![]() We spend the rest of the hour with Ta-Nehisi Coates. It was just unveiled as the first selection of Oprah’s new Book Club. Now he has completed his first novel, The Water Dancer, out today. In addition to his nonfiction writing, Ta-Nehisi Coates began writing comics in 2016, authoring his own Black Panther series. His 2015 book, Between the World and Me, was written as a letter to his adolescent son. Earlier this year, Coates testified on Capitol Hill about reparations. ![]() ![]() In 2014, he wrote a piece titled “The Case for Reparations,” which rejuvenated the push for the government to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves. Over the past decade Ta-Nehisi Coates has become one of the nation’s most celebrated writers. ![]() A review in The New York Times calls The Water Dancer a, quote, “crowd-pleasing exercise in breakneck and often occult storytelling that tonally resembles the work of Stephen King as much as it does the work of Toni Morrison, Colson Whitehead and the touchstone African-American science-fiction writer Octavia Butler.” It centers on a man named Hiram Walker, who was born into slavery in 19th century Virginia. That’s the name of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ first novel, published today. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman. ![]()
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