“What better way can I help myself and my community than standing on stage and taking off the mask of character,” says Joshua Whitehead about his first essay collection, Making Love With the Land (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), and his transition from writing fiction to nonfiction in this interview for CHCH Morning Live in Canada. Whitehead’s book is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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