The work of Fritz Lang gave us “The mediator between the mind and the hand is the heart,” and you have often referred to yourself as representing that heart wherever you are… Even though we weren’t trying to write a book that comments on the current moment, we were just so present in this current moment that it comes through in these future-looking stories. I think that is maybe why the book feels so meta to me. And part of being patient is being present, so that is a big focus for me. It takes the time it takes, and we were actively working on this for two years, not counting the time before when the ideas and dreams–nightmares really–were living in my head. Patience with myself as a creator, patience with the process. In some ways, it taught me what the pandemic was teaching many of us, patience.

Q: With the launch of The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer upon us, can you speak a bit about what the process of authoring this AFROFUTURIST novel taught you about yourself? Grown from the soil of that mythos, the stories in THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN explore the lives of those living in the heart and at the edges of a growing surveillance-hungry, totalitarian order- striving to see and hold on to their “dirtiness” without being tracked down and cleaned.Īs you know, AFROPUNK has been a long-time supporter of the music of Janelle Monáe and the otherness of Cindi Mayweather… And whether human, A.I., or something in-between, citizen’s lives and sentience were dictated by those of the New Dawn, who’d convinced themselves they had the right to decide fate-that was, until Jane 57821 remembered and broke free. Ewing, Yohanca Delgado, and Sheree Renée Thomas have delivered a sexy, soulful, and dissident collection of tales that expands the bold vision of Dirty Computer-in which Monáe introduced us to a world where people’s memories-a key to self-expression and self-understanding-could be controlled or erased by an increasingly powerful few. Janelle Monáe, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, Eve L. From groundbreaking musician, actor, fashion icon and futurist JANELLE MONÁE and an outstanding group of collaborators comes THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN (on sale April 19, 2022), a collection of short fiction, bringing to the written page the rebellious and Afrofuturistic world of Monáe’s critically acclaimed album Dirty Computer.

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