Mixed Chicks Chat

Episode 247: Mixed Chicks Chat with Best-selling Author Jamie Ford

We were super-excited that Jamie Ford, author of the NYT best-seller Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, joined us for a wide-ranging talk about the Mixed experience, and images of mixed folks in film and literature.  And he's so charming and funny.  Be sure to take a listen.

Episode - Mixed Chicks Chat w/Tom Williams, writer

Join us for a conversation with Tom Williams.  English Department Chair at Morehead State University and author of the novella, The Mimic's Own Voice.  You can learn more about Tom on his website.

Episode 235: New York Times Bestseller, Rachel Simon, The Story of Beautiful Girl

New York Times Bestseller Rachel Simon joins us to talk about The Story of Beautiful Girl, a wonderful story about love across the color lines and the Mixed experience.  Listen in and think about mixed versus fixed!  (Note: Rachel will be on paperback tour at the beginning of 2012. Don't miss her!)

Episode 23): Professor Daniel Sharfstein author of The Invisible Line: Three American Families & the Secret Journey from Black to White

Don't miss this great talk with Professor Daniel Sharfstein author of The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White (Penguin Press 2011).  Sharfstein speaks eloquently about these amazing and at the same time common families who crossed the color line.  He suggests that these stories offers this generation a reason to focus on discrimination rather than identity. (You can also find Professor Sharfstein on twitter: @dsharfstein.

Episode 227: Scholar Michele Elam, The Souls of Mixed Folks

The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium is a riveting book about the Mixed experience. Please listen in to this great conversation with acclaimed scholar Michele Elam who is the Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor in the Department of English at Stanford University.  You can also download the episode from itunes for free!

Episode 226: Writer Susan Fales-Hill, One Flight Up

Don't miss our chat with writer Susan Fales-Hill talking about her new book One Flight Up--"an irresistible comedic romp through the boardrooms, bedrooms, and ballrooms of modern New York society." Susan is a true delight in this episode, and shares candidly about her own upbringing as a mixed chick in New York's Upper West Side. Funny, honest and charming. You will adore her! Listen here or download the episode for free on itunes.

Award-winning Writer Susan Straight Chats with the Mixed Chicks

We were incredibly excited to finally get Susan Straight on the show.  She's got a new book out, Take One Candle Light a Room, and it's awesome.  Listen to our chat with Susan about her own Mixed experience--and then run out and buy this book!

Episode 124: Marie Mockett Picking Bones From Ash

We were so excited to have Hapa writer Marie Mockett on the show today talking about her debut novel Picking Bones From Ash (Graywolf) published this month!  Of course Marie was a hit with the listeners! She read a few passages from Picking Bones from Ash -- and our listeners thought a petition should be circulated to get Marie to do an audiobook version with her voice. I agree! I know when I read the book I had her voice in my ear--

Okay, don't listen to us!  Listen to what Amy Tan says about the book: "A book of intelligence and heart.  As Mockett reveals, the ghosts of our mothers are always within us."

Better yet: listen to Marie herself--we think you'll love her too!