Another Round All Stars: Lit is Lit

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🗓️ 29 November 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week, you’ll hear from past guests - prolific writers & avid readers - answering questions ranging from, “When was the first time you saw yourself represented in literature?” to “Why are so many books about white boys and their dogs?" You'll hear from Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Chirlane McCray, Jacqueline Woodson, Saeed Jones, Jeff Chang, and more. #protip: this is a great episode to suggest to a friend who's new to the show! Follow Roxane Gay at @rgay. Follow Ta-Nehisi Coates at @tanehisicoates. Follow Chirlane McCray at @NYCFirstLady. Follow Jacqueline Woodson at @JackieWoodson. Follow Saeed Jones at @theferocity. Follow Jeff Chang at @zentronix. Follow Lisa Lucas @likaluca. Follow Brit Bennett at @britrbennett. Follow Brandy Colbert at @brandycolbert. Follow Glory Edim at @wellreadblkgirl. Find Another Round merch at shop.buzzfeed.com. Subscribe to the Another Round newsletter at buzzfeed.com/anotherround/newsletter.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, it's Tracy and you are listening to another round with Heaven and Tracy and guess what?
0:05.2	You get another All Stars episode!
0:08.4	Yay!
0:09.3	Whip, whip, whip, whip! Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!
0:12.1	Today's All Start episode is all about books.
0:16.1	Books, books, books.
0:17.9	Read and read and read and reading. Read and it's fun.
0:20.3	I actually read more. I don't read a lot.
0:23.1	You know, today, I said to myself that the only New Year's resolution I'm gonna make is to read more.
0:29.0	But as I think about it, I think that was my resolution last year.
0:32.5	So maybe it shouldn't be my resolution again this year. I don't know.
0:39.5	So today we're gonna highlight some of the best conversations that we have had so far about reading and writing.
0:44.0	And I'm so excited because as I said earlier, it's not something that I do.
0:47.7	Like I should enlistment to people who actually read and even more listen to people who write really make me excited about reading.
0:53.7	So maybe this will be the thing that will make my New Year's resolution actually stick in 2017.
0:59.3	We got lots and lots of sage advice from a lot of talented people in some of your favorite favorite writers, including,
1:06.3	but not limited to Miss Roxane Gay, Tynos Hasse Coates, the first lady of NYC Miss Sherlay McCray, just to name a few.
1:14.3	So first up, we're gonna revisit the struggle that brown people and girls know all too well growing up.
1:18.9	And that is reading stories exclusively about white boys and their dogs.
1:24.0	We had our writer and friend and my neighbor, Fun Fact, she lives upstairs in my very own building, Ashley C Ford,
1:30.5	and the amazing and talented and super, super smart 11 year old Marley Diaz of 1000 Black Girl Books on the show.
1:38.5	And if you are not aware, 1000 Black Girl Books is a campaign that donates books with Black Girl characters to schools because, as we said earlier,
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