and the Booker Prize – Cameron Leader-Picone

• Pauline Hopkins’s Hagar's Daughter – Alisha Knight

• Richard Wright's infamous review – Howard Rambsy II

• Richard Wright's Native Son – Joseph G. Ramsey

• Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929) –  Donavan Ramon

• Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man – Laura Vrana 

• Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale – Aneeka Ayanna Henderson 

• Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) – Shanna Benjamin

• Wayetu Moore’s She Would Be King –  by Ebony Lumumba