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Oct 14, 2026
Katie MarquetteHOST
I will just read a little bit of his official biography here so you can familiarize yourself with him a little more.
Katie MarquetteHOST
Um, he's the author of six poetry collections, including the American Book Award-winning Interrogations at Noon and most recently, Meet Me at the Lighthouse.
Katie MarquetteHOST
He is known for championing rhyme, meter, narrative, and the musical traditions of poetry.
Katie MarquetteHOST
His essay collection, Can Poetry Matter?, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and he has edited more than two dozen literary anthologies, as well as written libretti and collaborated with composers a- across classical, jazz, and rock music.
Chris SimonHOST
His screenwriting credits on The Fall of the House of Usher by Netflix and Manhunt on Apple.
Chris SimonHOST
Johnson is the recipient of the American Book Award, the United States Artist James Baldwin Fellowship, the Hurston Wright Legacy Award, the John dos Passos Prize for Literature, and the American Book Award.
Chris SimonHOST
That is legit, [laughs] I have to say.
David HydeHOST
Yeah.
Brad ListiHOST
It was the official September pick of The Other People Book Club.
Brad ListiHOST
Tananarive Due is an American Book Award and NAACP Image Award-winning author.
Brad ListiHOST
She was an executive producer on Horror Noire, A History of Black Horror for Shudder.
Brad ListiHOST
She teaches Afrofuturism and Black horror at UCLA.
speaker_4HOST
Yes.
speaker_4HOST
When discussing The Best We Could Do, an illustrated memoir by Thi Bui, which won the American Book Award in 2018 and was chosen for the NEA's Big Read, a truly astonishing detail is revealed.
speaker_3HOST
Okay, I'm listening.
speaker_4HOST
Thi Bui, the creator of this masterful, award-winning, historically and autobiographically profound graphic novel, had never illustrated a comic in her life before creating that book.
speaker_3HOST
Wait, really? She had never drawn a comic before creating an American Book Award-winning graphic novel?
speaker_4HOST
Never.
speaker_4HOST
It boggles the mind that she could become so adept and produce something so beautiful from such humble beginnings simply because she set out to chronicle her family's history.
Mary Louise SchumacherHOST
Her first book, The Rise, explored the generative force of failure.
Mary Louise SchumacherHOST
The Unseen Truth, which won an American Book Award, examines the visual fictions that helped shape racist ideas in the United States.
Mary Louise SchumacherHOST
[camera clicking] And her landmark Vision and Justice Initiative began as a special issue of Aperture magazine, and grew into a Harvard course, a civic curriculum, a convening, and an ongoing community and platform devoted to understanding the foundational role of culture in our democracy.
Mary Louise SchumacherHOST
In our conversation, we talk about her new expansive project, asking the question: What if Emmett Till lived? The book and exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago imagines a future that Till was denied, and proposes a new kind of creative monument.
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Sarah LewisGUEST
Yes, exactly.
Mary Louise SchumacherHOST
[laughs]
Sarah LewisGUEST
And so she held me to it, and you know, and celebrated when it won the American Book Award and all those things.
Sarah LewisGUEST
But, um-
Corey BrettschneiderHOST
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Corey BrettschneiderHOST
And John, I've gotta say, before turning it back to you, congratulations on the American Book Award, which you received out in California-
John FugelsangHOST
Thank you, sir
Corey BrettschneiderHOST
... uh, for your brilliant book, Separation of Church and Hate, being recognized.
Dave AnthonyHOST
He's won 10 Grammy Awards, and in 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Carlos as one of the top guitarists of all time.
Dave AnthonyHOST
Joining us to tell his story is Ashley Kahn, a Grammy-winning American music historian, author, professor, and producer who co-wrote Carlos Santana's autobiography, The Universal Tone, bringing my story to life, which won the prestigious American Book Award.
Dave AnthonyHOST
Ashley teaches at New York University's Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music and is a producer of the 2023 documentary on Carlos Santana that is available on many streaming platforms.
Dave AnthonyHOST
Ashley has just released Days of Miracle and Wonder, Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumphs of Simon's seminal album, Graceland.
Lily SlomanHOST
Marlon James is the Booker Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of A Brief History of Selling Ki- Seven Killings, the bestselling and National Book Award finalist, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, and the bestselling Moon Witch, Spider King, The Book of Night Women, and John Crow's Devil.
Lily SlomanHOST
James's novels have also won the American Book Award, the Dayton Literary Prize, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, and have been finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the NAACP Image Award.
Lily SlomanHOST
In 2019, Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Lily SlomanHOST
Born in Jamaica, James lives in New York City.
Jodi HamiltonHOST
How was
John FugelsangGUEST
the book award trip? The book was the recipient of the American Book Award, which was a tremendous, huge honor.
John FugelsangGUEST
They normally don't give neurotic, white, heterosexual male comedians this award.
John FugelsangGUEST
So I was...
John FugelsangHOST
We look forward to your calls.
John FugelsangHOST
I want to thank everybody who came out this weekend in Berkeley, California for the American Book Awards.
John FugelsangHOST
Whoa.
John FugelsangHOST
What an experience.
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