Kibkabe Araya's Blog, page 23
April 2, 2020
The Free Black Women’s Library Is Fighting Ban on Facebook, Instagram
On Thursday morning, The Free Black Women’s Library founder Ola Ronke tweeted that the national group’s Facebook and Instagram accounts had been suspended for violating community standards possibly over sharing works by Zora Neale Hurston and Audre Lorde. With the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic raging around the world, Ola Ronke said her events had been canceled, […]
March 31, 2020
Book Review: ‘Grand Union’ by Zadie Smith
Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith My rating: 3 of 5 stars Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith is an offbeat story collection that dives into the lives of various characters from the U.K. to New York. The author’s literary fiction style sometimes shines in certain stories and fails to deliver in others. The longer […]
March 30, 2020
‘Little Fires Everywhere’ TV Review: The Spider Web
The fourth episode of Little Fires Everywhere details the aftermath of a birthday party and the rupture of a budding relationship between two mothers and their children. Mystery novelist Attica Locke, a producer on the Hulu series, wrote the episode based on the novel by Celeste Ng. Attica was also a TV writer on Fox’s […]
March 25, 2020
Samantha Irby Shares How She Went From Author to TV Writer
Comedic essayist and blogger Samantha Irby wrote a lengthy article about how she was tapped to be a part of a TV show perfectly made for her. Samantha, the author of the best-selling essay collections We Are Never Meeting In Real Life, Meaty and Wow, No Thank You, is a writer on Hulu’s Shrill, starring […]
March 24, 2020
Kidlit Author Kelly Yang Says She Was Called a Racial Slur While Teaching Class
Middle grade and young adult novelist Kelly Yang posted on Twitter that she was called a "Chinese virus" on an Instagram Live video.
March 23, 2020
‘Little Fires Everywhere’ TV Review: Seventy Cents
Little Fires Everywhere on Hulu has already set the groundwork for showing the relationships between three mothers—all of different races—and how their circumstances in 1990s suburbia will impact their lives forever.
March 22, 2020
‘Little Fires Everywhere’ TV Review: Seeds and All
The second episode of Little Fires Everywhere deepens the on-and-off acquaintanceship of two matriarchs trying to accept their newfound ties.
March 21, 2020
‘Little Fires Everywhere’ TV Review: The Spark
Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere, which started streaming this week on Hulu with its first three episodes, is already establishing the racial thread between two families in an upscale Ohio suburb in 1997.
March 19, 2020
Book Review: ‘On the Come Up’ by Angie Thomas
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas My rating: 5 of 5 stars On the Come Up by Angie Thomas follows a teenage girl through her rise in the local rap game as she learns to navigate her emotions around a traumatic event at her high school. Like Angie’s debut novel The Hate U Give, […]
March 17, 2020
Book Review: ‘Sabrina & Corina’ by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine is a brilliant short story collection surrounding indigenous and Latina characters in Colorado. From the first story to the last story, the book follows the lives of several women who are trying to keep family and history a priority. “Sugar Babies” is the introductory story showing two classmates trying […]
