Some of My Best Friends

And other white lies I've been told

Author Tajja Isen

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A stunning, fearless, and darkly comic debut essay collection about race, justice, and the limits of good intentions.

In this "expansive" (Electric Literature) and "stellar" (Kirkus Reviews) collection, Tajja Isen braids cultural criticism with personal narrative to examine a common, exasperating pattern in our daily lives: how industries—like entertainment, media, the law, and publishing—have become very good at speaking the language of equity but don't always follow through.

Through nine "often hilarious, always thought-provoking" (ELLE) essays, Isen explores that discord with razor-sharp humour. Troubling though this contradiction may be, she oberves, it can also be unexpectedly funny.

"An inspiring, determined work" (Saeed Jones), Some of My Best Friends is a brilliantly incisive examination of the gaps between what we say and what we…

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February 27, 2024

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TAJJA ISEN's first book, Some of My Best Friends, was named a Best Book of the Year by outlets including Electric Literature, The Globe and Mail, and CBC Books. The former editor-in-chief of Catapult Magazine, she has also edited for The Walrus and Electric Literature, and she co-edited the essay anthology The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Time, BuzzFeed News, and numerous other publications. Also a voice actor, Isen can be heard on such animated shows as Atomic Betty, The Berenstain Bears, Super Why!, Go, Dog. Go!, Jane and the Dragon, and many others.