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Book Exploder: James McBride - Deacon King Kong
The final episode of Book Exploder is with author James McBride. He was born in New York City and raised in Brooklyn’s Red Hook Houses housing projec…
3 years, 6 months ago
Iron & Wine - Flightless Bird, American Mouth
In 2002, Sam Beam’s first album as Iron & Wine was released on Sub Pop Records. He’d given them a bunch of demos, and rather than have him re-record …
3 years, 6 months ago
Book Exploder: George Saunders - Victory Lap
George Saunders has won the Booker Prize, and he’s the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant. He won the Folio Prize for his collection of short stor…
3 years, 6 months ago
Santigold - Ushers of the New World
Episode 242
Santigold is a singer, songwriter, and producer. She’s put out 4 albums since 2008, and she’s been featured as a collaborator on songs with Jay-Z, Be…
3 years, 6 months ago
Book Exploder: Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng is an American writer and author of three novels. Her second novel, Little Fires Everywhere, was published in 2017 and became a #1 New Yor…
3 years, 7 months ago
King Princess - Let Us Die
Episode 241
King Princess is the project of Mikaela Straus, a singer, songwriter, and producer from Brooklyn. She’s a platinum-selling artist, and she put out he…
3 years, 7 months ago
Book Exploder: Tayari Jones - An American Marriage
Tayari Jones is the author of four novels. She won the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Fine Arts from th…
3 years, 7 months ago
Panic! At the Disco - Viva Las Vengeance
Episode 240
Panic! At the Disco is the Grammy-nominated project of Brendon Urie, who originally started it as a band with his high school friends from Las Vegas …
3 years, 7 months ago
Book Exploder: Carmen Maria Machado - In the Dream House
Carmen Maria Machado is the award-winning author of In the Dream House, a memoir where each chapter has its own vivid style of storytelling. It won t…
3 years, 7 months ago
Björk - Stonemilker
Episode 60
In January 2015, Björk released Vulnicura. She described it as "a complete heartbreak album." And in November, she released Vulnicura Strings, a comp…
3 years, 8 months ago