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Glory Edim's Well-Read Black Girl started as a social media account and became a literary platform and a movement. Now, Edim is publishing the first in a series of Well-Read Black Girl Books
The series will launch with The Catch by Yrsa Daley-Ward on June 3
The founder and author sat down for a chat about the book ahead of its release
Glory Edim founded Well-Read Black Girl as an Instagram account in 2015, and now she's publishing books under the brand, produced in partnership with Liveright, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
At its inception, WRBG was a social media account that shared "the words and powerful affirmations" of Edim's literary heroes. Now, with an online community of more than 435 thousand members, WRBG has evolved into a movement and litera