Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness

Sep 18, 2016 | Press Releases

Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons – Jane Lazarre “An important affirmation of a white woman’s love of her Black sons. Jane Lazarre, warrior mom, has crossed over.” – Alice Walker “A beautifully written, deeply thoughtful journey into...

Hoarding: A Story

Oct 18, 2015 | Stories

In the last years before her death, Zilla’s mother had become a hoarder. Always a lover of objects – furniture, clothes, radios, televisions, dishes – now those objects owned her three small rooms. With Nathan dead for five years, his places were the first to become...

Jane Lazarre, On the Problems of Breathing in America

Feb 15, 2015 | Stories

“On Having Trouble Breathing,” published in TomDispatch and reprinted in Salon, Mother Jones, The Nation and many other venues on line. This same essay, entitled “Once White in America,” is forthcoming in 2916 in the collection Our Black Sons...

A Conversation With Jane Lazarre

Jan 12, 2012 | Interviews

In the summer of 2009, Lilith excerpted a section of Jane Lazarre’s harrowing novel, Inheritance. The book was recently published and Lilith’s Fiction Editor, Yona Zeldis McDonough, interviewed Lazarre–author of ten books and creator of the undergraduate writing...

Some Place Quite Unknown – A novel by Jane Lazarre

Oct 1, 2011 | Press Releases

Hamilton Stone Editions announces the publication in January 2009 of Some Place Quite Unknown. In her latest novel, Jane Lazarre explores memory and imagination-the intersection between what we have experienced and what we envisage- through a multi-layered telling of...