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Disparates by Patrick Madden

Dear Patrick Madden, You have written a collection of essays so enjoyable that, instead of relegating it to my nightstand for evening reading, I carried...

Fierce Aria by Maxima Kahn

Dear Maxima Kahn, When wildfire smoke strangled the end of summer in a chokehold, shuttered my windows, and silenced the birds, I read your collection...

The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom

Dear Sarah M. Broom, We see a lot of big numbers here in the year 2020: 230,000 Americans lost to COVID-19 (with well over a...

How to Be Black by Baratunde Thurston

Dear Baratunde Thurston,  Growing up first-generation West Indian in the U.S. is a lot like being a ghost. A ghost lives in this shadowy, borderlands...

The Home Place by J. Drew Lanham

Dear J. Drew Lanham, I took ornithology with the CT state ornithologist Dr. Margaret Rubega. It was the first time I’d gathered with a group...

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

Dear Kiese,  I damn near broke down in my class. In front of a bunch of twenty-year-olds in a private liberal arts college, seniors who...

My Mother Was A Freedom Fighter by Aja Monet

Dear Aja Monet, Last week I stood in a too-empty amphitheater next to a confederate statue in downtown Tampa for a vigil for Breonna Taylor,...

Black Lives Matter Review Month

For the month of October, Sweet’s Fan Mail reviews will all be done on work by Black authors. We believe that Black Lives Matter,...

Still Life With God by Cynthia Atkins

Dear Cynthia Atkins,  As a child I would lose my God on purpose. Leave him in my lunchbox, or send him through the laundry with...

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Dear Carmen Maria Machado, Thank you for writing, In The Dream House. I was first introduced to your writing, like so many others, through the collection...

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