How To Hear Music Grow up with music—Sam & Dave and Dionne Warwick, The Temptations, The Supremes. MC Hammer, Michael Jackson, Teena Teena, Boys II Men. As a kid dance the electric slide with your cousins at weddings, and then, once you’ve moved south with your parents, re-learn. This time with a grape vine, the […]
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Afro-Puerto Ricans encompass a dual heritage that provides a rich and unique cultural perspective. “Now We Will Be Happy” (University of Nebraska Press, $16.95) is a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Ricans, U.S. mainland-born Puerto Ricans and displaced native Puerto Ricans who are living between spaces while attempting to navigate the unique culture that […]
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You Can Feel It Like a Demon, Swallowing You Slow: An Interview with Marlon James By Andrew Ervin | August 13th, 2014 – 09:00 am Marlon James is no longer a promising writer. He’s no longer a writer of enormous potential. That’s because his third novel A Brief History of Seven Killings places him securely among our most vital contemporary […]
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“I write first and foremost because the stories I grew up reading in school bore no resemblance to world of my family and my community. Those stories did not tell about the way the sun fell on my grandmother’s hands as she handed me my fresh bread and butter breakfast every morning or the smell […]
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joyland south Waiting LATOYA WATKINS Vashti read the bear policy posted at the start of the trail twice before she decided to walk with us. She made one command. “If we gone do this shit, y’all can’t pull out no snacks, no water, no nothing. Ain’t no bear bout to fuck with me. Y’all asses […]
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A. Nicole Kelly in DRUNKEN BOAT
How To Hear Music Grow up with music—Sam & Dave and Dionne Warwick, The Temptations, The Supremes. MC Hammer, Michael Jackson, Teena Teena, Boys II Men. As a kid dance the electric slide with your cousins at weddings, and then, once you’ve moved south with your parents, re-learn. This time with a grape vine, the […]
NOW WE WILL BE HAPPY reviewed in the Philadelphia Tribune
Afro-Puerto Ricans encompass a dual heritage that provides a rich and unique cultural perspective. “Now We Will Be Happy” (University of Nebraska Press, $16.95) is a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Ricans, U.S. mainland-born Puerto Ricans and displaced native Puerto Ricans who are living between spaces while attempting to navigate the unique culture that […]
Marlon James in TIN HOUSE
You Can Feel It Like a Demon, Swallowing You Slow: An Interview with Marlon James By Andrew Ervin | August 13th, 2014 – 09:00 am Marlon James is no longer a promising writer. He’s no longer a writer of enormous potential. That’s because his third novel A Brief History of Seven Killings places him securely among our most vital contemporary […]
Author Coe Booth on ATC
Kinda Like Brothers author Coe Booth discusses her new children’s book and how her job as a caseworker informed her writing.
Dahlma Says
“I write first and foremost because the stories I grew up reading in school bore no resemblance to world of my family and my community. Those stories did not tell about the way the sun fell on my grandmother’s hands as she handed me my fresh bread and butter breakfast every morning or the smell […]
BuzzFeed’s Heben Nigatu Welcomes You to “the mocha-chocolate-coffee-bean-exotic-butterscotch-caramel-cinnamon-cafe-au-lait side of town.”
For those interested in culturally-specific craft… If White Characters Were Described Like People Of Color In Literature
NPR Story #3: The Book Business
How To Sell Diverse Books: A Bookstore Owner’s Advice Featuring an interview with writer Jacqueline Woodson, pictured with this post.
NPR/ATC Story #2: Diversity in the Publishing World
To Achieve Diversity In Publishing, A Difficult Dialogue Beats Silence
NPR on Cultural Diversity in MFA Programs
Some months later, NPR produces the first of two stories in response to Junot Diaz “MFA vs. POC”
Latoya Watkins in JOYLAND SOUTH
joyland south Waiting LATOYA WATKINS Vashti read the bear policy posted at the start of the trail twice before she decided to walk with us. She made one command. “If we gone do this shit, y’all can’t pull out no snacks, no water, no nothing. Ain’t no bear bout to fuck with me. Y’all asses […]