Writing Across Mediums
Featured writers: Zakiya Dalilah Harris and Angela Nissel
Writing for television versus writing memoir versus writing novels with Zakiya Dalilah Harris and Angela Nissel, the authors of The Other Black Girl and The Broke Diaries respectively.
Book signing times (all signings take place in the First Floor Lobby of the library)
🖊️Angela Nissel: 3:00 – 3:20
🖊️Zakiya Dalila Harris: 3:30 – 3:50
About the writers:
ZAKIYA DALILAH HARRIS received her MFA in creative writing from The New School. Her debut novel, The Other Black Girl, was an instant New York Times bestseller and is now a critically acclaimed Hulu Original Series. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in Cosmopolitan, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband.
ANGELA NISSEL is the author of the best-selling memoir The Broke Diaries which was featured on Oprah and details the shady ways she made ends meet as a broke college student. Her third book, Good Grief: Pass The Bread, Mom is Dead details her journey through caretaking and grief, while being sued by her mother’s broke ass ex-husband for kidnapping. In addition to being an author, Angela has staffed in TV writers’ rooms for over 25 years and produced more than 150 episodes of television. Fun facts: Dave Chappelle shouted her out and spilled a joke she told him in confidence in his Netflix special, she serves on the board of Black Girls Film Camp, and also worked briefly as a day-shift stripper.
Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead
by Angela Nissel
Television writer, producer, and bestselling author of the acclaimed The Broke Diaries and Mixed charts her unexpected role as her terminally ill mother’s caretaker in this funny, moving, and unforgettable memoir.
The Other Black Girl
by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Urgent, propulsive, and sharp as a knife, The Other Black Girl is an electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing. A whip-smart and dynamic thriller and sly social commentary that is perfect for anyone who has ever felt manipulated, threatened, or overlooked in the workplace. It is also a hit television show streaming on Hulu!
