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A Literary Night in West Philadelphia
We’re in the narrow living room of a Victorian row house in West Philadelphia. It’s the first day that really feels like summer, which in Philly can be surprisingly swamp-like. My husband, who spent...
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Young Black Writers: After Michael Brown
I have spent a considerable amount of time in Johannesburg, South Africa, where my mother’s family lives, and once, years ago, I saw something that would stick with me forever after. While driving on...
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Where Is Our Black Avant Garde?
I’ve always been drawn to books with odd arrangements of words. Perhaps it’s because I came to literature as what I believed to be an outsider. I was in college, 19 and over my head at an Ivy League...
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What It Means To Be an Inclusive Literary Journal
In 2010, I was part of a group of writers of color that founded Apogee Journal, the literary magazine that serves writers of marginalized identities—including race, gender, sexuality, class, and...
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The Freedom to Defy Expectations: An Interview with Zinzi Clemmons
This interview originally appeared in Issue 09 of Apogee. Zinzi Clemmons’ What We Lose (Viking, July 11, 2017) subverts our expectations of the novel, weaving autofiction, online media, hand-drawn...
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22 of Your Favorite Writers on What to Read This Summer
Depending on where you live, it may have been feeling like summer for some time now (or it may still be sweater weather—and if so, I am sorry), but as of today, it is officially the sunniest season,...
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5 Books Making News This Week: Mothers, Memoirs, and Military Women
This year’s fiction and nonfiction longlists for the Brooklyn Library Literary Prize honor “books which—by subverting literary forms, pushing against established ways of thinking, or otherwise...
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The Ultimate Best Books of 2017 List
It’s the end of the year, and everybody has an opinion. And of course, where there’s an opinion, there’s a listicle. The river of Best of 2017 lists can be exhausting this time of year, so as a public...
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Literary Hub’s Favorite Books of 2017
Emily Temple, Senior Editor Amelia Gray, Isadora: I am not someone who reads historical fiction, particularly. But I am someone who reads everything Amelia Gray writes, and I can tell you that Isadora...
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Counting Down the Top Literary News Stories of 2017: 20 to 11
20. J.D. Vance starts to think he really does understand the white working class. The “working class”—that specious, politicized euphemism for a mythical class of “white people” who all look like...
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A Literary Night in West Philadelphia
We’re in the narrow living room of a Victorian row house in West Philadelphia. It’s the first day that really feels like summer, which in Philly can be surprisingly swamp-like. My husband, who spent...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Young Black Writers: After Michael Brown
I have spent a considerable amount of time in Johannesburg, South Africa, where my mother’s family lives, and once, years ago, I saw something that would stick with me forever after. While driving on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Where Is Our Black Avant Garde?
I’ve always been drawn to books with odd arrangements of words. Perhaps it’s because I came to literature as what I believed to be an outsider. I was in college, 19 and over my head at an Ivy League...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What It Means To Be an Inclusive Literary Journal
In 2010, I was part of a group of writers of color that founded Apogee Journal, the literary magazine that serves writers of marginalized identities—including race, gender, sexuality, class, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Freedom to Defy Expectations: An Interview with Zinzi Clemmons
This interview originally appeared in Issue 09 of Apogee. Zinzi Clemmons’ What We Lose (Viking, July 11, 2017) subverts our expectations of the novel, weaving autofiction, online media, hand-drawn...
View ArticleClik here to view.
22 of Your Favorite Writers on What to Read This Summer
Depending on where you live, it may have been feeling like summer for some time now (or it may still be sweater weather—and if so, I am sorry), but as of today, it is officially the sunniest season,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
5 Books Making News This Week: Mothers, Memoirs, and Military Women
This year’s fiction and nonfiction longlists for the Brooklyn Library Literary Prize honor “books which—by subverting literary forms, pushing against established ways of thinking, or otherwise...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Ultimate Best Books of 2017 List
It’s the end of the year, and everybody has an opinion. And of course, where there’s an opinion, there’s a listicle. The river of Best of 2017 lists can be exhausting this time of year, so as a public...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Literary Hub’s Favorite Books of 2017
Emily Temple, Senior Editor Amelia Gray, Isadora: I am not someone who reads historical fiction, particularly. But I am someone who reads everything Amelia Gray writes, and I can tell you that Isadora...
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