THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION Jazz Toni Morrison ◆ Fiction Jazz Toni Morrison A Harlem love triangle unfolds through a shifting narrative shaped by musical improvisation.
THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION Ma Rainey's Black Bottom August Wilson ◆ Drama Ma Rainey's Black Bottom August Wilson A recording session brings musicians and industry power into collision as Ma Rainey insists on her terms.
THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION My People Langston Hughes ◆ Picture book My People Langston Hughes Hughes’s short poem becomes the basis of a photographic celebration of Black faces and lives.
THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION Passing Nella Larsen ◆ Fiction Passing Nella Larsen A reunion between two childhood acquaintances unsettles the social boundaries each has learned to navigate.
THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION Quicksand Nella Larsen ◆ Fiction Quicksand Nella Larsen Helga Crane moves between institutions, cities, and countries in search of a place she can inhabit freely.
THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION The Big Sea Langston Hughes ◆ Memoir The Big Sea Langston Hughes Hughes remembers childhood, travel, and the artists and arguments around the Harlem Renaissance.
THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION The Ways of White Folks Langston Hughes ◆ Short stories The Ways of White Folks Langston Hughes Short fiction captures the shifting bargains of race and class across American life.
