Episodes on Novels and Novelists

Here's a roundup of Remarkable Reception podcast episodes focusing on novels and novelists. 

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 

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

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

• Understanding Octavia Butler – Ebony Lumumba

• Reading Jesmyn Ward at Parchman – 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

• The prolific and creative work of Colson Whitehead – Howard Rambsy II

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

• Ann Petry's The Street –  Angel C. Dye

• Frank Yerby – Valerie Matthews

• 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

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

• Paul Beatty and Vocabulary – Howard Rambsy II

• Colson Whitehead and Vocabulary – Howard Rambsy II

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's most far-reaching honor – Jewell Humphrey

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

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

Toni Morrison

• The Sisterhood, 1977 photograph – Courtney Thorsson

• Toni Morrison's Beloved – Courtney Thorsson

• Toni Morrison and Vocabulary – Howard Rambsy II

• Toni Morrison and the Seven Days – Abbey Morgan

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

• 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 as Voice Actor – Howard Rambsy II

• An unforgettable scene from Sula – Cindy Reed

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