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Shoshana von Blanckensee

Sunday, June 29, 2025
1:00pm Pacific Time
KQED Broadcast: 06/29/2025, 07/01/2025, 07/02/2025

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Shoshana von Blanckensee is the author of the newly published novel Girls Girls Girls. It follows Hannah, a young queer Jewish woman, as she embarks on a cross-country journey with her high school girlfriend traveling from Long Island, New York, to San Francisco, in search of acceptance and a vibrant queer community. 

Poulomi Saha is an english professor and the co-Director of the Program in Critical Theory at UC Berkeley. They are currently at work on their second book, Fascination, which investigates the obsession with, and fear of, Indian spirituality across American history, touching on everything from Thomas Jefferson to the docuseries Wild, Wild Country.