Black Chick Lit

Hosted ByDanielle & Mollie

Black Chick Lit is a twice-monthly podcast that talks books by and for black women. Join Dani and Mollie as they talk prose, drink wine and laugh at their own jokes.


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BCL Chat: The Outrage Machine and Book Publishing

Hey, readers. Life really came and kicked some of us in the teeth, but we’re back, we got all our shots and we’re talking books.
Bad news is good news, it turns out. Join us as we catch up, talk Simon & Schuster’s complete lack of f

Episode 41: The Cartel

Happy 2021, lovely listeners! It’s our favorite time of the year: Urban Fic Month. (Okay, so we were still a little hungover from 2020 and this episode is a tad late. Forgive us!)
This year, we read a classic: The Cartel by Ashley & JaQuavis. T

BLC Chat: Hindsight is 2020

We’re wrapping up 2020 by talking about all the things we did (and didn’t do) to keep our heads above water. Sister Sister marathon anyone?
Topics include:

Dr. Jill Biden
Booktube shenanigans
a campaign to get Dani to play Mass Effect
Mollie saying Dall

Episode 40: Cinderella is Dead ft. Colored Pages Book Club Podcast

This month, Ako & Marci from The Colored Pages Book Club drop by to talk Cinderella is Dead by Kaylnn Brown.This episode is bringing Big Pieces (and Pisces Moon) energy, ya’ll.  We talk pig infrastructure, we sympathize with evil witches and we ask,

Episode 39: When No One is Watching

What’s this? Another special guest?!
This week we read When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole, and we’re not gonna lie, the discussion goes in some weird places (apologies in advance to Robo X).  This is a thriller and it’s SPOILER FREE YA’LL, so you rea

Episode 38: The Boyfriend Project ft. Farrah Rochon

We’re back and we have another special guest joining us this week! (Honestly, we’re not used to being so popular.)
This episode, we read The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochon, and got to chat about the book with the author herself.
She spoke

Episode 37: Take a Hint, Dani Brown ft. Talia Hibbert

We got a real treat for y’all this episode! We read Take a Hint, Dani Brown, by Talia Hibbert, and were joined by the author herself for a conversation about everything including her move from indie publishing to traditional, the Black Lives Matter

Episode 36: Heaven, My Home

Hi, y’all. A few things before we get to the episode:

Thank you for being so patient as we get episodes out. Between motherhood, a pandemic, a cancer diagnosis and failing technology, things have been rough.
This episode was recorded before the mu

Episode 35: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Urban Lit Month continues? We read Their Eyes We’re Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston and couldn’t help but spot a few similarities between Janie Crawford and a few of other past heroines. (*cough* Zoe *cough*)
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