The Book ClubWAS THERE A dignified way to happen upon your dead father’s lover? If so,I imagined it wasn’t blurting […]
The Book Club Chapter: January & Augustus’s Secret Writing Prompt Read Post »
The Labradors “SWEAR YOU CAN do this, January,” Anya was saying as I zoomed out of town. “If I promise
Sand, Sea, and a Pair of Labs Read Post »
The Mouth THE WORST PART of being college rivals with Gus Everett? Probably the fact that I wasn’t sure he
“Gus’s Side of the Street”), Read Post »
The Pete-Cute I AWOKE, HEAD THROBBING, to a text from Anya: Hey, babycakes! Wanted to make sure you got my
Meet Cute or Meet Catastrophe? Read Post »
I WASN’T READY TO look through the rest of the house, so I settled down at the table to write.
The Ferlin’s Secret Read Post »
I HAVE A FATAL flaw.I like to think we all do. Or at least that makes it easier for me
The Sceptic and the Sweetheart(beach read) Read Post »
Homegoing exemplifies how the history of institutionalized racism scripts Black American lives like a preordained fate similar, but also crucially
Forgive Your Mother? Memory, Redemption, and the Sense of an Ending Read Post »
In 1913, W.E.B. Du Bois commissioned the artist Meta Fuller to produce a sculpture in celebration of the 50th anniversary
“The Gnarled Fingers of Fate”: Curse Temporalities and the Question of Agency Read Post »
Homegoing is not primarily invested in aptly conveying the horrors of chattel slavery. Instead, the novel aims to capture a
“An Accumulation of Time”: Writing Time as History Read Post »
As Dalley states in his study of the postcolonial historical novel, “just as contests over the meaning of history forced
The Other Problem of History: What Cannot Be Represented
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