Excerpt from 'Freedom,' by Zinzi Clemmons

Vol. 14 of Story Time, featuring an author reading aloud from her work. In this episode, Zinzi Clemmons reads from her new essay collection entitled Freedom (Viking Books).

Zinzi  is the author of What We Lose, which was a finalist for the NBCC John Leonard First Book Prize and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. A National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree, she was raised in Philadelphia by a South African mother and an American father. A cofounder of the literary journal Apogee, she lives in Northern California, where she serves as director of the creative writing program at the Universi...