Podcast Episodes featuring Danzy Senna

Danzy Senna

Bookish with Sonya Walger - April 30, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
This week my guest is novelist Danzy Senna. Danzy’s works include Caucasia (winner of Whiting Award, LA Times Book of the Year), Symptomatic, Where Did You Sleep Last Night? and You Are Free.  Danzy's Books • Giovanni’s Room, by James Baldwin: 1956 • Quicksand, by Nella Larsen: 1928 • The Easter ...

Race, Identity, and Performance in Danzy Senna's 'New People'

It's Been a Minute - September 05, 2017 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratings
Sam talks to novelist Danzy Senna about her new book, 'New People,' and about race in America, why LA is boring in a good way, black identity, what white people say when they think they're alone, being "professionally black", how her students perform their race, artistic integrity and safe spaces...