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The true tales of a Black-American journalist, reinventing herself as a novelist in Spain.
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For Your Consideration: Domestic Drama is the Book Category We’ve Always Loved But Didn’t Know Existed (opens the original)
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I mean it makes sense. I grew up snuggled up under my mom watching As the World Turns and The Guiding Light. It’s what we did after she picked me up from kindergarten. I may have only been five years old, but I was locked into the drama. <img a
Novel Interruptus (opens the original)
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Today is my first novel’s birthday. On this day, August 24, 2010, Substitute Me officially entered the world. At the time, I was the mother of two young boys, one year into my new career in academia – on the tenure track – and my husband had recently left his teaching job to go back to school to get his Ph.D. Suffice it to say, my mind wasn’t totally focused on the fact that my dream of one day becoming a famous novelist was finally coming true. But don’t get me wrong. I was happy. Check the rec
Shut Up and Read (opens the original)
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Note: This review originally appeared on the Reed, Write, & Create WebsiteWord workers, writers, and lovers of literature, you need to sit down, shut up, and read Shut Up and Read by Jeannine A. Cook. Subtitled, A Memoir from Harrietts Bookshop, a better subtitle would have been, A Memoir of Miracles and Literary Magic that Will Make You Believe in the Power of the Written Word. Yes, it is that powerful.<div class="subscription-wi
Resistance Requires Action (opens the original)
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Repeat after me. A I is not inevitable. (Note: For the purposes of this article, all AI is referring to Generative AI, aka plagiarism software.)AI is not inevitable unless you think resistance is a passive act. Unless you believe free will doesn’t exist. (Sorry, this one might hurt) Unless you’re too lazy to use your own brain. As a Black American woman, resistance is part of my ancestral arsenal for survival, but not everyone has the same DNA, so let’s review the basics.Than
Book Review: The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez (opens the original)
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One of my reading goals for 2026 is to read more books from my bookshelf. As a dedicated practitioner of Tsundoku, the Japanese art of collecting books even if you don’t intend on reading them, you can imagine how many unread books are on my shelves. That’s why I made this goal - to read from my own curated collection. Lucky for me, I have really good taste in books.Reading Without the HypeIn a previous post, I wrote about how I generally don’t like to read books when they first come out and are
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