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Reverse-Gentrification of the Literary World

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Featured: Black Interest

Zero O’Clock

For sixteen-year-old Geth Montego, zero o’clock begins on March 11, 2020. By June, she wonders if it will ever end.

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Tender Headed

Tender Headed, selected by Camille Rankine as a winner of the 2022 National Poetry Series, is a musical and formally playful meditation on Black identity and masculinity

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Kingston Noir (Jamaica)

Following in the Caribbean footsteps of Haiti Noir and Trinidad Noir, now come dark stories from Jamaica’s capital city.

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Upcoming Events

Tananarive Due — LitFest in the Dena (Altadena, CA)

5/4/24, 5:00pm

For the Love of Horror featuring Tananarive Due in conversation with Jervey Tervalon: Tananarive Due and Jervey Tervalon share their views about the rise of the black horror sub-genre into mainstream media. Is it a modern-day reinvention? Although contributions to horror have been largely ignored, Black writers have been pioneers of the genre since the […]

Jerry Stahl — LitFest in the Dena (Altadena, CA)

5/4/24, 2:00pm

Jerry Stahl presents Nein, Nein, Nein! in conversation with Julie Parker, author of The Yoke, A Memoir of Love and Psychosis; moderated by Dick Rubin

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