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The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer is a collection of short fiction by Janelle Monáe, written in collaboration with Yohanca Delgado, Eve L. Ewing, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, and Sheree Renée Thomas.
May 6, 2022 · The titular story, The Memory Librarian, cowritten with Alaya Dawn Johnson, follows Seshet, a government employee whose job is to gather, catalog, inspect and, if necessary, redact memories routinely collected from the citizens of New Dawn.
Dec 2, 2023 · As a glitch in the memory collection system threatens her precarious position as a Black lesbian Director Librarian, Seshet develops a romance with a Black trans woman and talented chemist named Alethia, who finds a home among the city’s “memory fugitives.”
Apr 21, 2022 · “Memory Librarian” explores a futuristic world in which an organization called the New Dawn takes a Big Brother-esque approach to wiping out human desires deemed abnormal, seeking to create “their...
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“Some new dawns are dark, like a silk hood slipped over a nation’s head, then choked shut. An eclipse. It started that way,” Monáe writes in The Memory Librarian’s introduction. That’s the thing about good science-fiction writing: It feels eerily real and uncanny in its precision. It gives you the framework and language to understand the only partl...
While Dirty Computer might be the most pop-adjacent of Monáe’s studio albums, it features elements from so many genres: funk, hip-hop, R&B, neo soul, electropop, space rock, trap, new wave, futurepop — the list goes on. The narrative of Dirty Computer, and its visuals, though, do share a genre connection with the artist’s earlier work. That genre, ...
In addition to uplifting authors with their platform, Monáe’s collection centers on people of color as well as queer, trans and nonbinary people. For them, the book is about — and for — all the “nerds” and “weirdos,” for everyone who has felt isolated for being unique or living in their truth. “My prayer has always been…[that this book will find] t...
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Apr 17, 2022 · The artist builds on the Afrofuturistic world from her 2018 album in a new short story collection titled The Memory Librarian. She tells NPR about her nightmare that inspired the project.
The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer is a collaborative work with influential writers of the Afrofuturism genre, exploring the expanded mythos Monáe created through her uniquely futuristic yet funky sound.
