Sometimes, when you're a tiny media outlet with a biweekly podcast, several interview requests fall through and you're left with... three microphones and an hour to fill.
And nobody can accuse us of not filling it!
Inspired by a dictionary's tweet, Jay, Em, and Keith gathered for the debut installment of BookCast, where we go 'round the horn to talk aboutāyou guessed itāthose papery, flippable lil devices we love.
But first! Here are the stories we gabbed about during What I Learned In Racket...
- āCall It the Clown Carā: An Oral History of Minneapolisās 35-Candidate 2013 Mayoral Election
- āOnly Ugly Guysā Is More Beautiful Than Youād Expect & Black Scholars, Trans Ancestors, and Video Games: āI Promise to Burn Foreverā Challenges Visitors to Remember
And here are the books we plugged...
- Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
- Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights by Samuel G. Freedman
- In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired Moby Dick by Nathaniel Philbrick
- The Book of Love by Kelly Link
- Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
- The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism by Adam Nagourney
- Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
- Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
- It by Stephen King
This episode ofĀ RacketCastĀ is brought to you by TPT's You Are Here: Wicked Minnehaha:
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