Episode 14 - Information is Meant to be Shared with Mawuli Grant Agbefe

On this episode, Mawuli Grant Agbefe and I discuss his love for fascinating non-fiction, including one of my absolute favorite books ever that he recommended to me in January! We also discuss our shared love of being readers in Chicago, based on the gorgeous places to read and the incredible resource the Chicago Public Library is. 

 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

The Nix by Nathan Hill 

The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft

Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne 

 

Books Highlighted by Mawuli: 

The Official Preppy Handbook by Jonathan Roberts, Carol McD. Wallace, Mason Wiley, and Lisa Birnbach

The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy by Stephanie Kelton 

Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Tragedy and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness by Jennifer Berry Hawes 

Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss by Kim Hong Nguyen 

Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe

Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy as we Know it by Kashmir Hill

How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith 

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber 

 

Other Books Mentioned in the Episode:

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation and the Threat to Democracy by Mehrsa Baradaran 

Take Ivy by Shosuke Ishizu and Toshiyuki Kurosu

His Name is George Floyd by Toluse Olorunippa and Robert Samuels 

Columbine by Dave Cullen 

The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff