The Sheri Show

Let's Talk Marlon James's Black Leopard Red Wolf with Faramola S. (Part 1 of 2)

In this episode, I talk with Faramola S. about Marlon James' fourth novel, Black Leopard Red Wolf, the first book in The Dark Star Trilogy [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/TD5/the-dark-star-trilogy/]. It was such an expansive conversation, we had to split it across two episodes to capture all the nuances of our love for the book as well as the things about it that challenged us.

Sister Scholars Discuss Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

The Sheri Show is back for a second season! In the season opener, Sheri discusses with her fellow sister scholars Deesha Philyaw's much celebrated short story collection The Secret Lives of Church Ladies [https://wvupressonline.com/secretlives]. It was hard to talk about such an intimate collection without revealing too many personal details about our own lives, but one thing is for sure, as much as we read the collection, it certainly read us.

The Sheri Show with Anna-Bo

In this episode is an intimate conversation with one of my nearest, dearest, oldest, and besets friends, Anna-Bo. This wasn’t an easy one to record. We literally tried to do it on three different occasions. Failing each time. And even with the successful recording session, we kept getting cut off because of my profoundly abysmal internet service. Despite Mediacom’s obvious attempts at sabotage, we nonetheless persevered and I stitched 16 different audio tracks together, so you could hear a little bit about Bo and me and our friendship. Which is kinda like the process of making this recoding. Distance is a challenge, but we persevere through every single obstacle, and in the end, we have something beautiful.

Let's Talk About Luster with Faramola S.

Who knew it would take the whole first season to actually get to a show where we talk about books? Better late than never, yes? On this week’s episode I talk with Faramola Shonekan primarily about Raven Leilani's National Book Critics Circle Award winning debut novel Luster, but really also about so much more. In true The Sheri Show style too, we check our own ideas by thinking through their underlying assumptions and what we come away with are some solid insights for thinking about young Black female characters in contemporary novels and the people who write them.

Sister Scholars Discuss Coming 2 America

Admittedly, in this week's episode, there are more rants than there are raves. But what can you do when you're talking to scholars of Black history and culture from different disciplines and the sequel to Coming To America? The Sister Scholars are back and we taking on Coming 2 America. Though the consensus is that we are entirely and collectively not here for it — not even for the ways it can help us think about Eddie Murphy as an auteur — we talk about, among other things, the possibilities of diasporic solidarity, what it means to be critical of a popular cultural product that others enjoy, and why Gladys Knight really shouldn’t participate in this kind of foolery.