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Podcast: Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
Episode: Lacy M. Johnson : The Reckonings
Description: “Through prose that is at once passionate and percussive, Lacy Johnson’s The Reckonings demands that we place justice and discovery at the center of our conversations, memories, imaginations, and art. I don’t know that I’ve ever been happier to be alive after reading any book. In this weird way that probably says way too much about the smallness of my life, I felt like everything would be okay—like we will make and sustain justice—because a book I needed but never imagined reading was in the world . . . The Reckonings is proof that caring about this place, and getting...