New book by host of NPR's 'Pop Culture Happy Hour'

Aisha Harris, co-host of NPR’s “Pop Culture Happy Hour,” recently released her first collection of essays about the pop culture that helped form her worldview.

“Wannabe: Reckoning with the Pop Culture that Shapes Me” is a memoir in nine essays, each of which unpacks a different pop-cultural trope and examines its capacity to shape us as individuals and as a society.

“The way my brain works is that I have different pop culture references bubbling in my brain all the time and this book kind of feels like that, but still connects things in a way I think people will relate to,” said Harris.