Jennifer Szalai features Bridgett M. Davis’ new memoir on the NYT Book Podcast. The podcast highlights TWATFD at the 57:40 mark.
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Read Excerpt from TWATFD In The Detroit Metro Times
In this excerpt, Davis explores the role Numbers played in the Detroit economy.
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Davis Talks With Hometown Newspaper About TWATFD
Detroit Free Press’ Ellen Piligian interviews Davis about her new memoir The World According To Fannie Davis. Davis speaks about what her mother’s role as a number runner taught her: “No matter what you do, do it with integrity. … People really wanted to play with her because they could trust her.”
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Davis on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross
Davis Discusses with Terry Gross the illegal lottery/Numbers economy, which she details in her new memoir The World According To Fannie Davis. “…it was an actual economy. People were employed by the big numbers men, as they called themselves. They had various jobs that they performed. And then you had all of your different levels of customers – small bettors and big bettors.”
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Davis Opins For The New York Times: My Mother Was A Betting Woman
Davis’ New York Times essay details her mother’s profession and view on life. “She distinguished between what she called “foolish, throw your life away” gambling and the smart kind. She taught me that a gamble ought not to be reckless. It ought to be calculated, but not avoided altogether. The bigger the risk, the bigger your purpose needs to be.”
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Davis For Literary Hub On Her Family’s Journey From The South To Detroit.
Davis delves into her family’s roots in Nashville in her essay for Literary Hub, One Family’s Story Of The Great Migration North. She writes: “I wonder too if they migrated in part because of incidents of violence against blacks attempting to vote … Did it make them speed up their migration plans, or confirm the rightness of their choice to leave their birthplace, to join others and get the hell out of the South?”
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Davis Talks With Joshunda Sanders On Bookstr Livestream
Bridgett M. Davis speaks about her new memoir, The World According To Fannie Davis, with Bookstr‘s Joshunda Sanders on FaceBook Livestream.
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TWATFD A Top-10 Recommended Book By The NYT
The New York Times included The World According To Fannie Davis as one of the “10 New Books We Recommend This Week.”
