The Most Dangerous Thing in America
Episodes
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Dream Count
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Dream Count. Keep reading! Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us...
50 Cent - The Accomplice
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read 50 Cent's The Accomplice. Keep reading! Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-m...
P. Djeli Clark - A Master of Djinn
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read P. Djeli Clark's A Master of Djinn. Keep reading! Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/pod...
Chris Herring - Blood in the Garden
31 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read Chris Herring's Blood in the Garden. Keep reading! Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/po...
Jahmal Mayfield - Smoke Kings
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read Jahmal Mayfield's Smoke Kings. Also wrote a review here: https://medium.com/@bobbywwilsonjr/smoke-kings-a4d940ab483...
Donovan X. Ramsey - When Crack Was King Acts V - VIII
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I finished Donovan X. Ramsey's When Crack Was King. Keep reading! Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.c...
Donovan X. Ramsey - When Crack Was King ActsI-IV
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read the first half of Donovan X. Ramsey's excellent book When Crack Was King. Keep reading! Subscribe to the podcast...
Hanif Abdurraqib - There's Always This Year (Second Half)
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I finished Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year. Keep reading! Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.app...
Hanif Abdurraqib - There's Always This Year (First Half)
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year. Keep reading! Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.c...
Paul Beatty - The Sellout
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read Paul Beatty's The Sellout. Keep reading! If you're intrested in the project mentioned on the pod, it's non-book ...
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - Chain Gang All-Stars
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Chain Gang All Stars. Checkout The Kids of Rutherford County for a podcast about very y...
Marc Olden - Poe Must Die
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read Marc Olden's Poe Must Die. Keep reading! Like the pod about Black books? Buy a Black book! https://www.a...
Jaurice Smiley - The Royal Gray Box
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read Jaurice Smiley's The Royal Gray Box. You can purchase Jaurice's book here. Keep reading! Like the pod about Blac...
Vincent Woodard - The Delectable Negro (Chapter 6)
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I finished Vincent Woodard's The Delectable Negro. Keep reading! Like the pod about Black books? Buy a Black book! h...
Vincent Woodard - The Delectable Negro (Chapter 5)
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I continued Vincent Woodard's The Delectable Negro. Chapter 6 next week! No delay! Keep reading! Like the pod about Bla...
Vincent Woodard - The Delectable Negro (Chapter 4)
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I continue reading and discussing Vincent Woodard's The Delectable Negro. So far proving not to be my cup of tea. Keep r...
Vincent Woodard - The Delectable Negro (Chapter 3)
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read chapters 2 and 3 of Vincent Woodard’s The Delectable Negro. Because I talk too much I have to break the podcast in...
Vincent Woodard - The Delectable Negro (Chapter 2)
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read chapters 2 and 3 of Vincent Woodard’s The Delectable Negro. Because I talk too much I have to break the podcast in ...
Vincent Woodard - The Delectable Negro (Introduction and Chapter 1)
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I begin Vincent Woodard’s The Delectable Negro starting with the introduction and chapter 1. Keep reading! Like the p...
John Edgar Wideman - Look For Me And I’ll Be Gone
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week (it actually took weeks) I read John Edgar Wideman's Look For Me And I'll Be Gone. Keep reading! Subscribe to the podcast: https:...
Yessoh G.D. - Ta Lę
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Back for the first time! After a three-month hiatus, I return with my first interview with Yessoh G.D., author of Ta Lę. This is the first book in a...
Justin Tinsley - It Was All a Dream Part 3
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week I read the final third of Justin Tinsley's "It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him" and did some version of podcast freestyl...
Justin Tinsley - It Was All a Dream Part 2
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week I read the second third (chapters 8-15) of Justin Tinsley's "It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him." Keep reading! ...
Justin Tinsley - It Was All a Dream
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week I read the first third of Justin Tinsley's "It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him." The YouTube vid referenced in the ...
Jonathan Abrams - The Come Up Part 3
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week I finished "The Come Up: an Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop" by Jonathon Abrams. This is the final part of a three-part podcast. After t...
Jonathan Abrams - The Come Up Part 2
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I continued "The Come Up: an Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop" by Jonathon Abrams. This is part two of a three-part podcas...
Jonathan Abrams - The Come Up Part 1
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read "The Come Up: an Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop" by Jonathon Abrams. This is part one of a three-part podcast. Af...
Suyi Davies Okungbowa - Son of the Storm
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read a fantasy novel for the first time in a long time, "Son of the Storm" by Suyi Davies Okungbowa. In two weeks “The Co...
Toni Morrison - A Mercy
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read Toni Morrison’s third to last novel “A Mercy.” In two weeks “Son of the Storm.” Keep reading! Subscrib...
Mat Johnson - Invisible Things
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read the allegorical “Invisible Things” by Mat Johnson. Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/p...
Cyberfunk!
