


On this week's show, we're setting up Shalita Grant, actress and founder of the company Four Naturals Hair. Please follow and tell us all the books you've fallen in love with recently. The guest: JP Gurnett The picks: Head over to Montana Fake Like Me by Barbara Bourland Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service by Tajja Isen Bath Haus by PJ Vernon Where to find us: Find our show online at and on Twitter and Instagram. He can be a snob about music and art, and he recently adored Yellowjackets. He absolutely believes in astrology, and is a aries sun, sag moon, and gemini rising. JP recently read and loved A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt and Go Home, Ricky! by Gene Kwak, but sometimes struggles with reading fiction since he often reads with a priority to learn. When not building community through arts engagement, he taught English as a Second Language in a high school. JP is the co-founder of Queer Nite and serves as communications director for BFF Omaha, both now long-running queer institutions in Nebraska. On this week's show, we're setting up John-Paul Gurnett, a multidisciplinary artist. The guest: Bria Schirripa The picks: Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Beauty Queens by Libba Bray Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter Malibu Rising by Taylor Reid Jenkins Where to find us: Find our show online at and on Twitter and Instagram. She thinks she would have thrived in the late ‘70s and ‘80s thanks to big hair and disco. A self-proclaimed snob about pasta, her dream vacation would be in Florence. Bria is an avid reader, and recently loved the novels The Boys Club by Erica Katz, Who is Maud Dixon by Alexandra Andrews, and Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner, but generally doesn’t love fantasy novels. Naturally, her dream Saturday consists of a walk in the neighborhood, in addition to drinking an overpriced latte and hoping for a Timothee Chalamet sighting. She documents the latest happenings in New York’s charming West Village neighborhood on her page, the Bleecker Street Beat. Bria is a product manager by day and a writer and creator by night. On this week's show, we're setting up Bria Schirripa.
