Best-selling young adult author Jason Reynolds dissects some of his favorite passages to uncover the keys to writing a powerful narrative.
Works discussed in this episode:
- Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
- Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store by Eve L. Ewing
- When You Learn the Alphabet by Kendra Allen
- Girl by Jamaica Kincaid
- Fences (2016) [film]
- Black Enough by Jason Reynolds
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