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Today: A talk with professor Danzy Senna on her new novel, Colored Television.
The talented @PKhakpour is our special guest tomorrow! Read more on her work below, and sign up for our Thursday event with Danzy Senna and @FreemanReads—you don't want to miss it!
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I Love Hearing Your Dreams is out in a week, would love to see you all! @ScribnerBooks matthewzapruder.substack.com…
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Award-winning author and @USCDornsife Professor Danzy Senna has a new book about race, identity, the entertainment industry, and Los Angeles. She'll be in conversation with @CalBookClub on Sept 19.
RSVP below for the free webinar--
Mark your calendars! Join us Thursday, September 19, at 5 p.m. PT for an engaging conversation between Danzy Senna and @freemanreads, with @PKhakpour as a special guest! Discover more about “Colored Television” in this free Zoom event.
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Join USC Dornsife professor of English Danzy Senna on September 19 for a talk with @CalBookClub and special guest @PKhakpour to discuss her new novel, Colored Television.
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Mix this unusual and lovely cocktail for the @CalBookClub’s event with author Danzy Senna. altaonline.com/california-bo…
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Wrote about Danzy Senna’s excellent new novel for @CalBookClub.
For the book club, @justlikebeirut explores how Danzy Senna's "Colored Television" defies easy categorization, addressing race, class, and the complexities of biracial identity through biting wit and nuanced critique.
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Excited to have Danzy Senna here in Houston September 30! Tickets on sale now: inprinthouston.org/event/inp…
"I start with revenge but aspire toward something murkier, where the joke is not on the other but on myself—and on the reader, too."
Danzy Senna shares why she writes with the California Book Club.
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If you haven’t picked up this month’s pick—“Under the Feet of Jesus”—@davidulin shares why you should.
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For the @CalBookClub, author Jaime Cortez, who grew up in a farmworker family, considers the stories of roadside vendors. altaonline.com/california-bo…
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I loved this book and was thrilled to get to write about why!
For this week’s book review, @zanopticon takes a look at @RufiThorpe’s “Margo’s Got Money Troubles.”
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Read a passage from Helena María Viramontes’s novel, the @CalBookClub’s August selection. altaonline.com/california-bo…
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@EB_Booksellers was destroyed by a fire yesterday. If you love books, please consider supporting their Go Fund Me gofundme.com/f/help-east-bay…
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Author Venita Blackburn, special guest Myriam Gurba, and host John Freeman had a wise and funny conversation last night about the July @calbookclub selection, memory, Long Beach, and the “edge of salvation and destruction.” altaonline.com/california-bo…
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In today's @CalBookClub, newsletter, we introduce cultural critic and memoirist @lesbrains, who will join author @VenitaBlackburn and host @FreemanReads to discuss "Dead in Long Beach, California" later this week. altaonline.com/california-bo…
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Novelist Venita Blackburn contemplates expectation, the self, and gender in the internet age.
Read @steffantriplett on "Dead in Long Beach, California" for the @calbookclub: altaonline.com/california-bo…
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Novelist Venita Blackburn contemplates expectation, the self, and gender in the internet age. altaonline.com/california-bo…
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Summer reads are in full swing!
Check out these 12 titles by writers on the West.
@ChuckTingle @ChrisGullette_ @rj_goodrich @ksongwrites @SomaMeiSheng @pchoulahan @byjessekatz altaonline.com/books/g612385…
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For the @CalBookClub critic and poet @accommodatingly examines Venita Blackburn’s book, "Dead in Long Beach, California," interrogating and locating its choices, movements, and predecessors. altaonline.com/california-bo…
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“If this story had been told from any other perspective, I would have found it nearly impossible to root for Coral or find her likable. But Blackburn’s analytical chorus trains me instead to study her—my moral compass is muted, switched off. ”
Thought this sounded cool!
"In classical Greek tragedies, choruses use a collective voice to comment on scenes and provide the audience with insights. The distinctly futuristic and nonhuman chorus that sings through Dead in Long Beach, CA operates in a similar way." (@TaylorByas3)
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I’m getting back in my scholarly book-talk bag! I have an essay on @VenitaBlackburn’s incredible novel, DEAD IN LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA, out today! ❤️
"The narrative distance of the chorus constricts my emotional space as a reader, but it also finds another way to surprise and startle," writes @TaylorByas3 on our book club pick, "Dead in Long Beach, California" by @VenitaBlackburn.
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"Books that amplify the voices of women from diverse backgrounds contribute to a more nuanced understanding of women’s experiences."
Delighted to see this article about Betty, WTAW’s imprint, by Elizabeth Casillas at Alta Journal.
#bettybooks #womenwriters
Following its first anniversary, @peg_a_pursell, the founder of Betty, shares the imprint’s motivations and unique publishing partnerships with female authors, as well as the distribution challenges for a small press.
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