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Mateo Askaripour on the "Father of African Cinema"
May 2, 2019
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Mateo Askaripour
Mateo Askaripour’s work aims to help people of color, especially those in traditionally white environments, know they, too, deserve to thrive in those spaces. He’s currently working on his first novel and his writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Catapult, and Medium. Mateo was a 2018 Rhode Island Writers Colony writer-in-residence. He lives in New York and you can follow him on Twitter at @AskMateo.
Falling in Love with Malcolm X—and His Mastery of Metaphor
"The metaphor reveals a world behind the world of things."
April 10, 2019
By Mateo Askaripour
Why We Write About Our Oldest Wounds
Mateo Askaripour on Racism, Writing, and the Places We Leave Behind
February 8, 2019
By Mateo Askaripour
Toward an Expanded Canon of Black Literature
How Some Black Writers Live, and Some Die
January 3, 2019
By Mateo Askaripour
