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We're back and we're not sorry | Books & Whatnot

Javier Ramirez and Kristin Gilbert are the owners of Exile in Bookville in Chicago, Illinois.
Beth Golay
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KMUW
Javier Ramirez and Kristin Gilbert are the owners of Exile in Bookville in Chicago, Illinois.

KMUW's Beth Golay & Suzanne Perez are back after a 3 month unintentional break, and they're joined by the folks at Exile in Bookville to talk about books coming out in June.

Books talked about in this episode:

Books mentioned by Exile in Bookville:

  • Festival & Game of the Worlds by César Aira
  • Fire Exit by Morgan Talty
  • Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
  • Black Light by Kimberly King Parsons
  • Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
  • The Need by Helen Phillips
  • The Bear by Julia Phillips
  • Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation by Daniel Rachel
  • The Material by Camille Bordas

Books & Whatnot was produced at KMUW Wichita and is part of the NPR Podcast Network.

  • Mark Statzer and Torin Andersen - engineers
  • Haley Crowson & Karlee Cooper - producers
  • Karlee Cooper - digital editor
  • Suzanne Perez & Beth Golay - hosts & editors
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Beth Golay is KMUW's Director of Marketing and Digital Content. She is the host of the KMUW podcast Marginalia, co-host with Suzanne Perez of the Books & Whatnot podcast, creator of the podcast You're Saying It Wrong, creator of KMUW's daily news podcast Wichita's Early Edition, and NPR StoryLab Workshop team member on the award-winning podcast My Fellow Kansans.
Suzanne Perez is KMUW's News Director, overseeing our staff of reporters and hosting our weekly feature program, The Range. She previously covered education for KMUW and the Kansas News Service. Before moving to public radio in 2021, Suzanne worked more than 30 years at The Wichita Eagle, where she reported on schools and a variety of other topics.