Rivers Solomon's guest appearances

Rivers Solomon

Overdue

La science, CQFD

The Greenlight Bookstore Podcast

HodderPod - Hodder books podcast

New Books in Literature

New Books Network

New Books in Arts & Letters

New Books in Science Fiction

Salon Futura

Littérature SFFF

The Book Coven

Colored Pages Book Club

We Majored in English for This

POWER NOT PITY

Bookalicious 

Sarah Gailey

Tade Thompson

Kim Stanley Robinson

Charles Yu

Ken Liu

Stephen King

Madeline Miller

Tom Sweterlitsch

Ryka Aoki

Andy Weir

Porochista Khakpour

Jasper Fforde

Alastair Reynolds

Seanan McGuire

Madeline Ashby

OwlTail

Imagine a version of the spaceship from Wall-E, but with racial and class divisions that mirror those in our own society. That's a (dramatically oversimplified) one-line summary of what's going on in this week's book. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/overdue and get on your way to being your best self. Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis. Advertise on OverdueSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Imagine a version of the spaceship from Wall-E, but with racial and class divisions that mirror those in our own society. That's a (dramatically oversimplified) one-line summary of what's going on in this week's book. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at<a href="http://betterhelp.com/overdue" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> betterhelp.com/overdue</a> and get on your way to being your best self. Our theme music was composed by <a href="http://instagram.com/nicklerangis" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nick Lerangis</a>. <a href="https://gumball.fm/shows/overdue/5a592688b73aeb30532c6b5d" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Advertise on Overdue</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Ep 601 - An Unkindness of Ghosts, by Rivers Solomon

Are you ready? Because we're ready! This week the Abyss gang takes a long look at the ocean and imagine the stories under there as they check out Rivers Solomon's The Deep. Before they dive in, they discuss Creed III, Rich finally finishes Stephen Markley's The Deluge, The Secret of Ventrilquism by Jon Padgett, The Consultant, V. Castro's Aliens: Vasquez, Re/Member, and Little Demon. It's time now to listen and learn.    Buy The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Staring Into the Abyss: A Podcast

Are you ready? Because we're ready! This week the Abyss gang takes a long look at the ocean and imagine the stories under there as they check out Rivers Solomon's The Deep. Before they dive in, they discuss Creed III, Rich finally finishes Stephen Markley's The Deluge, The Secret of Ventrilquism by Jon Padgett, The Consultant, V. Castro's Aliens: Vasquez, Re/Member, and Little Demon. It's time now to listen and learn.  <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Rivers-Solomon/dp/1534439870/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Buy The Deep by Rivers Solomon</a>

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Rivers Solomon &amp; Michael Roch reviennent sur le genre science-fictif de l'afro-futurisme !   Il était une fois l'afro-futurisme ! L’Afro Futurisme est un courant artistique et aussi littéraire qui a été remis en avant avec la franchise Black Panther au cinéma en 2018. Le terme a été inventé par l’auteur américain Mark Dery , dans son essai “Black to the Futur » pour designer un mouvement de contre culture noire qui existe depuis les années 60 ou la science-fiction n'est jamais bien loin.  Pour Marc Dery, l’afro futurisme est : l’appropriation de la technologie et de l’imagerie de la science-fiction par les Afro-Américains. On pense alors à l'apparition de personnages comme Black Panther ou encore du lieutenant Uhura dans Star Trek dans la pop culture.  Mais le terme est aussi controversé. L'autrice américaine Nnedi Okorafor expliquait  dans une longue interview dans le journal Le Point  : "Je crois qu'il y a plusieurs définitions. Depuis la sortie du film Black Panther, c'est un mot à la mode. Pour moi, cela correspond à tout ce qui vient de l'Afrique et de la culture noire. Si on s'attache à l'essence de ce terme, je dirais que c'est la définition d'un homme blanc qui décrit les visions futuristes d'auteurs afro-américains. Je trouve assez réducteur de ne situer cette expression qu'aux États-Unis alors qu'elle concerne également l'Afrique. L'afro-futurisme est devenu un mot marketing grâce au succès de Black Panther. Je me fiche d'appartenir à ce genre littéraire car je me vois comme une Nigériane-Américaine. Je considère que mes origines ont été volées à l'Afrique". 

