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Review: Who Knows You by Heart

Synopsis: Part social thriller, part modern love story, Who Knows You by Heart is a sly, witty, and endlessly discussable tale of Big Tech, new money, relationships, race, and discovering what’s real in an age of artificial intelligence. Octavia Crenshaw, a Jamaican-American coder living in Manhattan, is broke, burned out, and haunted by her parents’ deaths. Desperate to pay off some debts, she…

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Who Knows You by Heart: A Novel

By C.J. Farley.

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Book Review: "Around Harvard Square" by C.J. Farley - http://blog.mugglenet.com/2019/04/book-review-around-harvard-square-by-c-j-farley/

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Video on Today: C.J. Farley, a Wall Street Journal editor, and Jessica Lahey, a former middle school teacher, join TODAY to talk about whether boys and girls should stop reading gender-specific books.

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Children’s Fantasy Fiction Needs More Characters of Color

There is a woeful absence of diverse characters in children’s fiction, but here are some books to enrich your kid’s fantasy life.

C.J. Farley, author of the middle-grade fantasy novel Game World, discusses diversity in children's fantasy at The Root.

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Interview with a Middle-Grade Reader + Book Review: Gameworld by C.J. Farley

Interview with a Middle-Grade Reader + Book Review: Gameworld by C.J. Farley

Akashic Books has long been at the indie forefront of interesting literature. Along with other fun releases like Simon’s Cat and Go the F—k to Sleep, they’ve expanded their stable to include books aimed at middle grade and young adult readers under their new imprint, Black Sheep. Game Worldby C.J. Farley is one of their first releases, and it’s a diverse, impressive world aimed at the advanced…

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The Apartheid of Children'€™s Literature

Perhaps this exclusivity, in which children of color are at best background characters, and more often than not absent, is in fact part of the imaginative aspect of these books. But what it means is that when kids today face the realities of our world, our global economies, our integrations and overlappings, they all do so without a proper map. They are navigating the streets and avenues of their lives with an inadequate, outdated chart, and we wonder why they feel lost. They are threatened by difference, and desperately try to wish the world into some more familiar form. As for children of color, they recognize the boundaries being imposed upon their imaginations, and are certain to imagine themselves well within the borders they are offered, to color themselves inside the lines.

Click through above to read Christopher Myers's "The Apartheid of Children's Literature" at the New York Times. Game World author C.J. Farley addresses the same issue at the Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog in a post titled "The Lost Boys and Girls of Children's Literature," and in a post for Akashic's website, "Why We Write."