Defining the Line With Morgan Jerkins

First Draft Episode #264: Morgan Jenkins

Morgan Jerkins, author of essay collection This Will Be My
Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and
Feminist in (White) America, talks about her new book, social
history and memoir Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the
Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots.


Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode




Lolita by Vladimir Nobokov




Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert




East of Eden by John Steinbeck




City of God (movie)




Morgan worked as an editorial assistant at independent
publisher, online magazine, and writing class hub Catapult




Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay




Get Out (movie)




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