Jan 26, 2022
This is the last episode of the Bedrosian Bookclub in this incarnation, it's been a blast.
We discuss the importance of The 1619 Project, the book, the project, and it's impact on our political discourse. Why should we pay attention to history, how does the historical narrative of a country affect the way we face the...
Dec 16, 2021
Three votes for Carribean Fragoza’s Eat the Mouth that Feeds You to be something every high school senior is exposed to. This debut collection of short stories is genius, this is late 20th early 21st century Southern California. This is Chicanx, this is Latinx, this is SoCal, this is women, this is body horror, magic...
Nov 22, 2021
Now, in the tail end of 2021, discourse about restorative justice and public safety lack imagination. We tend to “do what we’ve always done.”
NYU Historian Nicole Eustace brings us the story of the search for justice following the 1722 murder of a Native American man at the hands of two White men. Covered With...
Oct 22, 2021
Ostensibly, House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, is about a young man who finds a manuscript in a dead man’s apartment. This experimental novel, released in 2000, takes a cinematic approach to the novel – creating a novel experience in time and space.
The dead man, Zampano, was an elderly blind man writing...
Oct 8, 2021
In Not
a Nation of Immigrants, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz strives to look at
the ever morphing population of the United States, to uncover the
why and how of the mythology that pervades political discourse on
American history.
In part, Dunbar-Ortiz recognizes that the looming problems of climate change, polarization, and...