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The Center for Literary Arts is pleased to present acclaimed author Danzy Senna, in a reading from her new, novel Colored Television. This event takes place on Thursday, February 5, 2026, at Hammer Theatre at 6:30 PM.

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“Senna writes beautifully about the complexity of identity, the intersection of racial consciousness, and class awareness, and individual perspective.” – Vogue

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Danzy Senna is the author of six critically acclaimed books of fiction and nonfiction. Her first novel, Caucasia, won the Book of the Month Award for First Fiction and the American Library Association’s Alex Award. The book was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was named a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Senna’s debut has been translated into twelve languages and become a modern classic.

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Senna’s latest novel, Colored Television, is a brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention that has been praised as a “brilliant, of-the-moment, just really almost perfect book” (Kirkus Reviews). Protagonist Jane is a struggling California novelist with high hopes that her life is about to turn around, making a desperate attempt to start a career in television. A house-sitting gig gives Jane the time and space she needs to finish her second novel—a centuries-spanning epic her artist husband, Lenny, dubs her “mulatto War and Peace.” When she starts collaborating with network producer Hampton Ford, things finally seem to be going right for Jane—until they go terribly wrong. An instant national bestseller, Colored Television was longlisted for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. It was also a Good Morning America Book Club pick and was named as a Best Book of 2024 by The Washington Post, The New York Times and Time magazine.

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This event is made possible thanks to the support of the Lewandowski Family Foundation, and the College of Humanities and the Arts' Artist Excellence Programming Grant.