Think Again Podcast #59 – Jacqueline Woodson – Bored Kid Dreaming/Apologies Long Overdue
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In this episode: Jacqueline Woodson, the Newberry, Caldecott, and National-Book Award winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming, If You Come Softly and many other works of poetry and literature for children and young adults, has just released Another Brooklyn, her first adult novel in twenty years. Another Brooklyn heartbreakingly illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to adulthood—the promise and peril of growing up—and exquisitely renders a powerful, indelible, and fleeting friendship that united four young lives.
On this week’s episode of Think Again–a Big Think Podcast, Jacqueline and host Jason Gots discuss collective amnesia, organized religion, the power of photographs, and why never being bored is bad for for kids.
Surprise “conversation starter” interview clips in this episode: Lynsey Addario, Sebastian Junger, Maria Konnikova
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