In this episode, the Spoilers can't stop gushing about Eloghosa Osunde's new novel, VAGABONDS! Structured like a spiritual text that challenges the orthodoxy and self-righteousness of those who would deny freedom and life to those on the margins of Nigerian society, this novel expertly constructs a narrative of self-salvation, told from the perspective of the vagabonds of Lagos. In reading this novel the Spoilers realized an important truth: the marginalized are the majority, and when the revolution comes, when the end times arrive -- in is the vagabonds who are gonna party together in love! Check out our emotional show on this unforgettable novel.
Episode 47 -- A Plot-Full of BLACK CAKE: Charmaine Wilkerson Serves It Up Thick
Episode 46 --It May Be a Man’s World, But Esi’s Got a Car: Ama Ata Aidoo’s CHANGES
Episode 45 -- Trains, Pains, and Barnacles: Suzette Mayr’s THE SLEEPING CAR PORTER
Driplet #4 -- ”It Must Be the Gas”: A Journey Inside Todd’s Broken Brain
Episode 44 -- Profound Sentences: James Baldwin’s GIOVANNI’S ROOM
Episode 43 -- Hold the Pum Pum Jokes: Learning to Love Leone Ross’s POPISHO
Episode 42 -- A Touch of Grey: Attica Locke’s THE CUTTING SEASON
Episode 41 -- Don’t Say It: Language, Teaching, and Community
Episode 40 -- Easy Does It: Walter Mosley’s DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS
Episode 39 -- Apparently, We Love Her: Toni Morrison’s SULA
Episode 37 -- Around the World, Around the Corner: Discombobulated Migrations in Namrata Poddar’s BORDER LESS
Episode 36 -- Ghostly Reverberations: Louise Erdrich’s THE SENTENCE
Episode 35 -- Genre, Critique, and Relaxing Hair Grease: Zakiya Dalila Harris’ THE OTHER BLACK GIRL
Episode 34 -- Seams of Subjection: Afia Atakora’s CONJURE WOMEN
Episode 33 -- No More Crumbs: Deesha Philyaw's THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES
Episode 32 --A Sister Souljah Seminar, or The Coldest Episode Ever
Episode 31 -- Chaste Heat and Sweet Potato Pie: Beverly Jenkins' JOSEPHINE
Episode 30 -- There is a Balm: Robert Jones Jr.'s THE PROPHETS
Episode 29 -- Black and White and Misread All Over: Nella Larsen's PASSING
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