C'est plus que de la SF

Rivers Solomon &amp; Michael Roch reviennent sur le genre science-fictif de l'afro-futurisme !  Il était une fois l'afro-futurisme ! L’Afro Futurisme est un courant artistique et aussi littéraire qui a été remis en avant avec la franchise Black Panther au cinéma en 2018. Le terme a été inventé par l’auteur américain <a href="http://blackstothefuture.com/mark-dery-14-portrait/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mark Dery</a> , dans son essai “Black to the Futur » pour designer un mouvement de contre culture noire qui existe depuis les années 60 ou la science-fiction n'est jamais bien loin.  Pour Marc Dery, l’afro futurisme est : l’appropriation de la technologie et de l’imagerie de la science-fiction par les Afro-Américains. On pense alors à l'apparition de personnages comme Black Panther ou encore du lieutenant Uhura dans Star Trek dans la pop culture. Mais le terme est aussi controversé. L'autrice américaine Nnedi Okorafor <a href="https://www.lepoint.fr/culture/nnedi-okorafor-l-afro-futurisme-est-devenu-un-mot-marketing-10-07-2018-2234867_3.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">expliquait  dans une longue interview dans le journal Le Point </a> : "Je crois qu'il y a plusieurs définitions. Depuis la sortie du film Black Panther, c'est un mot à la mode. Pour moi, cela correspond à tout ce qui vient de l'Afrique et de la culture noire. Si on s'attache à l'essence de ce terme, je dirais que c'est la définition d'un homme blanc qui décrit les visions futuristes d'auteurs afro-américains. Je trouve assez réducteur de ne situer cette expression qu'aux États-Unis alors qu'elle concerne également l'Afrique. L'afro-futurisme est devenu un mot marketing grâce au succès de Black Panther. Je me fiche d'appartenir à ce genre littéraire car je me vois comme une Nigériane-Américaine. Je considère que mes origines ont été volées à l'Afrique".

Introduction à l'afro-futurisme - Rivers Solomon & Michael Roch #137

In Solomon’s Future Fable, we join a pack of wolves to discover the importance of community.Rivers Solomon is an award-winning author, self-proclaimed gender malcontent and keen bird watcher, whose novel An Unkindness of Ghosts featured in the Aesop Queer Library last year. Their most recent novel Sorrowland was released in 2021.

Future Fables

In Solomon’s Future Fable, we join a pack of wolves to discover the importance of community. Rivers Solomon is an award-winning author, self-proclaimed gender malcontent and keen bird watcher, whose novel An Unkindness of Ghosts featured in the Aesop Queer Library last year. Their most recent novel Sorrowland was released in 2021.

'The Pack' by Rivers Solomon

It’s BHM! Join us as we cover The Deep by Rivers Solomon.

It’s BHM! Join us as we cover The Deep by Rivers Solomon.

WMiEFT 119: The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Happy Pride month!! We're kicking off the festivities with Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon. It's a sci-fi style thriller with a lot going on and we get into all the details. Movie Pairings: The Village Unbreakable Song Pairings: Lotus Eater by Opeth Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land by Marina

Happy Pride month!! We're kicking off the festivities with Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon. It's a sci-fi style thriller with a lot going on and we get into all the details. Movie Pairings: The Village Unbreakable Song Pairings: Lotus Eater by Opeth Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land by Marina

EP 87 - Sorrow Land by Rivers Solomon

Sorrowland By Rivers Solomon Website: https://gobookmart.com A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction  Vern—seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised—flees for the shelter of the woods. There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world.  But even in the forest, Vern is a hunted woman. Forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go, she unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of, her body wracked by inexplicable and uncanny changes.  To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family, Vern has to face the past, and more troublingly, the future—outside the woods. Finding the truth will mean uncovering the secrets of the compound she fled but also the violent history in America that produced it.  Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland is a genre-bending work of Gothic fiction. Here, monsters aren’t just individuals, but entire nations. It is a searing, seminal book that marks the arrival of a bold, unignorable voice in American fiction.  ---   Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gobookmart-review/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gobookmart-review/support

