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Season 3: Episode 3 | Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929)

The stories behind the reception to Larsen’s novel.

What can we learn about the differences among the eleven novels Toni Morrison published when we consider her word usage?

A fresh conceptual framework emerges that gives us tools to discover unique ways to engage with classic novels, like Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon.

A brief narrative about Ernest Gaines’s novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman being adapted into a movie and becoming an instant classic.

Who would’ve thought that a joke-telling novelist would have one of the largest vocabularies in African American literature?

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

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?