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REWIND: Exploring the Layers with Morgan Jerkins
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Jul 14, 2022
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01:01:05

On this episode of Black & Published, Nikesha is speaking with writer, editor, and New York Times Bestselling author jerkins.com/">Morgan Jerkins. Jerkins, who previously wrote the essay collection, jerkins.com/this-will-be-my-undoing">This Will Be My Undoing and the memoir jerkins.com/wandering-in-strange-lands">Wandering in Strange Lands, marks her fiction debut with Caul Baby. The Senior Culture Editor for ESPN's The Undefeated and a visiting professor at Columbia University, Jerkins' work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, ELLE, Esquire and more. She is currently based in Harlem. During the interview Jerkins' opens up about how her memoir helped inspire parts of her novel and why she chose to examine Black motherhood with such intensity. She also discusses the undercurrent of displacement that drives the motivations of her characters, how women make an enterprise out of their bodies, and why when she's all written out, first and foremost, she wants to be remembered. ***Follow @Nikesha_Elise on Twitter and Instagram and check out her latest novel Beyond Bourbon Street available everywhere books are sold. Don't forget to subscribe to Black & Published on your podcast platform of choice as well as rate and review. If you have thoughts, feedback, or questions about the episode, hit us up at @blkandpublished on Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag #blackandpublished. 

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