How To Sit With Ghosts: In Conversation With Jessica Lynne

This transporting episode will take you to haunted homes and shifting coasts with our two Scorpios—Loam Listen host Amirio Freeman and art critic Jessica Lynne—at the helm. "What are the ghosts that have been following me?" Jessica asks in this potent excavation of family, sites of silence, homespace, and community.

Guest:

Jessica Lynne is a writer and art critic. She is a founding editor of ARTS.BLACK, an online journal of art criticism from Black perspectives. Her writing has been featured in publications such as Art in America, The Believer, BOMB Magazine, The Nation, Frieze, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2020 Graham Foundation Research and Development award and is currently at work on a collection of essays about love, faith, art, and the U.S. South. Jessica lives and works in coastal Virginia.

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La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono trans. By Lawrence Schimel
The Adrienne Kennedy Reader
Tales from the Haunted South by Tiya Miles
Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Cane River by by Horace B. Jenkins
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Missy Elliot Supa Dupa Fly
La cabeza mató a todos by Beatriz Santiago Munoz