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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
