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By Between the Covers Podcast

bookcover for Salvage: Readings from the Wreck

Salvage: Readings from the Wreck

Dionne Brand 

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Hardback

$27.00

$25.11

the main book we discuss

bookcover for A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging

A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging

Dionne Brand, 

Saidiya Hartman 

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Paperback

$19.00

$17.67

the 20th anniversary (first ever American edition) of Dionne's landmark work of nonfiction

bookcover for Migrant Brothers: A Poet's Declaration of Human Dignity

Migrant Brothers: A Poet's Declaration of Human Dignity

Patrick Chamoiseau, 

Matthew Amos, 

Fredrik Rönnbäck 

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Paperback

$14.30

We talk at length about Chamoiseau's book Crusoe's Footprint (which is $90 on BookShop!) and in that meditation Dionne mentions this nonfiction book of his as of interest to her

bookcover for The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos

The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos

Dionne Brand 

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$19.95

My favorite book of Dionne's which sits in between poetry and prose (or is both poetry and essay)

bookcover for Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories

Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories

Herman Melville, 

Peter M. Coviello 

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Paperback

$12.00

$11.16

Dionne talks admiringly of Melville's story Benito Cereno as part of an alternate archive of the portrayal of Black life

bookcover for The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

James Weldon Johnson, 

Henry Louis Gates 

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Paperback

$11.00

$10.23

similarly to Benito Cereno, Dionne talks about this book as part of an alternate archive

bookcover for Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World: The Alchemy Lecture

Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World: The Alchemy Lecture

Cristina Rivera Garza, 

Joseph M Pierce, 

Saidiya Hartman, 

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Paperback

$28.69

After I saw Dionne in NYC she sent me this book of incredible lectures