Leah Tyler

Los Angeles

Writer at Freelance

National Book Critics Circle. Aspiring novelist. 📚

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers ponders history, race and gender in new work

1 week ago | ajc.com | Leah Tyler

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is an award-winning poet, novelist and tenured professor who readily admits she is acquisitive, especially when it concerns her family. “I’m greedy for what I’m owed: my entire history,” she writes in “Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings,” a collection of 42 social, political and personal mediations and poems that provide fascinating insight into the author’s work and life.
Finance bro turns scrappy to save the day in S.A. Cosby’s new book

3 weeks ago | ajc.com | Leah Tyler

Southern noir crime-fiction writer S.A. Cosby is a New York Times bestselling author known for his gritty thrillers featuring graphic violence and plotlines with a high body count.
Former Atlanta restaurant critic Besha Rodell has new memoir

1 month ago | ajc.com | Leah Tyler

How does a journalist score a gig jet-setting from country to country — eating dinner at a remote village in Italy and breakfast at a mountain chalet in Slovenia — on a mission to compile a list of the 50 best restaurants in the world?
'This Is Your Mother' is a new memoir about a complicated mom

2 months ago | ajc.com | Leah Tyler

Erika J. Simpson writes a compelling scene in her evocative debut memoir “This Is Your Mother” about how a professor dashed her dream of becoming an actor during her freshman year of college. “Acting is a cheap trick,” her professor says after watching Simpson perform an auto-drama depicting her mother’s arrest in a Decatur Walmart when she was 8 years old. “But writing, some things can’t be taught. And you’ve got it, kid.”At the time, Simpson wanted to be a movie star and was crushed.
Human need for connection fuels ‘Everybody Says It’s Everything’

2 months ago | ajc.com | Leah Tyler |Xhenet Aliu

Xhenet Aliu won Georgia’s most prestigious literary award, the Townsend Prize for Fiction, for her 2018 debut novel, “Brass.” Named a Best Book of the Year by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the multigenerational family drama took place among the abandoned brass factories of her native Waterbury, Connecticut.
Live in Concert'

Mar 25, 2025 | ajc.com | Leah Tyler

Bob the Drag Queen is no stranger to innovation. The Georgia native who also goes by the stage name Caldwell Tidicue is the 2016 winner of Emmy Award-winning “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and claims to be the first Black drag queen to garner 1 million followers on Instagram — a number that has doubled since achieving the milestone. In the decade since his reality TV debut, Bob has made public appearances as a comedian, actor, LGBTQ activist, musician and larger-than-life TV personality.
‘I’ll Come to You’ a quiet story about regular folk that quickly builds suspense

Jan 7, 2025 | ajc.com | Leah Tyler |Rebecca Kauffman

It isn’t unusual for couples to grapple with how to please two sets of parents — or more, if divorce factors into their family histories — over the holidays. It’s hard to make everyone happy, Virginia author Rebecca Kauffman’s fifth novel asserts when single mother Ellen Leach complains about her first Christmas alone post-divorce on a blind date. Ellen isn’t the only reason the date doesn’t go well.
Journalist who grew up on Georgia coast explores Gullah Geechee roots in new book

Dec 4, 2024 | ajc.com | Leah Tyler |Neesha Powell-Ingabire

In “Come By Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia’s Geechee Coast,” a collection of 20 poignant and searching essays and photos, journalist Neesha Powell-Ingabire combines her coming-of-age journey growing up on the Georgia coast with her adult exploration of her Gullah Geechee lineage — which her family historically shunned.
‘Sky Full of Elephants’ imagines a world without white people

Nov 19, 2024 | ajc.com | Leah Tyler |Cebo Campbell

Author Cebo Campbell was hoping to answer a specific question when he sat down with an idea for a story: What would happen if he took Ferris Bueller and replaced him with Trayvon Martin? Campbell reveals in a conversation with author Jason Reynolds that within 10 pages, his story fell apart.
Leo Frank plays key role in Mary Glickman’s new novel ‘Ain’t No Grave’

Nov 5, 2024 | ajc.com | Leah Tyler |Mary Glickman

“Ain’t No Grave” begins as a heartwarming tale of forbidden love between the son of a Jewish shop owner and daughter of a Black sharecropper. But Mary Glickman’s sixth novel quickly evolves into a fascinating retelling of a horrific event in Georgia’s history, the 1915 lynching of Jewish American businessman Leo Frank.