Venturing into identity and color, one word at a time
The best recommendations I’ve ever gotten for new books or writers have come to me not from fellow readers, but from the authors whose stories have stayed with me over the years. I had heard Audre Lorde’s name before as an English major at UVA, but I never sought out any of her work until …
Continue reading Let’s Joyfully Destroy That Patriarchy: Recommendation of Sister Outsider
Reading is highly subjective. We all know this. So for me, the stories that I love most are those that allow the ordinary, everyday experiences of human life to commune with the divine. Writers whose stories oscillate easily between micro and macro, and who center their characters, real or fictional, with feet firmly rooted in …
Continue reading There’s A New MJ in Town: Recommendation of This Will Be My Undoing
