Never Very Far from What Is Happening Right Now

ANDREA HAIRSTON IS A playwright and theater director, a novelist, a critic, and the Louise Wolff Kahn Professor of Theatre and Africana Studies at Smith College. Her previous books include science fiction (Mindscape) and what can best be described as magical realism (Redwood and Wildfire and Will Do Magic for Small Change). Hairston’s new novel, […] The post Never Very Far from What Is Happening Right Now appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-12-26 18:00:34 UTC ]
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