Literary Criticism, Articles and Interviews
on the Writing of Marita Golden

An Interview with Marita Golden

Books:

Selected List of Reviews of Marita Golden's Books:

A Miracle Everyday

• Publishers Weekly February 22, 1999
• Kirkus Reviews February 1, 1999
• Emerge Magazine—Listed on Emerge's Recommended Reading list

The Edge of Heaven

• "One Family's Secrets and Sorrows," The Washington Post December 21, 1997
• San Francisco Chronicle cited in Editor's Recommended column January 25, 1998
• "Violent Death Shatters a Family That Struggles to Forgive," San Francisco Chronicle January 18, 1998
• Time Out New York December 24-January 8, 1998
• The Baltimore Sun December 14, 1997
• Emerge Magazine December/January 1998—Listed in Emerge's Recommended Reading column
• "Fracture Exposes a Family's Imperfections," Detroit Free Press February 8, 1998
• Library Journal November 1, 1997
• Booklist January 15, 1997
• Kirkus Reviews November 1, 1997
• New York Times Book Review April 5, 1998

Skin Deep: Black and White Women Write About Race

• "Authors As Diverse As Collection of 20 Stories," Minneapolis, Minnesota Star Tribune September 3, 1995
• Essence October 1995
• "Written in Black and White," Indianapolis Star October 15, 1995
• Upscale December/January 1996
• "Both Sides Now," Washington Post July 16, 1995
• "Women on Race," St. Louis Post Dispatch July 16, 1995
• "From One Woman to Another in Black and White," Emerge Magazine 1995

Saving Our Sons: Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World

• USA Today March 9, 1995
• " Black Boys' Dangerous Journey," Tampa Florida Tribune and Times February 26, 1995
• Houston Post March 19, 1995
• "Rearing the Children Most at Risk," The Washington Post January 15, 1995
• "Novelist Returns to Nonfiction to Tell Some Grueling Truths," Philadelphia Tribune February 2, 1995
• "Golden Child," Detroit News January 10, 1995
• "A Mother's Journey Along a Son's Road to Adulthood," Black Issues Book Review June 26, 1997
• Entertainment Weekly January 27, 1995
• "Nurture the Children," Quarterly Black Review April 1995

A Woman's Place

• "Striving and Surviving: Marita Golden's Moving Story of Three Black Women," Washington Post July 30, 1986

And Do Remember Me

• "Two Women Forge a Friendship Shaped by the Civil-Rights Era," Philadelphia Inquirer June 7, 1992
• "Golden Finds Her Voice in 'Remember Me'," Boston Globe July 27, 1992

Long Distance Life

• "Generations of Hope and Sorrow," Washington Post September 17, 1989
• "In The Other Washington," Newsweek February 20, 1989
• "Being Black in the Shadow of the White House," The Detroit News January 21, 1989
• "Middle-Class Blacks—4 Generations," Cleveland Plan Dealer December 24, 1989
• "A Black Family's Odyssey in a Vibrant Life," USA TODAY
• "One of the Best Novels of 1989," The Critic's Pick by Jonathan Yardley The Washington Post 1990

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