Beyond a Book Review: Alternate Futures in Womb City
A look at a genre-bending, Afrofuturist, speculative novel that grapples with gender, the ethics of AI, and the question of whether balance and hope are possible.
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Beyond a Book Review: Beginning at the End in Tomb Sweeping
Tomb Sweeping is a collection of 15 character-driven short stories about Chinese or Chinese-American characters written by Alexandra Chang.
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Beyond a Book Review: The "What if?" of The Deep Sky
The future Yume Kitasei imagined for us is one that mirrors our present when it comes to diversity.
Beyond a Book Review: Grief and Hope in All We Are Told Not to Touch
Why do we write? How do we navigate grief? What gives us hope?
Beyond a Book Review: Once Upon a Time in Dovelion
Read Shawna's review of a novel with a built-in writing prompt for you to try.
Beyond a Book Review: Narrators and Compassion in Finding La Negrita
Shawna Ayoub highlights the technique of using multiple narrators to foster compassion in a story, and offers an exercise so you can practice doing the same.
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Beyond a Book Review: Research as connection in Through the Banks of the Red Cedar
Shawna Ayoub moves "beyond the book review" in not only recommending great books by diverse writers, but highlighting a technique to apply to your own writing.
Book recommendation: A Friend Sails in on a Poem
The clear takeaway, the living arc of this book, is how a love of poetry and a commitment to a writing life, or any artistic life, can bind two people to one another.
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Beyond a Book Review: Intuition in River Woman, River Demon
Shawna Ayoub highlights the strength of character and intuition in Jennifer Givhan's new novel, and offers a writing exercise to help us achieve a similar effect in our own work.
Beyond a Book Review: Timeline(s) in Becoming AppalAsian
Shawna Ayoub explores Lisa Kwong's memoir as an example of using chronology to organize a life story, and offers a three-step exercise you can apply to yours.