This is a show about books and adaptations and one subject we’ve returned to a couple of times is who gets to tell stories. Today we’re continuing our discussion of Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff. Now, Matt is white, and the adaptation now on HBO counts Misha Green and Jordan Peele among its executive producers. And that is significant because not only are these black creators taking control of a black story, but also Jordan Peele helped to give us the language to be able to talk about this. I mean, Get Out is iconic for a reason.

This is part two of our discussion, jump back an episode if you want to start at the beginning.

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Next week we’ll move from telling black stories through sci-fi to telling black stories in young adult literature with The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas.