Karla FC Holloway’s most recent novel, Gone Missing in Harlem (Triquarterly, 2021), a Publisher’s Weekly Starred ⭐️ Review (!), joined her Harlem Renaissance series that began with A Death in Harlem (2019). Eight academic books marked her scholarly career; notably BookMarks: Reading in Black & White (Rutgers 2006), completed during her 2005 Bellagio Residency, and Passed On: African American Mourning Stories (DukePress 2002). Since becoming a Professor Emerita, this Duke University distinguished professor of African American cultural studies, bioethics and law indulges in writing the fictions her own book club of 30+ years has enjoyed.
The Thursday Lady (currently slouching towards Bethlehem) is Karla's generous gift to book club readers whose meetings combine deep discussion, loving communities, and nuanced conversations about current affairs. In this “very-near-to-present-day" novel, troubling concerns about contemporary politics and values are nudged from fiction to fact when an elderly member of one District of Columbia book club is provoked to a stunning response to the state of the nation. Aurelia Wynter’s decision sets off a national crisis when the Supreme Court Justice she works for is found in his study, full-on dead.
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Karla FC Holloway is James B. Duke Emerita Professor of English, African-American Studies, and Professor of Law at Duke University. Her classrooms and scholarship focused on literature, law, and bioethics.
"But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives." -Toni Morrison
The Thursday Lady (currently slouching towards Bethlehem) is Karla's generous gift to book club readers whose meetings combine deep discussion, loving communities, and nuanced conversations about current affairs. In this “very-near-to-present-day" novel, troubling concerns about contemporary politics and values are nudged from fiction to fact when an elderly member of one District of Columbia book club is provoked to a stunning response to the state of the nation. Aurelia Wynter’s decision sets off a national crisis when the Supreme Court Justice she works for is found in his study, full-on dead.
KEEP UP WITH THE ECLECTIC INTERESTS OF @ProfHolloway ON TWITTER!
Karla FC Holloway is James B. Duke Emerita Professor of English, African-American Studies, and Professor of Law at Duke University. Her classrooms and scholarship focused on literature, law, and bioethics.
"But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives." -Toni Morrison