Happy Pub Day!

(Non)Fiction Friday: 'Is it not magical and inexplicable that we transform imagination into marks on a page?' From 'Sorting through the Wreckage: The Stories of Diane Oliver' by Arizona State University alum Tayari Jones. Read the essay The Paris Review: ow.ly/2Hl250QuEW3 #ASUHumanities

Radcliffe's NYT obituary. I appreciate the respect it give him and his work. But it doesn't quite *get* his spirit. nytimes.com/2023/11/20/art…

Radcliffe Bailey is GONE.

I'm glad I got to tell him how much I loved his work.

May he rest in love and eternal peace.

What Does It Mean to Be Southern?: Artist Radcliffe Bailey on the 'Global' American South newblackmaninexile.net/2017/01/what-d…

my mama called it “mad money”. this was feminism for people who don’t use the word feminism.

Nobody:

Chicago: Imma be January for Halloween

totally here for you.

writers thank you.

ICYMI: I still can't believe I was on Fresh Air, discussing my new book OUR SECRET SOCIETY! Wow!
TY Tonya Mosley! 🥰

You can listen to the full interview here.

Please consider buying the book and telling a friend or co-worker about it!!!

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Duplex

this is a superb collection! I cant believe I had never heard of her. when you read this, and learn that she died so young, you will mourn all the stories she never wrote.

Continuing our BHM reading list with Women’s Prize winner An American Marriage by Tayari Jones which is a profoundly insightful story about wrongful incarceration, racial injustice and a couple unmoored by forces beyond their control.

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I'm excited to share that my second novel, THIS GREAT HEMISPHERE (FKA as 'Invisible Faces'), will officially be out next summer via Dutton Books! New publisher. New agent. But same incredible, hall of fame-worthy editor, PGB. Much love, and more soon.
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What I realized about mysteries from Tayari Jones and writing cozy mysteries with some soul and depth via CrimeReads

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From the new issue of Copper Nickel (one of my favorite journals)

Trust the librarian! 😊

What are y’all reading and watching this weekend? I just cracked this one open and I’m already blown away…

It’s the anniversary of my mom’s death.I know she’d be proud of this #memoir .I wrote it 4 her & 4 my daughter & 4 my long line of feminist ancestors-some who lived outside rules b4 their time, & some, like my mom, who died b4 their time. But all of whom made everything possible