The Most Dangerous Thing in America: Recent Episodes
Bobby Wilson
The most dangerous thing in America is a n***a with a library card. I don't live in America and I don't have a library card, but that don't change a thing. This is a podcast about books written by Black authors reviewed by a Black author. Enjoy.
This week on the podcast I read "The Come Up: an Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop" by Jonathon Abrams. This is part one of a three-part podcast. After that we'll be reading another hip-hop book, Justin Tinsley's "It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him." It's Christmastime in Hollis, Queens and we're serving up hip-hop podcasts!
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This week on the podcast I read a fantasy novel for the first time in a long time, "Son of the Storm" by Suyi Davies Okungbowa. In two weeks “The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop” by Jonathon Abrams.
Happy Turkey Day!
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This week on the podcast I read Toni Morrison’s third to last novel “A Mercy.” In two weeks “Son of the Storm.”
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This week on the podcast I read the allegorical “Invisible Things” by Mat Johnson.
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This week on the podcast I read the Black sci-fi anthology “Cyberfunk!” by many authors including John Jennings, Napoleon Wells, Milton J. Davis, Jarla Tangh, T.C. Morgan and Donovan Hall. Keep reading!
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This week on the podcast I finished "A History of Zimbabwe" by Professor Alois Mlambo. These are the final two chapters plus the coda. I came to this book through some data science work, so if you want to read more about it check the links below.
About Life Expectancy:
https://medium.com/@bobbywwilsonjr/the-curious-case-of-zimbabwe-1a818c9f8602
About "A History of Zimbabwe" and land:
https://medium.com/@bobbywwilsonjr/the-curious-case-of-zimbabwe-part-ii-91df7a681cf2?postPublishedType=initial
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This week on the podcast I read "A History of Zimbabwe" by Professor Alois Mlambo (Chapters 5 and 6). I came to this book through some data science work, so if you want to read more about it check the links below.
About Life Expectancy:
https://medium.com/@bobbywwilsonjr/the-curious-case-of-zimbabwe-1a818c9f8602
About "A History of Zimbabwe" and land:
https://medium.com/@bobbywwilsonjr/the-curious-case-of-zimbabwe-part-ii-91df7a681cf2?postPublishedType=initial
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This week on the podcast I read "A History of Zimbabwe" by Professor Alois Mlambo. I came to this book through some data science work, so if you want to read more about it check the links below.
About Life Expectancy:
https://medium.com/@bobbywwilsonjr/the-curious-case-of-zimbabwe-1a818c9f8602
About "A History of Zimbabwe" and land:
https://medium.com/@bobbywwilsonjr/the-curious-case-of-zimbabwe-part-ii-91df7a681cf2?postPublishedType=initial
Subscribe to the podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-most-dangerous-thing-in-america/id1551126578
https://open.spotify.com/show/5xky9xGXgdh0bTcUx1yNEf?si=c1b3769405b64615
https://soundcloud.com/bobby-wilson-588095918
Music from TheKeepRunning:
https://soundcloud.com/user-861419594
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This week on the podcast chapter 6 from Andre Brock Jr.'s "Distributed Blackness", diving into the (Black technocultural) matrix.
Some Data Science stuff I'm doing:
https://medium.com/@bobbywwilsonjr/the-curious-case-of-zimbabwe-1a818c9f8602
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This week on the podcast chapters 4 & 5 from Andre Brock Jr.'s "Distributed Blackness", all about ratchetry and respectability.
Link to Cathy Cohen's Ryerson lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqd5zDAHcp0
Link to Shaq calling himself the Black Steph Curry (not exact link I mentioned in the episode but close enough):
https://www.thescore.com/news/1320228
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We back! This week on the podcast I read Distributed Blackness Chapter 3, Black Twitter. Some thoughts, some musings, the usual.
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This week on the podcast I (finally!) read Distributed Blackness...at least the first two chapters. Next 2 chapters coming next week.
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This week on the podcast...another memoir...I didn't expect it either, but it's D. Watkins's "The Cook Up."
