What We *Actually* Read This Summer

Welcome back to Sylly, a podcast for the curious and critical. We’re your hosts, Mbiye Kasonga and Tembe Denton-Hurst. In episode 18, we’re talking about the books that have actually captured our attention this summer, and what we’re hoping to finish before summer ends. We talk about why we’ve both sworn off reading blurbs and watching trailers, what it means to read outside your own identity without losing sight of whose stories you’re prioritizing, and why Tembe thinks we’ve entered a second Romantic period in fiction.If you love Sylly, tell us! Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. Books We Talked AboutGood Morning Means I Love You by Kendra AllenThe Disappearers by Marlon JamesThe Wedding by Dorothy WestButter by Asako YuzukiHooked by Asako YuzukiKitten by Stacy YuPool House by Mary H.K. ChoiPure Men by Mohamed Mbougar SarrThe Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar SarrTranscription by Ben LernerEast of Eden by John SteinbeckGoliath by Ronald Lee Robertson (mentioned as a companion read to East of Eden)Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfPlaying in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni MorrisonChain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahOn Eating: The Making and Unmaking of My Appetites by Alicia KennedyThe Book of Chuck by Latoya WatkinsThe True Confessions of First Lady Freeman by Deesha PhilyawThe Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis by Devin Thomas O’SheaTake What You Can by Naema CostaSoft Spots by Layla ReneeTranscendent Kingdom by Yaa GyasiKrik? Krak! by Edwidge DanticatPerformances of Spiral Time by Leda Maria MartinsPalo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.