marginalia no. 22

Toni Cade Bambara and West Feliciana, Louisiana

Just under the wire after a last week packed with good, delicious things. More purple pen, more printed pages.

Shoot me a line, let me know what you’re reading these days.

Texts:

• Rashauna Johnson, Sweet Home Feliciana: Family, Slavery, and the Hauntings of History (Cambridge University Press, 2026).

• Toni Cade Bambara, Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009).

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