Relatively unknown during her life, the artist, filmmaker, and writer Kathleen Collins emerged on the literary scene in 2016 with the posthumous publication of the short story collection Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Her rediscovery continues in Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary, which spans genres to reveal the breadth and depth of the late author’s talent. The compilation is anchored by more of Collins’s short stories, which, striking and powerful in their brevity, reveal the ways in which relationships are both formed and come undone. Also collected here is the work Collins wrote for the screen and stage. And finally, Collins’s raw and prescient diaries are where her nascent ideas about race, gender, marriage, and motherhood first play out on the page. Kathleen Collins’s writing brings to life vibrant characters whose quotidian concerns powerfully illuminate the particular joys, challenges, and heartbreaks rendered by the African-American experience.

Stories:Scapegoat child ; -- Nina Simone ; -- Raschida -- Novel excerpt: Lollie -- (excerpt from an unfinished novel: Lollie : a suburban tale) -- Notes from a black woman's diary -- Letters -- Plays: The brothers : a tragedy in three acts ; -- Remembrance : a play in one act ; -- The reading : a play in one act ; -- Begin the beguine : a play in one act ; -- The healing : a play in one act -- Screenplays: A summer diary ; -- Losing ground.