Michigan Quarterly Review

Interesting.

This is the exact quote from an interview in the Michigan Quarterly Review.

In the article, it says, And Sittenfeld said she thought that a lot of times people are cynical about a sequel.

And so they said maybe one day there could be a lost chapter.

Desiree Cooper is a 2015 Kresge Artist Fellow, Pulitzer Prize nominated journalist, former attorney and editor of the groundbreaking 2026 anthology, Black Summers, Growing Up in the Urban Outdoors.

Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Oprah Daily, MSNBC Daily, Flash Fiction America 2023, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Rompus, River Teeth, and noted in the Best American Essays 2019. Cooper is the author of the award-winning flash fiction collection, Know the Mother.

Her children's picture book, Nothing Special, is a 2023 Patterson Prize winner and one of the New York Public Library's 10 Best Children's Books of 2022.

During this episode, we welcomed her back to talk about Black Summer's Growing Up in the Urban Outdoors, which is an anthology that she edited.