LaToya Jordan is a writer from Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of the poetry chapbook, Thick-Skinned Sugar (Finishing Line Press, 2015) and her work has been listed as notable in Best American Essays 2016. Her writing has appeared in Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Mom Egg Review, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, and more. Visit her at latoyajordan.com.
While doing research for a book set in his hometown, Lagos, Nigeria, author Teju Cole (Open City) kept coming across these incidents in the newspapers of Lagos. Known in the…
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This week in New York, the Franklin Park and Belladonna Reading Series; Margaret Atwood on science fiction; Debut Fiction Reading with Teju Cole, Anna Solomon, and Rebecca Wolff; Henry Rollins…
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Have you ever had a fantasy involving a sexy male librarian? Yes? Check out Men of the Stacks. Library book thief nabbed by bookseller (and former high-school wrestler). The Millions…
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I thought I’d mix in some serious reading with the humorous for you: Interesting read in The Stranger on white people, Seattle, racism, and something called the Coalition of Anti-Racist…