The protagonist of Danzy Senna’s latest novel, Colored Television ... After her civil-rights-activist parents stumble into hot water, her Black father takes off with her darker-skinned sister ...

Danzy Senna, Author, "Colored Television": I mean ... category and Blackness was the inclusionary category. And my parents also knew that that was the identity that they needed to sort of uphold ...

Danzy Senna’s latest book, “Colored Television,” sends ... followed two biracial sisters born in 1970s Boston who are separated by their parents and whose lives take very different paths.

Despite resenting her youth spent going back and forward between divorced parents, Jane sees her own ... This is the New Great American Novel, and Danzy Senna has set the standard.

Danzy Senna’s acerbic satires of art and money ... The memoir was a roving investigation of ancestry and a sobering appraisal of her parents’ infamous marriage. Senna descends from literary ...

There’s a moment of personal reckoning early on in Danzy Senna’s new novel. The biracial protagonist ... novelist with semi-famous literary parents (one a prolific poet, the other an editor ...

"Colored Television" (Riverhead Books), a satirical novel from Danzy Senna (the bestselling author of "Caucasia"), features a writer who can't sell her ambitious book about biracial people in ...

Danzy Senna was born in 1970 ... into existence because I never see them." On her parents getting married in 1968, one year after the Supreme Court's landmark Loving v. Virginia decision ...

Early on in Danzy Senna’s new novel, Colored Television, her biracial writer-professor protagonist, Jane, takes a meeting with Hampton Ford, a Black producer who is pivoting from network to ...

Despite resenting her youth spent going back and forward between divorced parents, Jane sees her own ... This is the New Great American Novel, and Danzy Senna has set the standard.

The protagonist of Danzy Senna’s latest novel, Colored Television ... which she spent torn between broke and acrimonious bohemian parents. In a scene where Jane deals with her daughter ...