The week's bestselling books, Sept. 15
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024, including hardcover and paperback ...
Some Consider Being Biracial a ‘Predicament.’ Danzy Senna Thinks It’s Hilarious.
Senna, who is mixed-race, has made a career satirizing the lives of characters like her. Her new novel takes elements from ...
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This week's bestsellers at Southern California's independent bookstores
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Sept. 8 is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of Southern California, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance and ...
Danzy Senna on Joan Didion, 'Paradise,' and Her Literary Comfort Food
The award-winning author of 'Caucasia' and 'Colored Television' on Joan Didion, 'Paradise,' and the book she considers her ...
Los Angeles Times19d
Is Hollywood exploiting race? There’s no business like show business in Danzy Senna’s takedown of identity politics
Danzy Senna’s first novel ... the mother of two boys with her husband, novelist Percival Everett. “As I got older, I realized that I needed to create hard boundaries around my writing ...
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Danzy Senna Can’t Stop Thinking in Black and White
The protagonist of Danzy Senna’s latest novel ... not a little Senna’s real-life husband, fellow writer Percival Everett), he is possibly the only person Jane respects. And he loves her ...
The Washington Post18d
‘Colored Television’ turns our racial obsessions into comedy
In 1998, a decade before America elected its first biracial president, Danzy Senna published ... Lion roaring before an MGM film. (Senna’s husband, Percival Everett, drew a similar bead on ...
Orange County Register18d
Why Danzy Senna says writing ‘Colored Television’ was a struggle
In Danzy Senna’s provocative and funny new novel ... Senna, a professor of English at USC and married to “James” novelist Percival Everett, spoke by video recently about drawing on ...