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REVIEW: Paul Beatty’s “The Sellout” Deserves The Man Booker Prize And Then Some
October 26, 2016
Paul Beatty’s “The Sellout” took home the Man Booker Prize for 2016, making him the first U.S. author to win…
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Salutes First Lady Michelle Obama In New York Times Style Magazine
October 19, 2016
The editors of the New York Times Style magazine invited four woman to write letters of appreciation to Michelle Obama…
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Author And Dancer Brian Seibert In Performance With Oberlin Student Chandler Browne
October 18, 2016
For the last event of the inaugural Cleveland Book Week, Brian Seibert rolled up his cuffs and gave the audience…
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Sociologist Orlando Patterson On African-Americans’ Profound Cultural Influence: “America Is Indelibly Blackish”
October 17, 2016
Orlando Patterson, the public intellectual and Harvard University sociologist, made a deep impression on his audiences in Cleveland in September….
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A Reflection On Growing Up In The Gay Revolution
October 12, 2016
by Lisa Nielson, Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University. I was taking an internet break from my pile of…
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Author And Illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh Infuses Children’s Literature With Real World Messages
October 3, 2016
This Halloween, families can share a treat that lasts longer than candy corn: “Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of…
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VIDEO: Mary Morris On Winning 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Award For Fiction
September 29, 2016
Mary Morris spent close to two decades crafting her jazz-soaked Chicago novel, The Jazz Palace, winner of this year’s Anisfield-Wolf…
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VIDEO: Orlando Patterson On Winning The 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award
“America is indelibly black-ish,” sociologist Orlando Patterson asserted to the audience at Playhouse Square during this year’s awards ceremony. “Trying…
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VIDEO: Rowan Ricardo Phillips On Winning The 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Award For Poetry
September 28, 2016
Cleveland welcomed poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips to town by giving him a good sense of our hometown pride. Visiting only…
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VIDEO: Brian Seibert On Winning The 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Award For Nonfiction
Brian Seibert, the New York Times dance critic and 2016 nonfiction winner for his book, What the Eye Hears: A…
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VIDEO: Lillian Faderman On Winning The 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Award For Nonfiction
From the Playhouse Square stage, Lillian Faderman began her acceptance of this year’s nonfiction award with a story of how…
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“Very Heartfelt And Intellectual”: College Students Reflect On Lillian Faderman
September 27, 2016
When Lillian Faderman spoke at the City Club of Cleveland this September, she ably distilled her ample Anisfield-Wolf winning history,…