GoBookMart Book Reviews

Sorrowland By Rivers Solomon Website: <a href="https://gobookmart.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://gobookmart.com</a> A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction Vern—seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised—flees for the shelter of the woods. There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world. But even in the forest, Vern is a hunted woman. Forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go, she unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of, her body wracked by inexplicable and uncanny changes. To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family, Vern has to face the past, and more troublingly, the future—outside the woods. Finding the truth will mean uncovering the secrets of the compound she fled but also the violent history in America that produced it. Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland is a genre-bending work of Gothic fiction. Here, monsters aren’t just individuals, but entire nations. It is a searing, seminal book that marks the arrival of a bold, unignorable voice in American fiction. --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/gobookmart-review/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/gobookmart-review/message</a> Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/gobookmart-review/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/gobookmart-review/support</a>

Sorrowland: By Rivers Solomon | Book Review Podcast

Bonjour à tous, dans ce nouvel épisode de l'Onde Littéraire, Maiana et moi-même nous attaquons à la figure mythique de la sirène avec deux livres respectivement sortis en juin et septembre 2020 : Sirènes de Laura Pugno et les Abysses de Rivers Solomon. Au menu, une critique croisée des deux ouvrages et un débat axé sur le rôle de la sirène comme allégorie de la condition humaine. Merci de votre écoute, nous vous souhaitons d'excellentes lectures à venir. Ce podcast est enregistré depuis les locaux de l'école de journalisme IICP de Paris et les jingles sont composés par Michel Klingebiel.

L'Onde Littéraire

Bonjour à tous, dans ce nouvel épisode de l'Onde Littéraire, Maiana et moi-même nous attaquons à la figure mythique de la sirène avec deux livres respectivement sortis en juin et septembre 2020 : Sirènes de Laura Pugno et les Abysses de Rivers Solomon. Au menu, une critique croisée des deux ouvrages et un débat axé sur le rôle de la sirène comme allégorie de la condition humaine. Merci de votre écoute, nous vous souhaitons d'excellentes lectures à venir. Ce podcast est enregistré depuis les locaux de l'école de journalisme IICP de Paris et les jingles sont composés par Michel Klingebiel.

Episode 2 : Critique croisée de Sirènes de Laura Pugno et Les Abysses de Rivers Solomon

I sat down with Rivers Solomon, author of our October book club selection, AN UNKINDNESS OF GHOSTS.We discuss Rivers’s writing process, geek out over history, and explore their powerful debut novel. AN UNKINDNESS OF GHOSTS tackles issues like race, identity, gender, and poverty. It is a beautiful and haunting, queer sci-fi novel that uses Afro-futurism to convey a journey that's truly out of this world. Shonda Rhimes called it "a difficult work that pays off; the rare kind of book that stays with you for years." It definitely will.Support the show

The Deviant's World

I sat down with Rivers Solomon, author of our October book club selection, AN UNKINDNESS OF GHOSTS.We discuss Rivers’s writing process, geek out over history, and explore their powerful debut novel. AN UNKINDNESS OF GHOSTS tackles issues like race, identity, gender, and poverty. It is a beautiful and haunting, queer sci-fi novel that uses Afro-futurism to convey a journey that's truly out of this world. Shonda Rhimes called it "a difficult work that pays off; the rare kind of book that stays with you for years." It definitely will.<a href="http://ericcervini.com" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show</a>

An Unkindness of Ghosts with Rivers Solomon

Two award-winning authors return to Greenlight as Akwaeke Emezi discusses their highly anticipated new novel The Death of Vivek Oji in a lively conversation with Rivers Solomon.  The two talk about the challenges of writing a book where the main character dies in the first chapter, the origins of the book in ideas of mis-gendering, the setting in the Nigeria of Emezi’s youth, biological vs. chosen families, and how "writing deviants" challenges people's concepts of themselves. (Recorded August 6, 2020) 

Two award-winning authors return to Greenlight as Akwaeke Emezi discusses their highly anticipated new novel The Death of Vivek Oji in a lively conversation with Rivers Solomon.  The two talk about the challenges of writing a book where the main character dies in the first chapter, the origins of the book in ideas of mis-gendering, the setting in the Nigeria of Emezi’s youth, biological vs. chosen families, and how "writing deviants" challenges people's concepts of themselves. (Recorded August 6, 2020)