The Fight for Diversity in Publishing Competes With ‘American Dirt’ Success American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins’ debut sensation, was met with controversy right off the bat when the Latinx literary community said Read More
Romance Writers of America Debacle Reignites Diversity Conversation Over the last week of the year, news spread of novelist Courtney Milan getting punished by Romance Writers of America Read More
2019 Literary Lookback: The Rise of Noname’s Book Club Rapper Noname started a book club this past summer and has amassed a strong following with mostly millennial readers looking Read More
Women Authors Attack Sarah Dessen Critic in Social Media Uproar This past week, young adult author Sarah Dessen tweeted a quote from a college article by a woman who campaigned Read More
Dakota Fanning’s Role in ‘Sweetness in the Belly’ Sparks Debate on Whitewashed African Stories The debut of the trailer for a film based on a critically acclaimed novel starring former child actress Dakota Fanning Read More
How Disney’s Original ‘The Little Mermaid’ Perpetuated the White Mermaid Image Thirty years later, a black mermaid is hard to believe with the new Disney remake yet a book gave me the black mermaid I needed to see. Read More