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This week on the podcast I did the reading club talk at the back of Kendra James's memoir "Admissions." For a more straightforward review go here:
https://medium.com/@bobbywwilsonjr/admissions-877904242040
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This week on the podcast I discuss Veronica Henry's fantasy/detective/crime novel "The Quarter Storm."
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This week on the podcast Paula Lennon's "Murder in Montego Bay", a detective novel set in Jamaica.
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This week on the podcast I read Nelson George's "Hip Hop America" originally published in 1998 (with a new chapter in 2004). Loved it because I love hip hop. A few videos discussed in the podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az0_O-nIWU0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kg5gdJxZHk
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This week on the podcast Cadwell Turnbull's amazing, modern, and timeless "No Gods, No Monsters."
You can read a review of the novel here:
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This week on the podcast Alice Walker’s immense, monumental “The Color Purple.” A classic.
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This week on the podcast Tyora Moody's "Deep Fried Trouble."
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This week on the podcast I read DuVay Knox's "The Pussy Detective" (link to buy at Clash Books website below). It put me in the mind of Slick Rick's "Indian Girl (An Adult Story)", Ishamel Reed, and "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Keep Reading.
Order the book here:
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Slick Rick:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1845asfVXk
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This week on the podcast Marlon James's big, bad (good bad, obviously) "Moon Witch, Spider King." A written review is here: https://medium.com/@bobbywwilsonjr/moon-witch-spider-king-b5a7039c5308
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This week on the podcast we got an indie! "Quint" by Dionne Iriving put out by 7.13 Books out of Brooklyn.
To read my review of the novel:
https://medium.com/@bobbywwilsonjr/quint-26e28aa4906c
Next week we're doing "Moon Witch, Spider King" by Marlon James and then "The Pussy Detective" by Duvay Knox the week after that.
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This week on the podcast I read the amazing, the iconic, the classic novel "Half of a Yellow Sun." Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is no newcomer and yet I will urge anyone who hasn't read this book to go read it. It's amazing.
I'll be back in two weeks with "Moon Witch, Spider King"; I might be back before that...
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This week on the podcast I return with the final part of my series on Emmanuel Eze's challenging "On Reason." In this episode, we discuss sections four and five of the book which are less theory and more the practice of doing philosophy.
I'll be back in two weeks with some fiction, most likely Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "Half of a Yellow Sun." Keep reading!
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This week on the podcast I return with part two of my series on Emmanuel Eze's challenging "On Reason." In this episode, we discuss sections two and three of the book which includes talks of Wittgenstein, Derrida, Chomsky, Sadra Harding, Cimarron, and much more.
I'll be back in two weeks with the third and final podcast in this series. Keep reading!
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This week on the BONUS episode I read and discussed Vaughn A. Jackson's new horror novel "Touched By Shadows.
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This week on the podcast I discussed "On Reason" by Emmanuel Eze. It's going to be a 3-part series. This part focused on the preface/introduction and Chapter 1. Philosophers discussed include Hobbes, Bacon, Hume, Aristotle, Husserl and Descartes.
A few links to some helpful videos:
https://youtu.be/Mj4N0O7QnPY
https://youtu.be/ePQIagmcCXc
I'll be back in two weeks with more "On Reason" but look out for a bonus episode next week. Keep reading!
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This week on the podcast I discussed S.A. Cosby's "Razorblade Tears" and I guarantee I'm the only person who reviewed this book who said, "Fuck this book." Of course, I'm joking. Sort of. Next week I'm reading Vaughn A. Jackson's "Touched by Shadows." Make sure to subscribe/like/share. And keep reading.
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This week on the podcast I discussed two books written by Tomi Adeyemi, "Children of Blood and Bone" and "Children of Virtue and Vengeance." Rate, review and subscribe below:
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This week on the podcast I read C.L.R. James's excellent "Minty Alley." I loved this book. Read it. Read it!
Gonna have a couple of non-scheduled pods coming up but on the schedule and happening, for sure, is "Razorblade Tears" by S.A. Cosby is getting read and reviewed (or talked about)in two weeks. Read along if you would.
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This week on the podcast I read Nnedi Okorafor's latest novel "Noor."
