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	<title>Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards</title>
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		<title>While We&#8217;re Waiting For The Movie Adaptation Of &#8220;The Reluctant Fundamentalist&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;you can hear about Mohsin Hamid&#8217;s role in getting the project to the big screen. Are you as excited for the adaptation as we are?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/2012/05/while-were-waiting-for-the-movie-adaptation-of-the-reluctant-fundamentalist/</link>
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		<title>What Do Readers Have To Say About Anisfield-Wolf Winners?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are celebrating 77 years of recognizing authors and works that contribute to the global dialogue around race and diversity. We&#8217;ve honored some of the greatest—from Toni Morrison to Langston Hughes to Isabel Wilkerson to Taylor Branch. With the redesign of our website, we&#8217;ve made it easier for you to find the books they were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/2012/05/what-do-readers-have-to-say-about-anisfield-wolf-winners/</link>
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		<title>VIDEO: Esi Edugyan: &#8220;I&#8217;ve Wanted To Be A Writer Since I Was 13&#8243;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Often writers feel that urge to put their thoughts out in the world as young children. 2012 Anisfield-Wolf winner Esi Edugyan felt the bug as a pre-teen after she drafted a piece of poetry that was so good, her mother insisted she must have copied it from a book. From then on, being a writer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/2012/05/video-esi-edugyan-ive-wanted-to-be-a-writer-since-i-was-13/</link>
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		<title>VIDEO: Toni Morrison Discusses &#8220;Black Is Beautiful&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been talking about Toni Morrison a lot lately, but we think it&#8217;s difficult to provide too much information on one of our greatest living writers. Bookriot named May 8 &#8220;Toni Morrison Day,&#8221; in honor of the release of her newest book, but we&#8217;re going to extend it one day and share one more video [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/2012/05/video-toni-morrison-discusses-black-is-beautiful/</link>
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		<title>Does Toni Morrison&#8217;s Latest Stack Up Against Her Previous Works?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not very likely to hear us expressing doubt about Ms. Toni Morrison&#8216;s literary abilities. If anything, our appreciation for her craft only grows larger with the release of each new work. Her latest novel, Home, explores the homecoming of Frank Money, a Korean War vet who signed up for the service to get away [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/2012/05/does-toni-morrisons-latest-stack-up-against-her-previous-works/</link>
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		<title>VIDEO: Henry Louis Gates Jr. Sheds Light In &#8220;Finding Your Roots&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watch John Lewis and Cory Booker on PBS. See more from Finding Your Roots. It&#8217;s so often repeated that it has lost most of its meaning, but the old saying is true: &#8220;You can&#8217;t know where you&#8217;re going if you don&#8217;t know where you&#8217;ve been.&#8221; Anisfield-Wolf jury chair Skip Gates&#8217; latest PBS show, &#8220;Finding Your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/2012/05/video-henry-louis-gates-jr-sheds-light-in-finding-your-roots/</link>
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		<title>Toni Morrison On Herself: &#8220;The Only Thing I Do For Me Is Writing&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In anticipation for Toni Morrison&#8217;s latest novel, Home, following the story of a Korean War veteran and his return to America in the 1950s, New York magazine wrote one of the best pieces on Toni Morrison that we&#8217;ve ever read. In it, writer  Boris Kachka  examine her feelings on her pen name (Surprise! She hates [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/2012/05/toni-morrison-on-herself-the-only-thing-i-do-for-me-is-writing/</link>
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		<title>VIDEO: Wole Soyinka, 2012 Lifetime Achievement Winner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; We’ll be spending this week exploring the lives and works of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Award winners. Today we&#8217;re recognizing Wole Soyinka, 2012 Lifetime Achievement winner. Apart from his extensive literary career, he has also been incredibly politically active, speaking out and risking his life to protest the corrupt governmental regimes in Nigeria. In 1967, he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/2012/04/video-one-on-one-with-wole-soyinka-2012-lifetime-achievement-winner/</link>
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		<title>VIDEO: David Livingstone Smith On Why Humans Demean Other Humans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This book is the first serious study of the phenomenon of dehumanization,&#8221; David Livingstone Smith says in this recent interview on his book, Less Than Human. &#8220;No one has really looked into what goes on when human beings think of other groups of human beings as sub-human creatures.&#8221;  Check out the full interview to see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/2012/04/video-david-livingstone-smith-on-why-humans-demean-other-humans/</link>
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		<title>5 Things To Know About Esi Edugyan, 2012 Winner For Fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ll be spending this week exploring the lives and works of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Award winners. Today we&#8217;re recognizing Esi Edugyan, who won the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Award for Half-Blood Blues.  She counts Leo Tolstoy and Alice Munro among her favorite writers of all time: &#8220;Tolstoy has given me the most, year after year, without fail. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/2012/04/5-things-to-know-about-esi-edugyan-2012-winner-for-fiction/</link>
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