richardmurray

I just wish black musicians/thespians will consider animation. I think animation is easier for many more projects but black artists like to be seen, when they can.

Monáe’s ‘Librarian’ Checks Out Voyager

Multihyphenate Janelle Monáe sold a cyberpunk story collection, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories from Dirty Computer, to Harper Voyager. David Pomerico took North American rights from William Morris Endeavor’s Eve Atterman and Suzanne Gluck. Voyager said the book, which Monáe collaborated on with other writers, expands on the Afrofuturistic world she created in her 2018 album Dirty Computer. (The album follows a character named Jane 57821, who breaks free of a worldwide system of thought control ruled by a nebulous group that believes it has the power to decide all creatures’ fates.) The publisher added that the collection, set for April 2022, “explores how different threads of liberation—queerness, race, gender plurality, and love—become tangled with future possibilities of memory and time in such a totalitarian landscape... and what the costs might be when trying to unravel and weave them into freedoms.”

photo credit: Jheyda McGarrell
Janelle Monae

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