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read the Black sci-fi anthology “Cyberfunk!” by many authors including John Jennings, Napoleon Wells, Milton J. Davis, ...
Alois Mlambo - A History of Zimbabwe (Chapters 7 and 8)
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I finished "A History of Zimbabwe" by Professor Alois Mlambo. These are the final two chapters plus the coda. I came to this ...
Alois Mlambo - A History of ZImbabwe (Chapters 5 and 6)
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read "A History of Zimbabwe" by Professor Alois Mlambo (Chapters 5 and 6). I came to this book through some data science wo...
Alois Mlambo - A History of Zimbabwe
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read "A History of Zimbabwe" by Professor Alois Mlambo. I came to this book through some data science work, so if you want ...
Andre Brock Jr. - Distributed Blackness (Chapter 6 - The Matrix)
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast chapter 6 from Andre Brock Jr.'s "Distributed Blackness", diving into the (Black technocultural) matrix. Some Data Science s...
Andre Brock Jr. - Distributed Blackness (Ch. 4 & 5 Ratchetry & Respectability)
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast chapters 4 & 5 from Andre Brock Jr.'s "Distributed Blackness", all about ratchetry and respectability. Link to Cathy Cohen's...
Andre Brock Jr - Distributed Blackness (Chapter 3 - Black Twitter)
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We back! This week on the podcast I read Distributed Blackness Chapter 3, Black Twitter. Some thoughts, some musings, the usual. Keep reading! Subsc...
Andre Brock Jr. - Distributed Blackness (Chapters 1 & 2)
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I (finally!) read Distributed Blackness...at least the first two chapters. Next 2 chapters coming next week. Keep reading! ...
D. Watkins - The Cook Up
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast...another memoir...I didn't expect it either, but it's D. Watkins's "The Cook Up." Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcas...
Kendra James - Admissions
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I did the reading club talk at the back of Kendra James's memoir "Admissions." For a more straightforward review go here: ht...
Veronica Henry - The Quarter Storm
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I discuss Veronica Henry's fantasy/detective/crime novel "The Quarter Storm." Keep reading! Subscribe to the podcast: htt...
Paula Lennon - Murder in Montego Bay
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast Paula Lennon's "Murder in Montego Bay", a detective novel set in Jamaica. Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.apple....
Nelson George - Hip Hop America
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read Nelson George's "Hip Hop America" originally published in 1998 (with a new chapter in 2004). Loved it because I love h...
Cadwell Turnbull - No Gods, No Monsters
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast Cadwell Turnbull's amazing, modern, and timeless "No Gods, No Monsters." You can read a review of the novel here: https://m...
Alice Walker - The Color Purple
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast Alice Walker’s immense, monumental “The Color Purple.” A classic. Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.co...
Tyora Moody - Deep Fried Trouble
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast Tyora Moody's "Deep Fried Trouble." Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-most-dangerous-thi...
DuVay Knox - The Detective
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read DuVay Knox's "The Detective" (link to buy at Clash Books website below). It put me in the mind of Slick Rick's "India...
Marlon James - Moon Witch, Spider King
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast Marlon James's big, bad (good bad, obviously) "Moon Witch, Spider King." A written review is here: https://medium.com/@bobbyw...
Dionne Iriving - Quint
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast we got an indie! "Quint" by Dionne Iriving put out by 7.13 Books out of Brooklyn. To read my review of the novel: https://...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read the amazing, the iconic, the classic novel "Half of a Yellow Sun." Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is no newcomer and yet I w...
Emmanuel Eze - On Reason Part 3
05 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I return with the final part of my series on Emmanuel Eze's challenging "On Reason." In this episode, we discuss sections fou...
Emmanuel Eze - On Reason Part 2
20 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I return with part two of my series on Emmanuel Eze's challenging "On Reason." In this episode, we discuss sections two and t...
BONUS - Vaughn A. Jackson - Touched By Shadows
13 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the BONUS episode I read and discussed Vaughn A. Jackson's new horror novel "Touched By Shadows. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze - On Reason
06 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I discussed "On Reason" by Emmanuel Eze. It's going to be a 3-part series. This part focused on the preface/introduction and ...
S.A. Cosby - Razorblade Tears
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I discussed S.A. Cosby's "Razorblade Tears" and I guarantee I'm the only person who reviewed this book who said, "this book."...
Tomi Adeyemi - Children of Blood and Bone & Children of Virtue and Vengeance
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I discussed two books written by Tomi Adeyemi, "Children of Blood and Bone" and "Children of Virtue and Vengeance." Rate, rev...
C.L.R. James - Minty Alley
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read C.L.R. James's excellent "Minty Alley." I loved this book. Read it. Read it! Gonna have a couple of non-scheduled pod...
