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Let’s Talk About the Fantasy of the Writer’s Lifestyle

Let’s talk about the fantasy of the “writer’s lifestyle.” Most writers and most readers are familiar with the basics: the writer is typically an educated person of modest ba…

Jacaranda to publish love triangle novella by Fields

Jacaranda has acquired a “witty, heartfelt and sometimes gut-wrenching” romance novella, titled With Your Bad Self, by the US author Kerika Fields.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. on What Makes a “Classic” African American Text

I have long nurtured a deep and abiding affection for the Penguin Classics, at least since I was an undergraduate at Yale. I used to imagine that my attraction for these books—grouped together, as …

5 books to read next, according to Read With Jenna author Mateo Askaripour

"You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll feel immense gratitude," Askaripour said of one of his picks.

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A Black Education

Remembering Greg Tate, critical giant, author, Flyboy, and my teacher.