S5 Ep. 40: Book the Vote: Rachel DeWoskin on Registering Voters (Right Now!) and the Connection Between Writing and Democracy

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Novelist, poet, and memoirist Rachel DeWoskin joins Fiction/Non/Fiction hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss her work on the Writers for Democratic Action’s National Steering Committee. She explains how the group is partnering with libraries and bookstores across the nation to register voters and connect them with crucial information in the run-up to midterm elections, an effort called Book the Vote. She also reads from her novel, Banshee.

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Selected Readings:

Rachel DeWoskin

• Banshee
• Someday We Will Fly

Writers for Democratic Action

• Book The Vote (special events September 20)
• DEMOCRACY BOOK CLUB: Unthinkable: An Afternoon with Jamie Raskin and Paul Auster

Others:

• Biden's Approval Rating Surges After Hitting Low Mark In July, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Half Of Americans Say Trump Should Be Prosecuted On Criminal Charges Over His Handling Of Classified Documents
• Democrats and Republicans Agree That Democracy Is in Danger - The New York Times
• Voting Laws Roundup: May 2022 | Brennan Center for Justice
• Florida Republicans targeted Black voters, justice department says in filing | US voting rights | The Guardian
• 2020 Presidential Election Voting & Registration Tables Now Available
• Americans Think Our Democracy Is on the Brink. So Does Biden. - The New York Times
• Robert Pinsky
• Burning Questions by Margaret Atwood
• Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Paul Auster
• Representative Jamie Raskin
• Ada Limón
• David Modigliani
• Peter Ho Davies
• Charles Baxter
• Jacinda Townsend
• Kiley Reid
• James Baldwin
• William Carlos Williams
• Walt Whitman
• Ralph Ellison
• Schoolhouse Rock

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