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February 1, 2023 (January 24, 2023)

Free E-book Giveaway: AFRO-NOSTALGIA

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February’s free e-book is here! Check out Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture by Badia Aha-Legardy before the month is over!  As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans […]

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October 27, 2022 (October 14, 2022)

Q&A with the authors of MARIANNE MEETS THE MORMONS

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Heather Belnap, Corry Cropper, and Daryl Lee, authors of Marianne Meets the Mormons: Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century France, answers questions on their scholarly influences, discoveries, and reader takeaways from […]

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September 1, 2022 (August 22, 2022)

Free E-book Giveaway: LAUGHING TO KEEP FROM DYING

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September’s free ebook is here! Check out Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century by Danielle Fuentes Morgan before the month is over!  By subverting […]

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June 30, 2022 (July 28, 2022)

Q&A with Kelli D. Zaytoun, author of SHAPESHIFTING SUBJECTS

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Kelli D. Zaytoun, author of Shapeshifting Subjects: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Naguala and Border Arte, answers questions on why she decided to write this book and what media she consumes for fun. […]

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June 1, 2022 (May 31, 2022)

Free Ebook Giveaway: BLACK QUEER FREEDOM

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June’s free ebook is here! Check out Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire by GerShun Avilez before the month is over!  Whether engaged in same-sex desire […]

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January 12, 2022 (October 19, 2021)

Q&A With Rachel S. Cordasco, Author of Out of This World

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Rachel S. Cordasco, author of Out of This World: Speculative Fiction in Translation from the Cold War to the New Millennium, answers questions on her scholarly influences, discoveries, and reader […]

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October 14, 2021 (October 8, 2021)

Q&A With Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Author of The Poetics of Difference

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Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, author of The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora, answers questions on her literary influences, discoveries, and reader takeaways from her book. Q: […]

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September 7, 2020 (August 12, 2020)

Q&A with Jonathan R. Eller, author of Bradbury Beyond Apollo

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Jonathan R. Eller, author of Bradbury Beyond Apollo, the final book in his trilogy biography of Ray Bradbury, answers questions about his reasoning for writing a trilogy, academic and literary […]

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August 31, 2020 (September 1, 2020)

Q&A with Koritha Mitchell, Author of From Slave Cabins to the White House

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Author, Koritha Mitchell, of From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture answers questions about her influences, discoveries, and dispelling myths about African American culture. […]

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November 1, 2019 (October 30, 2019)

Get a Free Ebook of “Octavia E. Butler” by Gerry Canavan

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Giveaway alert! We’re offering a free ebook of OCTAVIA E. BUTLER by Gerry Canavan during November. Butler’s experiences as an African American woman in the world of white male-dominated science […]

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May 22, 2019 (May 6, 2019)

Linda A. Morris on “What is Personal about Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc?”

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Linda A. Morris is a Professor of Emeritus at UC Davis. Her current research is on gender play in the works of Mark Twain. Her earlier published work focused primarily […]

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June 27, 2018

Q&A with Gary Westfahl, author of “Arthur C. Clarke”

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Gary Westfahl, formerly of the University of La Verne and the University of California, Riverside, has now retired to focus exclusively on research and writing. His many books on science […]

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