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Are you interested in getting back into reading? Are you interested in increasing your love of reading? Reading YA and Middle Grade fiction is a great way to achieve either goal! Join me (starting in September) for a Middle Grade/YA Fiction book club. Each month we will read two books (one Middle Grade, one YA) from the NY Times current Best Seller List. We will hold our book club discussion via a Fanfare post on the last day of the month (I will ask the mods if these posts can veer into chat territory as well). Caveats and schedule inside! [more inside]
posted by CMcG on Aug 6, 2024 - 4 comments

Jenna and Wesley are back for Season 3! This week, they look at the movie “Proud Mary” as a jumping-off point for the cultural moment that black women are having. The discussion includes a brief history of black women in movies and television, from Hattie McDaniel to Dorothy Dandridge to Whoopi Goldberg to Halle Berry. Then Wesley and Jenna consider what all this means for Oprah’s theoretical presidential run. [more inside]
posted by roger ackroyd on Jan 18, 2018 - 0 comments

Rukmini Callimachi covers Islamic terrorism for the New York Times, and she seems to have access that other reporters just don't have. Part of the way she gets that access is by communicating with Islamic extremists online. She talks to PJ about how she communicates with her sources. Also, a new segment called "Super Tech Support." In this installment, Alex tries to figure out why it's so f@#*ing hard to cancel a Handy subscription.
posted by radioamy on Jul 23, 2015 - 9 comments