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Tajja Isen is a Canadian writer, editor, and actress. Her first book, the essay collection Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service, was published in April 2022. As an actress, she is best known for voicing the title character Atomic Betty.
Tajja Isen. I’m the author of the essay collection Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service, which Elle called “often hilarious, always thought-provoking”; Electric Literature called “expansive”; and Kirkus Reviews called “stellar.”.
Tajja Isen is a writer, editor, and voice actor. Her first book, Some of My Best Friends, was published in 2022 and was named a Best Book of the Year by Electric Literature, The Globe and Mail, CBC Books, and Daily Hive.
A fearless and darkly comic essay collection about race, justice, and the limits of good intentions. In this stunning debut, Tajja Isen explores the absurdity of living in a world that apologizes for structural racism, yet makes only cosmetic attempts to solve it.
Apr 7, 2022 · In an excerpt from her new book, Tajja Isen explores her longtime obsession with literary whiteness and how she stopped trying with a focus on "tiny white men."
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...
Tajja Isen. Photo by Karen Isen. 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.
Tajja Isen. Praise. A stunning, fearless, and darkly comic debut essay collection about race, justice, and the limits of good intentions.
Tajja Isen is the author of A Town Called Solace (4.03 avg rating, 25074 ratings, 2672 reviews, published 2021), Some of My Best Friends (3.89 avg rating...
Apr 19, 2022 · In "Some of My Best Friends", Tajja Isen explores a number of her own personal experiences growing up as a Black female in Canada in a series of essays, but takes them all an additional step further - citing legal cases, literary examples, studies in media and history, to support her perspectives.
