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Season 2: Episode 4 | Reading Jesmyn Ward at Parchman

Men of various backgrounds and identities who are all incarcerated at Parchman met weekly to discuss Jesmyn Ward’s novel.

Why did Octavia Butler become so popular on Wikipedia in 2018?

Key responses to a murder mystery published in the early twentieth century.

The multifaceted responses to Walker’s novel.

Have you ever wondered about the African American novels with the largest vocabularies? A look at literary data offers some answers.

Pauline Hopkins published three novels in three years. How did she do it?

Sometimes a novel proves controversial, and the writer finds herself in a courtroom.

In October 1937, an aspiring, 29-year-old author wrote a negative assessment of a recently published novel. Here’s the story of what happened next.

The story of how Black writers and intellectuals made sure that Toni Morrison’s novel would be acknowledged for decades.

Understanding the reception to Ward’s novel.