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Excited to announce our September book pick: "Colored Television" by Danzy Senna. Get ready for a powerful read on race and identity. Check out an excerpt and preorder your copy! Riverhead Books altaonline.com/california-boo…

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Writer Walton Muyumba looks at "Colored Television," and how it explores and interrogates mixed-race identity, anti-Black structures, class aspirations, and conspicuous consumption in America. altaonline.com/california-boo…

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"When you first encountered the 'tragic mulatta' figure in literature, what were your reactions?" Danzy Senna answers this and more in a Q&A with our editor Anita Felicelli. altaonline.com/california-boo…

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Read an early extract from Danzy Senna’s latest novel, “Colored Television,” out September 3 from Riverhead Books! altaonline.com/california-boo…

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“Senna makes, unmakes, and remakes Blackness cyclically, using jokes and play to keep the blues of it all at bay,” writes Walton Muyumba. altaonline.com/california-boo…

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At the heart of Danzy Senna’s “Colored Television” lies a novelist striving to transcend life's confines through her work. leggy genius explores how Senna’s characters, often biracial, challenge racial dichotomies. altaonline.com/california-boo…

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Our editor Anita Felicelli interviews Danzy Senna, the brilliant mind behind “Colored Television” and our September featured author. altaonline.com/california-boo…

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“Hollywood is an adjective and an idea and also a place, urban and baked hot in pale yellow sun, glittery with missed connections,” writes Lisa Locascio Nighthawk, remmebering the challenges of the yearslong home she chose—and returned to. altaonline.com/california-boo…

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In her novel, “Colored Television,” Danzy Senna plays with questions of commodification, property, and ownership. Our editor, Anita Felicelli, examines our September title. altaonline.com/california-boo…

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This month, we’re looking at "I Love Hearing Your Dreams," "Dispossessed," and eight other titles by writers on and of the West. altaonline.com/books/g6194973…

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"There’s such an amnesia and erasure of biracial people of Black-white origins at every stage of our existence in this country," says Danzy Senna. Read more of Anita Felicelli's interview with our September author below. altaonline.com/california-boo…

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“The characters who populate author Danzy Senna’s fictions are often biracial Americans who trouble and problematize dichotomous race-making by their mere presence,” writes leggy genius for the book club. altaonline.com/california-boo…

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“One day you are a promising young artist with your whole career ahead of you, and the next day you are barely getting by.” Today, J. Howard Rosier examines Danzy Senna’s “Colored Television.” altaonline.com/california-boo…

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“Shouldn’t our deepest stories, our art, our stories of ourselves, our signs to society express difficult nonbinary truths, systems notwithstanding, since they are, finally, our own?” writes Anita Felicelli. altaonline.com/california-boo…

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“When I first arrived, I loved the sprawl of Hollywood because it reminded me of my childhood in the Chicago suburbs. Now, the area seems reducible to only itself, a grimy luxury few get to enjoy,” Lisa Locascio Nighthawk writes on Hollywood. altaonline.com/california-boo…