Spring has sprung, and with it several projects I have been working on through the winter! The reading group I am leading through The Center for Fiction entitled “Two Lies and a Truth: Reading Between the Lines of Fact and Fiction” kicked off this month with Emma Cline’s The Girls, a book I found even more enjoyable the second time around, and the readers and I engaged in a lively conversation about its structure and characters. (Next up: Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) I also began interviewing for the New Books Network, and had the honor of speaking with Ben Arogundade about his book, Hollywood Blackout: The Fight for Inclusion at the Oscars, as well as Dr. Frederick Knight of Howard University about his latest, Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom. I encourage you to check out the episodes.