Here's a link to the writer's blog post about Africanfuturism vs. Afrofuturism:
http://nnedi.blogspot.com/2019/10/africanfuturism-defined.html
In two weeks I'll be discussing C.L.R. James's "Minty Alley." I might do a little podcast in between then and now time permitting but if not...keep reading!
We made it! This is the coda podcast for Fred Moten's "In the Break." Not a whole lot of discussion about the actual coda (which is about Adrian Piper) but a lot of thoughts about the book in general.
In two weeks we will be back with a new book (a fiction book!) "Noor" by Nnedi Okorafor.
If you want to read something I recently had published (or listen to it) below is a link to a piece of creative nonfiction that I wrote:
www.ilanotreview.com/ephemeral/the-donut-odyssey/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcGMPzwWVtg&t=2s
Keep reading!
Alright, this is Fred Moten III; this was recorded about a week after part 2 and there is a bit of cleanup here but not much. The final part is already in your feed so check it out. It's more of my thoughts and less of what the book is about although there's a brief discussion of the book's coda.
If you want to read something I recently had published (or listen to it) below is a link to a piece of creative nonfiction that I wrote:
www.ilanotreview.com/ephemeral/the-donut-odyssey/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcGMPzwWVtg&t=2s
Keep reading!
This episode we took on Chapter 2 of Fred Moten's "In the Break" which is titled "In the Break." Lots to discuss here, so here are some things referenced in the podcast this week:
Black Dada Nihilimus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98oK6zZXmQw
Nathaniel Mackey's EXCELLENT piece on Cante Moro - https://web.archive.org/web/20050507015349/http://groovdigit.com/authors/mackey/cantemoro.html
Billie Holiday's "Don't Explain" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45YPO2FyXVI
"Burton Greene Affair" - https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/campuspress.yale.edu/dist/1/2391/files/2018/04/Baraka-Apple.Core-2f8ipnd.pdf
Chapter 3 and a coda podcast are already in the feed so check them out.
If you want to read something I recently had published (or listen to it) below is a link to a piece of creative nonfiction that I wrote:
http://www.ilanotreview.com/ephemeral/the-donut-odyssey/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcGMPzwWVtg&t=2s
Keep reading!
This week I read and discussed the first 2 sections of Fred Moten's "In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition."
In two weeks I'll be back with the last two sections of the book.
If you would like to read a piece I recently got published that is 100% unrelated to this podcast, click here:
http://www.ilanotreview.com/ephemeral/the-donut-odyssey/
Finishing up chapters 4-6 of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Where Do We Go From Here."
Next week on the podcast I'll be discussing Fred Moten's "In the Break."
This week on the podcast I read and reviewed Wole Soyinka's new novel "Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth." A print version of the review can be found at:
https://www.litromagazine.com/reviews/book-review-chronicles-from-the-land-of-the-happiest-people-on-earth/
If you want to hear a more casual conversation about Soyinka's new novel, skip ahead to 10:40.
In two weeks on the podcast we'll be reading and discussing chapters 4-6 of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Where Do We Go From Here."
Keep reading!
This week on the podcast we* read the first three chapters of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?"
I'll be back in two weeks with the next two chapters.
*Marlowe, my cat, pipes up quite a bit.
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This week we read and discussed Mateo Askaripour's debut novel "Black Buck."
In two weeks we start Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Where Do We Go From Here." It's going to be a two-podcast episode. Read along with me.
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BookClub
Intro and outro music by The Keep Running
This week on the podcast I read and discussed "These Toxic Things" by Rachel Howzell Hall.
Next week I'll be reading "Black Buck" by Mateo Askaripour.
This week on the podcast I discuss Stanley Crouch's 1995 collection of essays "The All-American Skin Game." Next week I'll be talking about Rachel Howzell Hall's "These Toxic Things." Stay safe, stay Black and keep reading!
Crouch talking about 50 Cent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-st9gbEHDc
This week on the podcast we discussed "Black Skin, White Masks" by Frantz Fanon, a book that needs no introduction.
Probably talking Stanley Crouch next week.
