Interview |
The Black Book Interactive Project: A Talk With The Scholars
“BBIP created a pipeline for new critical discoveries by examining novels that hadn’t been subjected to extensive data analysis. The metadata schema unlocks information not visibly associated with race. Diving deep into the work tells us more about literary culture and responses.”
Essay |
“No Finer Form” and “Misfits”
“Then they argue over whether Poseidon or Neptune is the god of the sea, refusing to believe that it’s both.”
Essay |
“Banding”
“Someone posted today that ICE vans were out in force, hunting the valley for illegals …”
Poetry |
“Winn Dixie Parking Lot”
Fiction |
“The Destroyer Is Forced to Confront His Inner Hoarder” and “The Destroyer Packs Peanut Butter Sandwiches in His Daughter’s Lunch”
“Why did the Destroyer need to keep a bookmark from a long-closed bookstore or a hand-painted Russian doll that had jumped in his things and watched over him from a shelf?”
Poetry |
“Gathered At The Well”
Essay |
“Thirteen”
“When I was your age the girl I loved dumped me the night a ball went through Buckner’s legs and the Sox would lose the Series and she kissed Dave.”
Poetry |
“In Hitler’s Bathtub”
Fiction |
“Dead Reckoning”
“Some days, seeing is nothing more than a stack of ifs, a totem, bird-beat, a craggy fray, a fleck of dust that catches the eye and for a split second makes everything crystal clear.”