Episode #273:CHOP SUEY: Hybrid work, Boba tea, and MacArthur Genius Grants
Grace and Alvina have an odds and ends episode where they discuss hybrid work vs full remote work, the controversy surrounding the company Bobba and actor Simu Liu, and how they would use the money if they won the MacArthur Genius Grant. Then Alison Morris joins to share some book recommendations.
How have you been?
Alvina has been inspired by Grace getting all of her vaccines at the same time, so she made an appointment for after work and got them done! There was a slight fever and she was wondering if that may have been from the Shingles vaccine. Aside from those, she had a very novel weekend doing very novel things! Grace and her family went to Boston to see the Boston Lights!
Chop Suey!
The book friends talk about Hachette Book group’s decision to go back to the office 3 days a week instead of two days a week.
Discussion of “Simu Liu Called Out a Boba Company for Cultural Appropriation—Here’s Why It Needed to Be Said”
Mitali Perkins was nominated for The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award! What would you do with money won from a book award?
Alison Morris Book Recs!
Shawn Harris’s new picture book: Let’s Be Bee’s
Umami by Jacob Grant
THANK YOU!
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