This week on the podcast I read C. Riley Snorton's "Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity." This was a challenging read so I'll be doing something easier next week (feels like I say that a lot). Hope you enjoy and please follow or subscribe to the podcast wherever you are getting it. Thanks.
This week on the podcast we discuss "African Intellectuals Rethinking Politics, Language, Gender and Development (Africa in the New Millennium)" which was a collection of essays written or released in 2003 to mark the 30th anniversary of CODESRIA. Writers discussed include Thandika Mkandawire, Ali Mazrui, and Ngugi Wa Thiong' O.
Next week on the podcast we'll be discussing a work of fiction but haven't decided on what just yet.
Keep reading!
This week on the podcast I discuss C.L.R. James's "Beyond a Boundary."
Next week I'll be talking about Barbara Neely's "Blanche among the Talented Tenth."
This week on the podcast I'm talking about Brian Broome's 2021 memoir "Punch Me Up to the Gods." I also did a written review of the book here:
https://www.litromagazine.com/reviews/book-review-punch-me-up-to-the-gods/
Next week I said I was going to read a piece of fiction but actually it's going to be "Beyond a Boundary" by C.L.R. James.
Finishing up our 3-part series on Cedric J. Robinson's "Black Marxism."
Next week (or in two weeks, or sooner...) we will be talking about "Punch Me Up to the Gods" by Brian Broome.
We're back with part two of the three-part series on Cedric J. Robinson's "Black Marxism."
Next, we'll be wrapping up the trilogy.
This week in part 1 of a 3-part series I read the first third of Cedric J. Robinson's "Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition."
This week on the podcast I read Richard Wright's posthumous novel "The Man Who Lived Underground."
I'm not going to link to the novel because you can find Richard Wright's books anywhere.
In 2 weeks, not sure what I'll be reading but it might be by Stanley Crouch, Albert Murray or someone else.
This week on the podcast I read "Up from the Deep" by Vaughn A. Jackson. You can check out all of his stuff here:
https://vaughnthewordslinger.weebly.com/
Next week (or in 2 weeks) I'll be reading "The Man Who Lived Underground" by Richard Wright
This week we read "The Other Wes Moore" by Wes Moore
Next week I'll be reading...something. All I know is it will be published in 2021, so something new.
This week on the podcast we read "Blanche on the Lam" by Barbara Neely.
Next week we'll be reading "The Other Wes Moore" by Wes Moore.
This week on the podcast I read "Ujamaa: Essays on Socialism" by Julius Nyerere (as well as an Ohio Short Histories of Africa's "Julius Nyerere" by Paul Bjerk for historical context).
In two weeks I'll be reading "Blanche on the Lam" by Barbara Neely.
This week on the podcast I read and talked about Rodney A. Brown's Typescenes. Links below to the poet's book, website and accompanying performance.
https://www.unlikelystories.org/unlikely-books/typescenes
https://typescenes.com/
https://typescenes.com/%20immediate-dances-score-3/
Next week I'm reading one book by Julius Nyerere and one book about Julius Nyerere.
In this episode I discuss Kayla Rodney's 2019 poetry collection "Swimming Home." As the title suggests the poems are about water but also New Orleans, food, love, Blackness, pelicans and Greek mythology. A link to the collection:
https://www.unlikelystories.org/unlikely-books/swimming-home
Next week I'm reading "Typescenes" by Rodney A. Brown:
https://www.unlikelystories.org/unlikely-books/typescenes
Today on the podcast I am discussing Nikki Dolson's 2020 book, a collection of short stories, "Love and Other Criminal Behavior."
Here's a link to the book/website:
https://www.nikkidolson.com/
Next week I'm going to be reading two books from Unlikely Stories Press. If you want to support an indie press and follow along next week there are links below:
https://www.unlikelystories.org/unlikely-books/typescenes
https://www.unlikelystories.org/unlikely-books/swimming-home
Today on the podcast I am discussing bell hook's 2004 book about Black masculinity, "We Real Cool."
Here's a link to the poem which inspired the title of the book:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/28112/we-real-cool