{"product_id":"notes-from-a-black-womans-diary-selected-works-of-kathleen-collins-9780062800954","title":"Notes from a Black Woman's Diary: Selected Works of Kathleen Collins","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2019 FROM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eVanity Fair * Vogue * The Huffington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA stunning collection of fiction, diary entries, screenplays, and scripts by the brilliant African-American artist and filmmaker\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRelatively unknown during her life, the artist, filmmaker, and writer Kathleen Collins emerged on the literary scene in 2016 with the posthumous publication of the short story collection \u003cem\u003eWhatever Happened to Interracial Love?\u003c\/em\u003e Said Zadie Smith, \"To be this good and yet to be ignored is shameful, but her rediscovery is a great piece of luck for us.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat rediscovery continues in \u003cem\u003eNotes from a Black Woman's Diary, \u003c\/em\u003ewhich spans genres to reveal the breadth and depth of the late author's talent. The compilation is anchored by more of Collins's short stories, which, striking and powerful in their brevity, reveal the ways in which relationships are both formed and come undone. Also collected here is the work Collins wrote for the screen and stage: the screenplay of her film \u003cem\u003eLosing Ground, \u003c\/em\u003e in which a professor discovers that the student film she's agreed to act in has uncomfortable parallels to her own life; and the script for \u003cem\u003eThe Brothers, \u003c\/em\u003ea play about the potent effects of sexism and racism on a midcentury middle-class black family. And finally, it is in Collins's raw and prescient diaries that her nascent ideas about race, gender, marriage, and motherhood first play out on the page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKathleen Collins's writing brings to life vibrant characters whose quotidian concerns powerfully illuminate the particular joys, challenges, and heartbreaks rendered by the African-American experience. By turns empowering, exuberant, sexy, and poignant, \u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes from a Black Woman's Diary \u003c\/em\u003eis a brilliant compendium of an inimitable talent, and a rich portrait of a writer hard at work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCollins, Kathleen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eKathleen Collins, who died in 1988 at age forty-six, was an African-American playwright, writer, filmmaker, director, and educator from Jersey City. She was the first black woman to produce a feature length film.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50459915550994,"sku":"9780062800954","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_323f9bc4-f507-44bc-86c5-550bf303c945.jpg?v=1730014940","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/notes-from-a-black-womans-diary-selected-works-of-kathleen-collins-9780062800954","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}