In this, our 45th episode, the Spoilers are back with what they thought would be a frolicking, early summer show about Baxter, a Black Canadian aspiring dentist who works as a sleeping car porter on a cross-continent train in the late 1920s (surprise! it took a while to edit!). Paced like a marathoner in a Dodge Challenger, this novel is relentless in its depiction of racialized labor in a very close environment. Not all of us loved this book, but that always makes for an interesting conversation -- and you will get nothing less here, even though you had to wait for three months. Anticipation makes things even better they say . . .
Episode 28 -- Pass the Bone Salt, Please: Cherie Dimaline's EMPIRE OF WILD
Episode 27 -- Everybody Loves Radha: THE 40 YEAR-OLD VERSION
Episode 26 -- To Hell With THE HELP: An Unbridled Celebration of Barbara Neely's BLANCHE ON THE LAM
Episode 25 -- A Black, Black, Black Episode: John Lewis's MARCH, Volumes 1,2, & 3
Episode 24 -- "No more backward steps": Elizabeth Acevedo's THE POET X
Episode 23 -- Always Taking; Always Giving: Jewelle Gomez's THE GILDA STORIES
Episode 22 -- What We Take With Us: Nnedi Okorafor's BINTI
Episode 21 -- A Marvelous Reality: Wayetu Moore's SHE WOULD BE KING
Episode 20 -- The Spoilers Set It Off With QUEEN AND SLIM and ATLANTICS (Quarantine Edition)
Driplet #3 -- Claudia Rankin's THE WHITE CARD at Penumbra Theatre
Episode 19 -- "Who the heck is Jack!?!": Colson Whitehead's THE NICKEL BOYS
Episode 18 -- Treacherous Feet, Bubble Tea, and PERFECT STRANGERS: Gene Yang's AMERICAN BORN CHINESE
Episode 17 -- A Little Pink House for You and Me: Relationships and Borderlands in Oscar Casares' WHERE WE COME FROM
Episode 16 -- "You can shoot me now": White Saviors and the Art of Race in Claudia Rankine's THE WHITE CARD
Episode 15 -- Pulsing, Possible Dreams: Danez Smith's DON'T CALL US DEAD
Episode 14 -- "Damn these Eggs!": Lorraine Hansberry's A RAISIN IN THE SUN
Driplet #2 -- Tunnel Vision: Jordan Peele's US
Episode 13 - Movin' on Up: Michelle Obama's BECOMING
Episode 12 -- What About Tish?: Barry Jenkins' IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
The Drip Episode 11 -- Be Loving This Book: Kiese Laymon's HEAVY
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