“Damnificados” to be translated into French

We’ve just sold the French rights to Damnificados to the publishing house Les éditions de L’Observatoire. They’ll bring out a French edition in 2019. Les éditions de L’Observatoire (http://editions-observatoire.com/rentree-litteraire-2017) was launched by ex-staff members of major houses like Plon, Flammarion and Albin Michel. They specialize in “classic writers with a twist of modernity” and publish a very…

“In the Wake: On Blackness and Being” by Christina Sharpe

Part memoir, part thesis, and part lyrical examination of what it means to be black in the 21st century, In The Wake is simply a great, great book. It bridges so many fields – social justice, poetry, fiction, Critical Race Theory, semiotics, semantics – yet retains complete coherence. It is beautiful, ingenious and tragic. In…