Zakiya Dalila Harris, Author at Public Seminar

Two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York book publishing

July 23, 2018Wagner Books Midtown Manhattan The first sign was the smell of cocoa butter. When it initially crept around the wall of her cubicle, Nella was too busy filing a stack of pages at her desk, aligning each and every one so that the manuscript was perfectly flush. She was so ...

Literature

What Happens to “Black Woman Number Two” in a White Workplace?

Zakiya Dalila Harris and Zia Jaffrey discuss Harris’s debut novel, The Other Black Girl

September 29, 2021 • by Zakiya Dalila Harris and Zia Jaffrey

In its first week of sale, The Other Black Girl (Atria Books, 2021) made the New York Times best-seller list. A TV adaptation is now underway with Hulu. This success is all the more impressive for a debut novel—one that draws, in part, on material author Zakiya Dalila Harris developed ...