Ariana

Ariana (she/her/ella), is a former DC bookseller who now lives in Chicago and is exploring its arts, culture and food scene. She reads most genres but gravitates towards essays, cultural criticism, fiction (including short stories), history, and sociology (feminism, Black history and leftist politics). Her favorite book set in Chicago is Maud Martha.

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Making Bookstores a Safe Haven for Communities: An Interview with Char Adams
“Authentically Chicago, authentically Southside, authentically Black”: An Interview with Sandra Jackson-Opoku on Her Pioneering Cozy Mystery
Gatsby in 1940s Black Hollywood: A Conversation with Kyra Davis Lurie
“I knew I wanted to do something with the notion of young people joined by the inheritance of war”: An Interview with Julie Iromuanya
Giving Flowers to the Black Panther Party: Interview with Fabienne Josaphat
Alone with Edwidge Danticat
10 Books for the Final Days of Summer
There’s a New Bookstore on the Block: Call & Response Opens in Hyde Park