What to Read When Celebrating Black History
Rumpus editors share a list of books to celebrate Black History Month!
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...moreMaurice Carlos Ruffin discusses his new story collection, THE ONES WHO DON’T SAY THEY LOVE YOU.
...moreKimberly Garrett Brown shares a reading list to celebrate CORA’S KITCHEN.
...moreDantiel W. Moniz discusses her debut story collection, MILK BLOOD HEAT.
...moreYxta Maya Murray discusses her new novel, ART IS EVERTHING.
...moreKelly Harris-DeBerry discusses her debut poetry collection, FREEDOM KNOWS MY NAME.
...more[W]hat was going wrong? Why were our stories not being written or published?
...moreMorgan Jerkins discusses her new book, WANDERING IN STRANGE LANDS.
...moreFenton Johnson discusses his new book, AT THE CENTER OF ALL BEAUTY.
...moreRumpus editors share their favorite writing that speaks to women’s history past, present, and future.
...moreMalcolm Tariq discusses his debut poetry collection, HEED THE HOLLOW.
...moreShonda Buchanan discusses her new memoir, BLACK INDIAN.
...moreMaking it to thirty seems unimaginable, yet it happens anyway.
...more“My novel tries to write the contributions of men and women of color back in.”
...moreMarcia Douglas discusses her forthcoming novel, THE MARVELLOUS EQUATIONS OF THE DREAD.
...moreMichelle Dean discusses Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion, literary legends, and the absence of Black writers from the narrative.
...moreIn celebration of our Floridian friends and family, we’ve compiled a list of great books that take place in, engage with, or otherwise visit the “Sunshine state.”
...moreThursday 5/11: The Writers in the Schools program at Grant High School hosts a student reading to share their semester of work. Broadway Books, 7 p.m., free. Jeff VanderMeer, author of Southern Reach Trilogy, reads from his new book, Borne, a story about two humans and two creatures. VanderMeer will be joined in conversation by […]
...moreTara Betts discusses her newest collection, Break the Habit, the burden placed on black women artists to be both artist and activist, and why writing is rooted in identity.
...moreMaybe I can touch it and show it to you. If I convince you, we can call it real. And then perhaps it will be.
...moreEmily Raboteau discusses her essay, “Know Your Rights!” from the collection, The Fire This Time, what she loves about motherhood, and why it’s time for White America to get uncomfortable.
...moreI don’t think it ever fully sunk in for me that I even live in America.
...moreHenry James found in the stories of Constance Fenimore Woolson “a remarkable minuteness of observation and tenderness of feeling on the part of one who evidently did not glance and pass, but lingered and analyzed.” There’s a roll call of rediscovered and canonical women writers at Salon. From Clarice Lispector and Lucia Berlin, to Zora Neale […]
...moreSometimes we bypass the classic novels on the way to the rich offering of current literary fiction. Fair enough; there is so much to love in today’s fiction. But once in a while, dust off a classic gem and consider the language, the depth, the metaphorical heft these books carry—along with being engrossing, powerful reads. Reading […]
...moreJosie Pickens talks about building relationships through blogging, changing the narrative around black women in America, and eradicating silence through storytelling.
...morePulitzer Prize-winning critic Margo Jefferson talks about her new memoir, Negroland, and about growing up in an elite black community in the segregated Chicago of the 1950s and 1960s.
...moreAt the Atlantic, Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House, discusses her struggle with writing about Detroit without having lived there, and how Zora Neale Hurston’s work helped her give herself permission to write outside her own experiences: It’s not about having a background that lines up with the characters you’re writing about, I realized. […]
...moreVan Vechten took to Zora Neale Hurston and especially to Langston Hughes. Biographies tell us that Hughes didn’t doubt Van Vechten’s sincerity, but he worried nevertheless how their connection would look in Harlem. Countee Cullen would eventually sit for Van Vechten, but in the 1920s, as a young black poet who believed he could write […]
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