Kaylie Jones

Episode 3 January 09, 2019 01:40:08
Kaylie Jones
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Kaylie Jones

Jan 09 2019 | 01:40:08

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Show Notes

“So Let It Be Written” speaks with Kaylie Jones. Kaylie is an editor and publisher of the Akashic Book imprint Kaylie Jones Books (KJB). She is also a professor and author of multiple novels and her 2009 memoir “Lies My Mother Never Told Me.”  We talk teaching, publishing, PEN USA’s decision to remove John Smelcer’s novel “Stealing Indians” as a finalist for YA fiction, and much more.

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Lies My Mother Never Told Me

John Smelcer’s website is here, and links to the controversy are here and here.

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