Season 11: Episode 2 | Ann Petry’s The Street
A short take on Ann Petry’s The Street.
Season 10: Episode 6 | Toni Morrison’s Statement About Writing & Revision
A short take on an alternative way of understanding a popular Toni Morrison quotation.
Season 10: Episode 3 | Wayetu Moore’s She Would Be King
A short take on Wayetu Moore’s debut novel about a redheaded Black woman with supernatural powers.
Season 9: Episode 3 | Quantifying African American Novel Ratings on Goodreads
A short take on African American novel ratings on Goodreads.
Season 8: Episode 3 | Marc Olden, A Prolific, Largely Unknown Novelist
A short take on Marc Olden — a prolific, less well-known novelist.
Season 7: Episode 7 | Waiting to Exhale Film Adaptation
A short take on the adaption of the novel Waiting to Exhale into a film.
Season 7: Episode 5 | HBW’s Novel Collection
A short take on the expansive novel collection amassed by the History of Black Writing (HBW), created by Maryemma Graham.
Season 7: Episode 1 | One of the Smartest Characters in African American Fiction
A short take on a character that many readers view as one of the smartest characters in African American fiction.
Season 6: Episode 5 | Read Black Novels, Find Harriet Jacobs’s Legacy
Among the most taught, most discussed, most notable novels by Black women, we can trace Harriet Jacobs’s legacy.
Season 6: Episode 3 | The Bluest Eye Doesn’t Go Down Easy
Are the people who ban books ever right, if only by accident?