Janelle Monáe announces short story collection based on ‘Dirty Computer’ songs
Janelle Monáe has announced her inaugural foray into the world of fiction writing, setting a release date for her book The Memory Librarian.Set to arrive on April 19, 2022, the 400-page effort is due to land almost exactly four years since her third studio album, 2018’s ‘Dirty Computer’.The Memory Librarian willserve as a collection of short stories expanding on the record’s concept, further exploring “a world in which thoughts – as a means of self-conception – could be controlled or erased by a select few”.Monáe wrote the book with collaborators Yohanca Delgado, Eve L. Ewing, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore and Sheree Renée Thomas.