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Original air date: Sunday, October 31, 2022
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About the Episode: :Dr. Brenda Greene interviews Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, author of My Monticello: Fiction (Henry Holt and Co., 2021). Greene and Johnson discuss Johnson’s motivation for writing the five short stories and novella, her writing process and the state of Black literature. My Monticello is a cautionary tale in the tradition of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower. The themes in these stories include, among others, race relations, white supremacy, police brutality, the immigrant experience, and environmental issues. Johnson’s opening story, “Control Negro” recounts a Black professor’s clinical observation of his son from birth through young adulthood. The novella My Monticello features a diverse group of Charlottesville neighbors who flee white supremacists and seek refuge in Monticello, the plantation home of Thomas Jefferson. Johnson has been a fellow at Tin House, Hedgebrook, and VCCA; her writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Guernica, The Guardian, Kweli, Joyland, Phoebe, Shenandoah, Prime Number Magazine, and elsewhere.
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Dr. Brenda M. Greene is the host of the weekly "Writers On Writing" radio program. She is also a professor of English, as well as the founder and executive director of the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY. The radio program offers a forum for emerging and established writers to discuss their craft (Black literature specifically) and literary topics in general.
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