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Mike Kim When Zakiya Dalila Harris left her job as an assistant editor at Penguin Random House to devote more time to her debut novel, she never envisioned that her book would become the highly sought-after object of a fourteen-bidder auction, culminating in a splashy seven figure deal and a Hulu series adaptation. “When I was writing the novel, I never thought this would happen,” Harris told Esquire. “I just wanted to finish a book.” The Other Black Girl made waves not just for the enormity of the deal, but for its promise to put book publishing on notice. The novel trains an unfl...

By staging Kathleen Collins’s rich psychological portraits of Black women, a theatrical group aims to enlighten, heal and inspire.

May 25, 2021 Danielle Evans THE WASHINGTON POST – Dawnie Walton’s debut novel is a dazzling triumph. Framed as an oral history, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev relies on a collage of voices to tell the story of Opal Jewel and Nev Charles, artists who got their start as an interracial duo in the 70s. Their first album was struggling when a violent tragedy drew the spotlight to them. That moment of fame as a duo was short-lived – Nev, “a goofy white English boy”, turned to more commercially popular music and sailed to solo superstardom; Opal, “an outcast Black girl from Detroit�...

The award-winning author of ‘Severance’ on ‘Motherhood’, Jamaica Kincaid, and the cooking lesson she got from Toni Morrison.

Counter Craft The long and short of novel lengths Share We like to pretend that art is art. That an author writes what they are inspired to write, with no concern but the voice of the muse. This is a useful fiction. It is good for writers to focus on the art when writing and worry about the business side later. But it is a fiction. Writers are aware of market demands, what kinds of novels get buzz, and what subjects award judges gravitate towards. Even writers with high artistic aspirations are—consciously or unconsciously—warped by these pressures. Especially those of us hoping to make...