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Carole V. Bell

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Covers:  Popular culture and politics, race and media, books, film and television
🇯🇲Critic & researcher. UNC J-School PhD. Books, TV, Film & Democracy. Words: @NPRBooks @NYTimes @LATimes @WashingtonPost @BostonGlobe @Indiewire @TheAtlantic

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Carole V. Bell’s Biography

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I am a culture critic, writer and communication researcher, an avid reader, and an ardent film, art and music enthusiast. I'm interested in the intersection of media, politics, and public policy and how communication influences attitudes towards race, gender and sexuality.

I'm a contributor to the Black Love Matters essay anthology from Berkley (Feb 2022), Parasocial Politics: Audience Readings of Cultural Politics in Pop Culture (Rowman and Littlefield), and The Encyclopedia of Social Media a…

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Review | 'Swift River,' a sparkling debut about a young girl you'll never forget

Review | 'Swift River,' a sparkling debut about a young girl you'll never forget

In Essie Chambers's novel, Diamond Newberry learns about her family's history seven years after her father di…

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Why Patricia Highsmith's most famous creature, Tom Ripley, continues to fascinate

Why Patricia Highsmith's most famous creature, Tom Ripley, continues to fascinate

Sinister and visually stunning, the new Netflix series Ripley reminds us why Patricia Highsmith's book The Ta…

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Celeste Ng’s Our Missing Hearts Is a Timeless Depiction of Motherhood and Adolescence

Celeste Ng’s Our Missing Hearts Is a Timeless Depiction of Motherhood and Adolescence

The “Little Fires Everywhere” author’s latest is a galvanic and urgent novel of social and familial upheaval.

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Crime Fiction Goes Global and Diverse, as These 20 Books by Women Writers Show

Crime Fiction Goes Global and Diverse, as These 20 Books by Women Writers Show

Though popular, crime fiction has a somewhat checkered reputation: On-screen or on the page, pro-police propa…

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So You're Rivals? And You're Fake-Dating? Classic.

So You're Rivals? And You're Fake-Dating? Classic.

In her debut romance novel, "Honey and Spice," Bolu Babalola plays with familiar literary romance tropes to e…

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Percival Everett's Latest Grounds Racial Allegory In History, Horror And Blood

Percival Everett's Latest Grounds Racial Allegory In History, Horror And Blood

At a certain point, dark social satire bleeds into horror. That can be powerful, but it can also very easily …

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Book review of The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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A mediocre matrimonial scammer down to his last peso meets his match when he tries to con a hardened spinster in Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s The Intrigue. In 1943 Mexico City, Ulises Linares is a floundering 29-year-old con man with silver just beginning to line his locks.
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The Great Wherever

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Shannon Sanders’ first novel, The Great Wherever, is an ingenious meditation on inheritances material, spiritual and emotional, and a worthy successor to her much-lauded short story collection, Company. Aubrey Lamb has long felt like the underdog in her own story, the problematic black sheep of a successful Black family. A year after her father’s death, while her older sister Bellamy now occupies their childhood home with her dutiful husband and adorable children, Aubrey is flailing.
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Shannon Sanders’ ‘The Great Wherever’ tells the story of the century

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Shannon Sanders crafted her first novel, The Great Wherever—one of the most anticipated debuts of 2026—in the cracks between motherhood and a challenging day job. On the surface, Sanders’ path to publication seems charmed. Her lauded short story collection, Company, was published by the elite indie Graywolf Press, and won the Los Angeles Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes. Many times!

How is social media changing news?

Social media help to diffuse and decentralize the gate keeping power of the media.

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

I constantly take notes and save articles in Evernote. Otter Ai, the automated transcription software, has made interviews 10x easier.