I’m thrilled to be a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow in General Nonfiction. My application was based on my recent The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives. My proposal: a memoir exploring the recent passing of my parents & their lives.

See this Instagram video excerpt from my book The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself posted on @everydayisjuneteenth instagram.com/reel/C1PGGc8ry…

Thanks to everydayisjunteenth for posting this clip of me reading from The Stories Whitness Tells Itself. See this Instagram video by @everydayisjuneteenth instagram.com/reel/C1PGGc8ry…

Feb. 13, 7pm at Magers&Quinn Bookstore, Mspl: Myself, Carolyn Holbrook, Ebony Jones & Shannon Gibney on African American History:
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In its Best of MN 2023, Minnesota Monthly chose The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself as the Best Nonfiction Book--'a tough but necessary read for anyone who opposes racial oppression'

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I'll be doing a panel & reading on Nov. 2 and a class on 3 for the Grand Marais Arts Council literary festival. See this Instagram post by @gmartcolony instagram.com/p/CwvAsuKuQ4e/…

Episode 206 with David Mura is now up!

Check out these exciting upcoming episodes, including Janky Hotel Foxtrot becoming the podcast's first two-time guest!

He joins his co-editor James Spooner in conversation in November.

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For Star Tribune, Lorraine Berry is on cerulean skies now reviewed Episode 206 guest David Mura The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself.

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In this Episode 206 clip, ⁦David Mura⁩ talks about the ways in which white American leaders have been lionized despite recorded racism, and the ways in which Black Americans thoughts have been discounted and devalued.

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In this Episode 206 clip, ⁦David Mura⁩ emphasizes the ways in which the great James Baldwin saw racism not just as 'political,' but as a moral/spiritual deficiency.

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Peter Riehl interviewed me for his literary podcast on The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself. See this Instagram video by @chillsatwillpodcast instagram.com/reel/Cx5ilRlLy…

“We start writing a book to become the person who can finish the book.”
—David Mura

An very deep conversation with Jack Weinstein, a philosophy professor, on his Why? Radio program about my most recent book The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself. philosophyinpubliclife.org/2023/08/13/the…

Latest podcast is up!
W/ David Mura, on his urgent lay-of-the-land book re the intersection of race & creative writing: The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself.
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Props to producer Daniel Ford + Writer's Bone 🎙 + A MIGHTY BLAZE 📚🕯🔥 where the show first aired....

New episode of The Thoughtful Bro with the thoughtful bro!

Listen to his chat with David Mura: apple.co/3OT7wwv #writers #podcast #writingcommunity #WBPN A MIGHTY BLAZE 📚🕯🔥

Jai Hamid Bashir The four that have been the most use for me in my current work in progress- Craft in the Real World (@salesses), Stranger's Journey(@MuraDavid), Refuse to Be Done(@mdbell79), and Dreyer's English (@BCDreyer).

Here's a link to a MN Public Radio article and interview on the Asian American Renaissance the arts organization I helped start with Valerie Lee and others in 1992: mprnews.org/story/2023/07/…

I’m reading this incredible and challenging book by David Mura after having the privilege of hearing him speak at last week’s Wordplay.

I’m going to thread thoughts and passages as I parse through, but I’m a slow reader, so please bare with me.

I had a thoughtful and wide ranging interview on the podcast Race to Social Justice with Keva White and John Kepner about my book The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives.

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Here's the link to my interview on The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself with Dr. E. Scott England and his podcast Anchored in Education
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