Get Lit Re-Reads: Authors Mateo Askaripour and Patricia Lockwood, Musical Guests Pharoahe Monch and John Darnielle

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Jul 16, 2021

[REBROADCAST FROM MARCH 2, 2021] We’ll air the February installment of our virtual book club series, “Get Lit with All Of It,” with author Mateo Askaripour. His debut novel, Black Buck, tells the story of a man who becomes the first Black employee at a New York start-up and develops a plan to help young people of color infiltrate America’s sales force.

[REBROADCAST FROM MARCH 2, 2021] We’ll air an interview from the February installment of our virtual book club series, “Get Lit with All Of It,” with Thomas McLeod, an investor with Saltwater and the chief content officer at Coil, who shares his experience as a Black man in Silicon Valley, and poses some ideas about how to make things better.

[REBROADCAST FROM MARCH 2, 2021] We’ll also air an interview from the February installment of our virtual book club series, “Get Lit with All Of It” with rapper Pharoahe Monch and performances from his new project, th1rt3en. The group features Monch, guitarist Marcus Machado, and drummer Daru Jones.

[REBROADCAST FROM APRIL 6, 2021] We air highlights from our March Get Lit with All Of It book club event with author and poet Patricia Lockwood, which took place virtually live on March 31. We spent the month reading Lockwood’s debut novel, No One is Talking About This, which follows an unnamed narrator as she explores sudden Internet fame while grappling with grief and loss.

[REBROADCAST FROM APRIL 6, 2021] We air two special performances from John Darnielle, who performs as the Mountain Goats, from our March Get Lit with All Of It book club event.

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