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2 months ago | 
electricliterature.com | Danzy Senna |Charles Yu |Nafissa Thompson-Spires |Brando Skyhorse
Literary merit has, for generations, been viewed as synonymous with gravitas, solemnity, and not smiling in your author photo. This especially holds true for books that tackle the topic of race (because it’s always a “tackling”), which readers often crack open expecting to be educated or to cry.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
naturahoy.com | Jane Eastick |Sheila Heti |Francis Spufford |Danzy Senna
If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. In keeping with our annual tradition, we asked three of our critics for their favorite books of the last year. Between them, they chose 15 books, three of them reissues, and the majority fiction.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Danzy Senna |Curtis Sittenfeld |Lily King
For readers of White Oleander by Janet Finch, fans of Carson McCullers or Jane Smiley, Lily King’s Writers and Lovers is a big-hearted story of love and family, loss and grief. When Casey moved to Massachusetts in the summer of 1997, she had no partner, no job, and no clue what to do next. While waiting tables at a restaurant, working on a six-year-old manuscript, and falling in love with two different men, Casey is in crisis mode, and she’s doing her best not to flail.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
zip06.com | Danzy Senna
Colored Television by Danzy Senna Hilarious! And yet, while laughing, we’re thinking about the truth behind the jokes! Jane is excited that she has finished her second book, and she’s ready for the praise and glory since she “nailed” it. Well…things don’t go as planned, and she needs to come up with a new plan. A cultural comedy—when is it considered a sellout if you need to make a living? Lori, R.J. Julia Booksellers, Madison
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
time.com | Judy Berman |Danzy Senna
These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. By Judy BermanNovember 13, 2024 8:12 AM ESTEver since her 1998 debut novel, Caucasia, made her a standout author of her generation, Danzy Senna has been known for interrogating the experiences of mixed-race people like herself.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
zip06.com | Danzy Senna
Colored Television by Danzy Senna Hilarious! And yet while laughing, we’re thinking about the truth behind the jokes! Jane is excited that she has finished her second book and she’s ready for the praise and glory since she nailed it. Well…things don’t go as planned and she needs to come up with a new plan. This is a cultural comedy that asks: when is it considered a sellout, if you need to make a living? Lori, R.J. Julia Booksellers, Madison
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
audible.com | Sally Rooney |Yuval Harari |Danzy Senna |Richard Osman
Save this list and find it anytime by adding it to your Library Collections. Liane Moriarty always keeps me guessingBetween character, setting, and plot, I’m pretty much always a character person. And while the characters in Here One Moment are each fascinating and complex in their own right, I was blown away by Liane Moriarty’s plotting. The narrative is so intricately layered, each detail so carefully placed, that it left me awestruck.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
booklistonline.com | Danzy Senna
Sept. 2024. 288p. Riverhead, $29 (9780593544372); e-book (9780593544396).
REVIEW.
First published August 2024 (Booklist).
The pitfalls and traps of artistic success are explored in the latest compelling novel by Senna (New People, 2017). Novelist and creative writing professor Jane and her family have an itinerant lifestyle, moving from one temporary home to another, never feeling settled.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Danzy Senna
Narrator Kristen Ariza lends her expert skills to this intimate character study. The story follows Jane, a biracial author who is struggling with finishing her novel, which she believes to be revolutionary. She moves her family near Hollywood, where she meets a producer who wants to make her book into a television show. Jane is a complex character who is often skeptical, and when she is met with the usual difficulties while navigating Hollywood, she becomes even more suspicious.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Jenna Seery |Rumaan Alam |Danzy Senna
Poured Over: Danzy Senna and Rumaan Alam Rumaan Alam, author of Entitlement, and Danzy Senna, author of Colored Television, join us live at The Grove to talk about liminal spaces, writing impeccable dialogue, the similarities and differences in their characters and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.
