The Drip

Episode 53 -- Octavia Butler's Parables (Part II): Take Root Among the Stars

Episode 52 -- Octavia Butler's Parables (Part I): The Future is NOW

Episode 51 -- Stuck In Between: Bharati Mukherjee's THE MIDDLE MAN AND OTHER STORIES

Episode 50 -- Defining a "Genre": Fifty Episodes of THE DRIP!

Episode 49 -- The Brutal Beauty of Jesmyn Ward's LET US DESCEND

Episode 48: The Stories We Tell/Told/Are (Never) Told -- Shannon Gibney's THE GIRL I AM, WAS, AND NEVER WILL BE

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 38 -- Eloghosa Osunde’s VAGABONDS!: We Are the Majority!

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

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

The Drip Episode 10 -- Food and Wine and We Feel Fine: Our Dinner With Yaa Gyasi's HOMEGOING

The Drip Episode 9 -- And We Have Another Thing to Say: THE HATE U GIVE, the movie

The Drip Episode 8 -- Roy, Celestial, and Don't Forget About Dre: Tayari Jones' AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE

The Drip Episode 7 -- The Spoilers Sidestep the Sexy Stuff in HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES