Professor Bynum recently published Reading Pleasures (2023) with the University of Illinois Press. Tanner's archive includes letters from her correspondence with Phillis Wheatley. "Wheatley’s letters," Bynum writes, "reveal a friendship that asks us to consider what pleasure and friendship might look like to two enslaved women in New England." Reading Pleasures explores such pleasures: "In the early United States, a Black person committed an act of resistance simply by reading and writing. Yet we overlook that these activities also brought pleasure. Tara A. Bynum tells [...]