Show overview
Check Us Out has published 5 episodes during 2021. That works out to roughly 3 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a monthly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 29 min and 40 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-language Education show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 5.1 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. Published by Check Us Out: MPL.
From the publisher
Check Us Out covers books and all things library.
Latest Episodes
May 2021 - Hiatus
A message from our director, Peter Coyl, about our podcast going on hiatus.
May 2021 - Book Talk Discussion
This month's episode is from an Instagram Live session where Adrienne, Ken, and Kiersten discuss books they loved and ones they did not! Books discussed: Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas Standing at the Scratchlines by Guy Johnson Echoes of a Distant Summer by Guy Johnson
March 2021 - Author Valerie Wilson Wesley
This month Selwa interviews local author Valerie Wilson Wesley on her recent book, "A Glimmer of Death." Books discussed: A Glimmer of Death by Valerie Wilson Wesley The Tamara Hayle mystery series by Valerie Wilson Wesley The Talk: Conversations About Race, Love & Truth edited by Wade Hudson & Cheryl Willis Hudson
Feb 2021 - African American History Month, Award Winning Recommendations, Author Gabrielle Glaser
Maurice highlights African American History Month, career development, and leisure programs. Molly talks about four Open Book/Open Mind events as well as a few more. Kiersten shares fiction titles that won Youth Media Awards in 2021 that are available digitally or physically in our collection. Ken shares new February adult fiction titles. Adrienne explores the beginning of There There by Tommy Orange. Ariel interviews local author Gabrielle Glaser on her new book, "American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption." Books Discussed: A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. Masood The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles Blood Grove by Walter Mosley Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibrim X. Kindi Everything Sad Is Untrue (a true story, by Daniel Nayeri Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh We Are Not Free by Tracy Chee All the Days Past, All the Days to Come,” by Mildred D. Taylor Legendborn by Tracy Deonn This is My Brain in Love by I. W. Gregorio Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez We Are Not from Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender This Light Between Us, by Andrew Fukuda They Went Left by Monica Hesse X: A Novel, by Kekla Magoon, co-written by Ilyasah Shabazz How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon Fire in the Streets by Kekla Magoon
Jan 2021 - Adult School Winter Classes Begin, Exciting New Adult Novels, Author Jessica Henry
In the January edition of Check Us Out: Molly discusses upcoming business and author programs in January and February as well as Creativebug. Maurice talks about the Winter classes beginning Tuesday January 19. Ken gets excited about this month's new adult releases. Kiersten promotes new YA releases all available as either Ebooks or Eaudio. Adrienne dives deep into "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents". Selwa interviews local author Jessica Henry, author of "Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened." Books discussed: The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene by Richard Greene Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion A Swim in the Pond in the Rain by George Saunders The Fall of America Journals by Allen Ginsberg That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry The Cousins by Karen McManus A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir It Only Happens in the Movies by Holly Bourne Admission by Julie Buxbaum Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson