Tag: danzy senna

  • 2025 Tournament of Books: Colored Television vs. The Extinction of Irena Rey

    2025 Tournament of Books: Colored Television vs. The Extinction of Irena Rey

    Today’s pair of novels is another wildly disparate pairing. Danzy Senna’s Colored Television is a realist portrayal of a novelist and low-ranking academic tempted into television writing, albeit on spec with a producer of dubious motivation. The sole bit of surrealism is when Senna and her family move into a retirement home towards the end of…