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E S S A Y S
You Look Like Your Daddy Hippocampus
The Life and Legacy of Bharati Mukherjee The Literary Hub
Drinking Chai to Savannah Longreads
When a Person of Color Tells You About Their Racist Experiences, Don’t Respond Like This Fusion
Identity Lost and Found Atlanta Journal Constitution
Ghosts of White People Past: Witnessing White Flight in an Asian Ethnoburb Pacific Standard
Reading the Partition of India The Literary Hub
Returning to the Real India Khabar Magazine
Blueprint for a Baby Atlanta Magazine [Featured at VelaMagazine]
Borderline Prime Number Magazine
Finding minority writers isn’t ‘racial nepotism.’ The Guardian
The Long and Short of It Khabar
Why Are We Letting Microsoft Guesstimate Our Age? Dame
How a puppy reminded us what it means to be a family The Washington Post [Reprinted at The News Journal; Sante Fe New Mexican; iOL.]
Even Our Online Activism Is Affected by Race Alternet
A New Name for the Selma Bridge Is Long Overdue Huffington Post
Generation X’s Parenting Problem The Mid [Reprinted at The Huffington Post]
I was a born-again Yankee – until the deep south called me back The Guardian
Three Girls? ‘I Feel Sorry for Their Father’ The New York Times
Mixing Colors Huffington Post
Mixing Colors Khabar
The Safety Net Full Grown People
Beadwork r.kv.r.y.
A Different World: No Longer Brown in White America InCulture Parent
Carousel Mothering
R E P O R T I NG
Can protest art survive and thrive during a Trump presidency? Pacific Standard
Cincinnati Suburb Unites Around Neighbor Accused of Terrorist Ties 500 Pens
White authors are still writing racist books because white critics won’t call them out Quartz
This Food truck Serves Up Gourmet Fare and Drinks — And Refugee Jobs NPR
White authors are still writing racist books because white critics won’t call them out Quartz
Post-election coverage largely erases voices of those most at risk All Digitocracy
Un/Masked: A Q & A with Donna Kaz, A Guerilla Girl on Tour Rewire News
Do Americans Hate Foreign Fiction? The Literary Hub
Interview: Sow the Seeds with Ann Patchett Google Books
One Woman’s Quest to Record the History of the 1947 Partition NBC
Jose Antonio Vargas talks citizenship for undocumented residents in a Trump World Fusion
Roxane Gay on Trump: ‘I wish this was a nightmare and we could wake up’ Fusion
Ghost of White People Past: Witnessing White Flight in an Asian Ethnoburb Pacific Standard
Jenny Yang: when you’re a little immigrant Asian girl in America, no one tells you to be a comedian The Guardian
Decatur Book Fest marks 10 years of celebrating book for every kind of reader ArtsATL
D’Lo: ‘I came out three times — as gay, as having a girlfriend and as trans’ The Guardian
Even Our Online Activism is Affected by Race Alternet
Nicki Salcedo’s popular “Decaturish” columns sampled in new book “Intersections” ArtsATL
Kristina Wong: Pushing the envelope on race, rights and America The Guardian
Sally Kilpatrick on Sweet/Saucy Debut Novel, “The Happy Hour Choir” ArtsATL
My auntie, Rosa Parks The Guardian
Book Fest: Fate of Holocaust plunder pivot of Ayelet Waldman’s “Love and Treasure” ArtsATL
Q&A: Anna Quindlen on women writers, creativity and new novel, “Still Life with Bread Crumbs” ArtsATL
Q&A’s Jodi Picoult’s interest in elephant’s emotions propelled “Leaving Time” ArtsATL
The Rumpus Interview with Julie Schumacher The Rumpus
Interview: Poet and Pioneer Khabar
Subterranean Lives Los Angeles Review of Books
Atlanta writers find welcoming community, eager readers as city makes mark on literary map. ArtsATL
Metro Atlanta Club is built on unusual mix: Women, books and guns ArtsATL
As some bookstores close, others thrive selling “much more” than books ArtsATL
Getting by with a little help from my (Facebook) friend: Writers, readers, and social media ArtsATL
Jonathan Zufi captures Apple’s evolution in ICONIC, an encyclopedic picture book ArtsATL
Atlanta institutions build archives of LGBTQ culture, politics, history ArtsATL
30 Under 30: Hailey Lowe Fennell’s photos trace “diminishing line between man and nature” ArtsATL
Decatur Book Festival: Bettina Love, Randall Kennedy will focus on hip-hop, affirmative action ArtsATL
30 Under 30: Laura Relyea vouches for great books, spreads the love with contagious enthusiasm ArtsATL
C R I T I C I S M
Mystery behind teen’s disappearance cleaves community in Sycamore Atlanta Journal Constitution
Deadly allergy complicates courtship in ‘Close Enough to Touch’ Atlanta Journal Constitution
‘The Barrowfields’ rues the legacy of family tragedies Atlanta Journal Constitution
How Lifetime’s Forgotten TV Series ‘Any Day Now’ Confronted Racism Vice
A hasty marriage unravels in Civil War era ‘The Second Mrs. Hockaday’ Atlanta Journal Constitution
Love, lust and longing abide in ‘Virgin and Other Stories’ Atlanta Journal Constitution
A Survivor’s Guilt: John Edgar Wideman Ruminates on Louis Till File in New Book Rewire News
White authors are still writing racist books because white critics won’t call them out Quartz
Review: They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery Star Tribune
Black women celebrated as heroes of the space race in ‘Hidden Figures’ Atlanta Journal Constitution
Author Jennifer Weiner Tackles Sexism and Self-Doubt in New Memoir Rewire News
Sing for Your Life delivers arresting anthem of an opera singer Atlanta Journal Constitution
Reading the Partition of India The Literary Hub
Books: Do Good Girls Rebel? Khabar
Review: ‘Homegoing’ by Yaa Gyasi Star Tribune
‘The Lynching’ examines the trial that sacked the Klan Atlanta-Journal Constitution
Across Three Generations Khabar Magazine
Spring Reading: 5 new books by Georgia authors to toss in your suitcase Atlanta Magazine
Under the Odala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta review The Guardian
Review: ‘Between the World and Me’ by Ta-Nehisi Coates; elegy for a black childhood Star Tribune
Children’s Books: Of Tigers and Weddings Khabar
Review: ‘Two Years’ Unspools an Elegant, Apocalyptic Tale ArtsATL
Natalie Baszile’s Queen Sugar raises cane and the bar for quiet literary fiction ArtsATL
[Review] The Amado Women by Desiree Zamorano PANK
Civil Disobedience: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War Los Angeles Review of Books
Ship of Fools: On Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account The Millions
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay Review Paste
The Best Novels of 2014 (So Far) Paste
Lyrical Prose Rooted in Mississippi Delta Lifts Karen White’s “A Long Time Gone” ArtsATL
Editors of “Khabar” create magazine for and about Atlanta’s Indian Americans ArtsATL
The Last 13 Feminist Bookstores in North America Paste
15 Short Story Collections for the Novels-Only Reader Paste
8 Great YA Novels Featuring South Asian Protagonists Paste
Review: In “One More Thing,” B.J. Novak proves why he could quit his job at “The Office” ArtsATL
Beach reads: A half-dozen best best for summer from Atlanta authors. ArtsATL
H U M O R
6 Lesser-Known Starbucks Hashtag Movements The Mid
Generation X’s Parenting Problem The Mid
How to Go Clubbing When You’re 40 The Mid
List: My New Year’s Internet Resolutions McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
P O E T R Y
Alias and Dal Done Change Seven
Carousel Minerva Rising
