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Two Indigenous authors on the legacy of a shared, painful history

Two Indigenous authors on the legacy of a shared, painful history

FromNPR's Book of the Day


Two Indigenous authors on the legacy of a shared, painful history

FromNPR's Book of the Day

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Length:
19 minutes
Released:
Jul 15, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Today, two books from indigenous authors who make a similar, wry argument: it's a miracle there are any Indigenous people in the Americas alive at all. First, Stephen Graham Jones talks about his horror novel The Only Good Indians, a reworking of an old, hostile phrase attributed to Theodore Roosevelt; plus the literary reasons why he chose to make it a horror story. Then, author Lisa Bird-Wilson talks about how her personal experience influenced her new book, Probably Ruby, a novel that follows the legacy of forced Indigenous adoption and residential schools in Canada.
Released:
Jul 15, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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