Gather Me by Glory Edim is a memoir that centers on reading, writing and the way literature can shape us and make us feel seen. Edim joins us to talk about why she wrote this book, the importance of an author’s voice, the many works that shaped her as a reader and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over.  

This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.                     

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Featured Books (Episode): 

Gather Me by Glory Edim 

Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim 

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen 

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 

Middlemarch by George Eliot 

The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates 

There There by Tommy Orange 

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin 

Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward 

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward 

James by Percival Everett 

Erasure by Percival Everett  

How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith