Day: October 21, 2021

  • Love’s Perils, Trauma’s Wounds: New Story Collections The New York Times 2021-10-15 Tracy O’Neill THE RUIN OF EVERYTHING By Lara Stapleton 123 pp. Paloma Press. Paper, $18. If love conquers all, in Stapleton’s second story collection it’s not clear then whether anyone wins much of anything from it. There is plenty of sex in this…

  • In South Carolina, a state with a painful legacy of racism, a white lawmaker on Thursday fired off an email that casually challenged the complexion of a Black Reconstruction-era lawmaker, whose portrait now hangs in a place of honor inside the State House.

  • In this article, I provide a close reading of Season 1 of the neo-Victorian TV series “Carnival Row” as both an ambivalent postcolonial and neo-passing narrative.

  • Black women writers have long used passing stories to crack our façades of race, class, and gender.

  • [Rebecca] Hall’s film [Passing] has cracked open a public conversation about colorism, privilege and secrets. On Twitter, people are sharing stories and black-and-white photographs of a grandmother’s cousins who moved out of state, great-aunts who sneaked back to see their family in secret, relatives who lost their jobs when co-workers informed management about their identities:…

  • The stories in “Personal Attention Roleplay” are propelled by queer loneliness, mixed-race confusion, late capitalist despondency, and the pitfalls of intimacy.

  • The Ruin of Everything Paloma Press 2021-10-19 126 pages 5.98 X 9.02 X 0.3 inches 0.43 pounds Paperback ISBN: 978-1734496550 Lara Stapleton The Ruin of Everything tells tales of abandoned children living in adult bodies. Bastards, bi-racial half-siblings, and orphans raised by aunts, they lose their last best love through brokenness like “the impossible loop…

  • My Monticello, Fiction Henry Holt & Company (an imprint of Macmillan) 2021-10-05 240 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781250807151 e-Book ISBN: 9781250807168 Audiobook ISBN: 9781250820723 Compact Disk ISBN: 9781250820716 Jocelyn Nicole Johnson A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting…