Season 1: Episode 7 | The Largest Vocabulary in African American Literature
Have you ever wondered about the African American novels with the largest vocabularies? A look at literary data offers some answers.
Season 1: Episode 6 | 3 Novels, 3 Years: Pauline Hopkins
Pauline Hopkins published three novels in three years. How did she do it?
Season 1: Episode 5 | Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone
Sometimes a novel proves controversial, and the writer finds herself in a courtroom.
Season 1: Episode 4 | Richard Wright’s Infamous Review
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.
Season 1: Episode 3 | Toni Morrison’s Beloved
The story of how Black writers and intellectuals made sure that Toni Morrison’s novel would be acknowledged for decades.
Season 1: Episode 2 | Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
Understanding the reception to Ward’s novel.
Season 1: Episode 1 | Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad
The extraordinary reception to a novel about an escape from slavery.