Nnedi Okorafor - Noor
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read Nnedi Okorafor's latest novel "Noor." Here's a link to the writer's blog post about Africanfuturism vs. Afrofuturism:...
Fred Moten - In the Break (Coda)
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We made it! This is the coda podcast for Fred Moten's "In the Break." Not a whole lot of discussion about the actual coda (which is about Adrian Piper...
Fred Moten - In The Break (Chapter 3)
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alright, this is Fred Moten III; this was recorded about a week after part 2 and there is a bit of cleanup here but not much. The final part is alread...
Fred Moten - In the Break (Chapter 2)
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode we took on Chapter 2 of Fred Moten's "In the Break" which is titled "In the Break." Lots to discuss here, so here are some things referen...
Fred Moten - In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week I read and discussed the first 2 sections of Fred Moten's "In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition." In two weeks I'll ...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Where Do We Go From Here
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Finishing up chapters 4-6 of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Where Do We Go From Here." Next week on the podcast I'll be discussing Fred Moten's "In t...
Wole Soyinka - Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read and reviewed Wole Soyinka's new novel "Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth." A print version of the review can ...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Where Do We Go From Here
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast we* read the first three chapters of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?" I'll be back ...
Mateo Askaripour - Black Buck
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we read and discussed Mateo Askaripour's debut novel "Black Buck." In two weeks we start Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Where Do We Go From Here...
Rachel Howzell Hall - These Toxic Things
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read and discussed "These Toxic Things" by Rachel Howzell Hall. Next week I'll be reading "Black Buck" by Mateo Askaripour...
Stanley Crouch - The All-American Skin Game
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I discuss Stanley Crouch's 1995 collection of essays "The All-American Skin Game." Next week I'll be talking about Rachel How...
Frantz Fanon - Black Skin, White Masks
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast we discussed "Black Skin, White Masks" by Frantz Fanon, a book that needs no introduction. Probably talking Stanley Crouch n...
C. Riley Snorton - Black on Both Sides
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read C. Riley Snorton's "Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity." This was a challenging read so I'll be d...
Thandika Mkandawire - African Intellectuals
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast we discuss "African Intellectuals Rethinking Politics, Language, Gender and Development (Africa in the New Millennium)" which...
C.L.R. James - Beyond a Boundary
03 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I discuss C.L.R. James's "Beyond a Boundary." Next week I'll be talking about Barbara Neely's "Blanche among the Talented Te...
Brian Broome - Punch Me Up to the Gods
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I'm talking about Brian Broome's 2021 memoir "Punch Me Up to the Gods." I also did a written review of the book here: https:...
Cedric J. Robinson - Black Marxism Part 3
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Finishing up our 3-part series on Cedric J. Robinson's "Black Marxism." Next week (or in two weeks, or sooner...) we will be talking about "Punch Me ...
Cedric J. Robinson - Black Marxism Part 2
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're back with part two of the three-part series on Cedric J. Robinson's "Black Marxism." Next, we'll be wrapping up the trilogy.
Cedric J. Robinson - Black Marxism Part 1
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week in part 1 of a 3-part series I read the first third of Cedric J. Robinson's "Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition."
Richard Wright - The Man Who Lived Underground
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read Richard Wright's posthumous novel "The Man Who Lived Underground." I'm not going to link to the novel because you ca...
Vaughn A. Jackson - Up from the Deep
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read "Up from the Deep" by Vaughn A. Jackson. You can check out all of his stuff here: https://vaughnthewordslinger.weebly...
Wes Moore - The Other Wes Moore
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we read "The Other Wes Moore" by Wes Moore Next week I'll be reading...something. All I know is it will be published in 2021, so something ...
Barbara Neely - Blanche on the Lam
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast we read "Blanche on the Lam" by Barbara Neely. Next week we'll be reading "The Other Wes Moore" by Wes Moore.
Julius Nyerere - Ujamaa
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read "Ujamaa: Essays on Socialism" by Julius Nyerere (as well as an Ohio Short Histories of Africa's "Julius Nyerere" by Pa...
Rodney Brown - Typescenes
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast I read and talked about Rodney A. Brown's Typescenes. Links below to the poet's book, website and accompanying performance. ...
Kayla Rodney - Swimming Home
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I discuss Kayla Rodney's 2019 poetry collection "Swimming Home." As the title suggests the poems are about water but also New Orleans,...
Nikki Dolson - Love and Other Criminal Behavior
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the podcast I am discussing Nikki Dolson's 2020 book, a collection of short stories, "Love and Other Criminal Behavior." Here's a link to th...
bell hooks - We Real Cool
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the podcast I am discussing bell hook's 2004 book about Black masculinity, "We Real Cool." Here's a link to the poem which inspired the titl...
Jesmyn Ward - Sing, Unburied, Sing
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion of Jesmyn Ward's 2017 novel "Sing, Unburied, Sing."