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And maybe that’s the point

I was prepared to laugh my way through Danzy Senna’s sixth novel, Colored Television (Riverhead, 2024), after reading review after review touting the book as a comedy. In this period of intense political and social divisiveness and strife, I hoped a fun satire (I like ridicule!) about a biracial (I’m ...

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What’s the Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote?

Beginning to understand a hero’s journey from Appalachia to pop-culture icon

March 9, 2021 • by Tressie McMillan Cottom

_____ I started the reading for my Dolly Parton passion project with Sarah Smarsh’s She Come By It Natural for no other reason than it was new and in stock at my local bookstore (Flyleaf Books). That is to say, for no good reason at all. I don’t intend to review these books, including ...