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Tomi Adeyemi, on the right with long locs, a light dress and black thigh-high boots, sits in a tan armchair holding a microphone and gesturing, in conversation with Imani Ellis, on the left with long wavy black hair and a white blazer, also holding a microphone, on a Barnes & Noble stage with a small table between them holding a stack of books and flowers, and a large screen behind them reading 'TOMI ADEYEMI in conversation with IMANI ELLIS,' with audience members' heads in the foreground.

Tomi Adeyemi Trades Orïsha for Dark Academia in ‘The Siren’

Tomi Adeyemi built a world in Orïsha and sold more than three million copies of it. Her Legacy of Orïsha trilogy, which began with Children of...

In a bookstore in front of colorful bookshelves, Deesha Philyaw, on the right with short coiled hair, red-framed glasses, a black face mask and a black top, holds a book with the partially readable title 'The True Confessions,' standing beside a smiling bearded man on the left wearing an olive cap with a round patch and a light shirt with a green palm-tree pattern.

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Deesha Philyaw’s Debut Novel ‘The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman’ Takes On the Megachurch

Deesha Philyaw knows the church ladies — she made her name telling their secret lives. Her 2020 debut collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, won...

Tananarive Due, a smiling woman with short dark hair wearing a coral top, takes a selfie in the foreground of a large conference hall, while a seated audience behind her holds up copies of books, under large circular ceiling lights and above a gray geometric-patterned carpet; one man on the right wears a blue sweatshirt reading 'GOD IS DOPE.'

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Tananarive Due Haunts Old Hollywood in New Novel ‘Mazywood’

Tananarive Due has spent a career proving that horror is where America tells the truth about itself. The American Book Award and NAACP Image Award-winning author...

Marlon James, a man with short dark hair and a beard wearing a black T-shirt printed with a Casio Data Bank watch graphic, sits typing on a laptop at a wooden desk cluttered with open books, papers and a phone, in a home study with tall bookshelves, a ladder, a patterned armchair and a gray sofa behind him.

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Marlon James Returns to Jamaica With ‘The Disappearers,’ a Booker-Shortlisted Epic

Marlon James does not write small books, and he has never written safe ones. The Jamaican-born novelist who won the 2015 Booker Prize for A Brief...

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Must Read: Fed Up! A Relatable Memoir by Carol Henderson

Fed Up chronicles the daily trials and tribulations of a young African American woman as she navigates the ins-and-outs of working for the United States Federal...