EPISODE · Oct 23, 2024 · 26 MIN
A Scholar Who Loves Country Music
from Blind Date With a Book · host Kristen Evans, Rachel Mans McKenny and Elena Nicolaou
We're setting up Sarah Dees, a professor of religious history and cultures who has researched and published widely on appropriation of Native American medicine and art. She also is deeply interested, personally and academically, in Dolly Parton. She is late to watching Ted Lasso but is super into its portrayal of masculinity. Her dream vaca is Scandinavia, and while she’s technically Sagittarius, her birthday is right on the edge and she identifies more with Capricorns. She recently read and loved Detransition, Baby and the Weaver and the Witch Queen. Winning bookstore: Scuppernong Books in Greensboro, NC Books: The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall She Come By It Natural by Sarah Smarsh Exhibit by RO Kwon The Mutual Friend by Carter Bays White Magic by Elissa Washuta Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
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We're setting up Sarah Dees, a professor of religious history and cultures who has researched and published widely on appropriation of Native American medicine and art. She also is deeply interested, personally and academically, in Dolly Parton. She is late to watching Ted Lasso but is super into its portrayal of masculinity. Her dream vaca is Scandinavia, and while she’s technically Sagittarius, her birthday is right on the edge and she identifies more with Capricorns. She recently read and loved Detransition, Baby and the Weaver and the Witch Queen. Winning bookstore: Scuppernong Books in Greensboro, NC Books: The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall She Come By It Natural by Sarah Smarsh Exhibit by RO Kwon The Mutual Friend by Carter Bays White Magic by Elissa Washuta Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
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