{"id":4950,"date":"2014-12-29T18:50:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T18:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themes.bdayh.com\/magic-mag\/?p=181"},"modified":"2021-06-27T13:50:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T18:50:34","slug":"10-authors-of-color-to-keep-an-eye-on-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/10-authors-of-color-to-keep-an-eye-on-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"10 authors of color to keep an eye on in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\nYour book list is going to get a bit longer.<\/p>\n<p>For 2015, we want to shine a light on a few diverse authors whom everyone should know. Though not perfectly comprehensive, we&#8217;ve highlighted writers who demand your attention. Some have been around for a while and are finally on the rise, while others just made their debuts in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO: The 10 Best YA Books of 2014<\/p>\n<p>While not all of these people are coming out with new work in 2015, here are 10 authors you should definitely read in the new year.<\/p>\n<h2>MK Asante<\/h2>\n<p>In 2013, MK Asante wrote a memoir called Buck, which detailed the Nigerian native&#8217;s youth in the grime-riddled streets of Philadelphia. He&#8217;s currently a fellow at the Sundance Feature Film Institute, working on the book&#8217;s film adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>Asante has also released three books of poetry and directed three documentaries, in case you want to feel bad about your own creative output.<\/p>\n<p>UK-based author Nikesh Shukla is just like us \u2014 obsessed with the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the author released his meta, zeitgeist-y second novel, Meatspace, a comical meditation on loneliness about a social media-obsessed struggling author.<\/p>\n<p>To promote the book, Shukla and his friend Nick Hearne, a graphic artist, attached a GoPro camera a weather balloon carrying a lamb chop-wielding fork. The resulting footage is pretty phenomenal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your book list is going to get a bit longer. For 2015, we want to shine a light on a few diverse authors whom everyone should know. Though not perfectly comprehensive, we&#8217;ve highlighted writers who demand your attention. Some have been around for a while and are finally on the rise, while others just made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25417,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions\/25417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}