Ep 10 - Netflix Comedy Specials & Heidi Heilig's YA Duology

Lin has been enjoying Netflix comedy specials and she recommends a number of shows that tackle immigration and cultural translation with humour and panache. Such as Maz Jobrani’s Immigrant, Vir Das’s Abroad Understanding and Losing It, Gabriel Iglesias’s I’m Sorry For What I Said When I Was Hungry, Hari Kondabolu’s Warn Your Relatives, Mo Amer’s The Vegabond, Ali Wong’s Baby Cobra and Hard Knock Wife, Gina Yashere’s Laughing to America and Skinny Bitch, and Tig Notaro’s Happy To Be Here and TIG. (Netflix.com)

Margrit talks about Heidi Heilig’s fantasy duology, The Girl from Everywhere & The Ship beyond Time (http://www.heidiheilig.com/books/). Heilig weaves myth & history from all over the world in these beautifully written books, thus taking the whole Eurocentric genre of fantasy in a global direction.

Question of the episode: What stories have you read that paints the world from a non-dominant point of view?

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