“I was 16 years old, nearly 17, when a boy first expressed interest in me. Or, maybe it was that I was 16, nearly 17, when I first took notice of a boy’s interest in me.” This is how Chinelo Okparanta’s recollection of her first teenage crush begins. In a piece for Freeman’s magazine, republished […]
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Otosirieze Obi-Young Talks Brittle Paper’s Support for Queer Writers in Literary Hub Profile
Brittle Paper‘s deputy editor Otosirieze Obi-Young was recently profiled on Literary Hub. The October 3 feature is titled “On a Progressive Platform for New African Literature” and is one of those long-overdue recognitions that are heartwarming. It was a timely for our #QueerYourAfricanRead project and was published just after our panel at the 2019 Lambda […]
Listen to Chris Abani Talk James Baldwin, Yoruba Myths and the Refugee Experience | Soundcloud
Novelist and poet Chris Abani was recently in a conversation with Paul Holdengraber, Director of New York Public Library (NYPL)’s Public Programming. The conversation, which took place via a phone call, centered on “tenderness, Yoruba creation myths, James Baldwin, and trying to write an essay about the refugee experience.” It is published by Literary Hub. Professor […]
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