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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - A Little Devil in America, by Hanif Abdurraqib
The celebrated author of Go Ahead in the Rain returns with a far-reaching collection of twenty essays, each one a remarkable synthesis of...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Libertie, by Kaitlyn Greenidge
Inspired by the life of one of the first Black female physicians in the United States, this mesmerizing novel begins in...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - What's Mine and Yours, by Naima Coster
Set in the foothills of North Carolina, Coster’s gripping sophomore novel centers on two mothers: Jade, a Black single mother striving to...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Fake Accounts, by Lauren Oyler
One of the year’s sharpest debut novels, Fake Accounts opens on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration, when a young woman snooping on...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Surviving the White Gaze, by Rebecca Carroll
Carroll’s searing memoir recounts her complicated childhood as the only Black person in a rural New Hampshire town, where even the love...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - High Cotton by Kristie Robin Johnson
Kristie Robin Johnson has lived nearly her whole life in small town Georgia, as did five generations of African American women before her...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - The Incredible Shrinking Woman by Athena Dixon
A quiet retelling of a life in the background, Athena Dixon’s debut essay collection, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, is a gentle...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - The Names of All the Flowers by Melissa Valentine
Set in rapidly gentrifying 1990s Oakland, this memoir—”poignant, painful, and gorgeous” (Alicia Garza)—explores siblinghood, adolescence,...
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