Popcorn Book Club

Lovecraft Country (Part 2)

This is a show about books and adaptations and one subject we’ve returned to a couple of times is who gets to tell stories. Today we’re continuing our discussion of Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff. Now, Matt is white, and the adaptation now on HBO counts Misha Green and Jordan Peele among its executive producers. And that is significant because not only are these black creators taking control of a black story, but also Jordan Peele helped to give us the language to be able to talk about this. I mean, Get Out is iconic for a reason.This is part two of our discussion, jump back an episode if you want to start at the beginning.Follow us on Twitter!<a href="https://twitter.com/DanaSchwartzzz">@DanaSchwartzzz</a><a href="https://twitter.com/JenAshleyWright">@JenAshleyWright</a><a href="https://twitter.com/koramadrama">@koramadrama</a><a href="https://twitter.com/melissaFTW">@MelissaFTW</a>and Tien has wisely gotten off Twitter but is on Insta <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hanktina/">@hanktina</a>Next week we’ll move from telling black stories through sci-fi to telling black stories in young adult literature with The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. Learn more about your ad-choices at <a href="https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com">https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

A group of smart, funny friends meet together every week to talk about the book they’re reading—a book that just so happens to be incredibly buzzy and in the zeitgeist because it has an adaptation coming up on the big screen or via streaming. Because when everyone at work is talking about it, we want to be the smug ones who can say we actually read the book first. Hosted by Dana Schwartz, Jennifer Wright, Korama Danquah, Melissa Hunter, and Tien Tran. New episodes every Monday!