Sometimes a novel proves controversial, and the writer finds herself in a courtroom.
Episode by Richard Schur
The script was read by Kassandra Timm.

Richard Schur is Professor of English Program at Drury University. He is the author of Parodies of Ownership: Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law and co-editor (with Lovalerie King) of Justice Unveiled: African American Culture and the Law.

In October 1937, an aspiring, 29-year-old author wrote a negative assessment of a recently published novel. Here's the story of what happened next.

Episode written by Howard Rambsy II
The script was read by Kassandra Timm.

The story of how Black writers and intellectuals made sure that Toni Morrison's novel would be acknowledged for decades. 
Episode written by Courtney Thorsson
The script was read by Kassandra Timm.

Understanding the reception to Ward’s novel  

Episode written by Ebony Lumumba. 

Ebony Lumumba, Ph.D. is an associate professor and chair of English at Jackson State University.  She writes, teaches, and thinks most about Black women's resistance and Global South literature.

The extraordinary reception to a novel about an escape from slavery. 
Episode written by Howard Rambsy II and Elizabeth Cali   

Remarkable Receptions is a podcast where scholars provide intriguing, unusual, illuminating, surprising, controversial, popular, and little-known responses to African American novels.