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In “Shine Bright,” Music Critic Danyel Smith Gets On Stage And Shimmers
May 6, 2022
In “Shine Bright,” music critic Danyel Smith makes it plain she wants “credit to be given where credit is due.” Subtitled “A Very…
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Joseph Earl Thomas Named New Anisfield-Wolf Fellow At Cleveland State University Poetry Center
May 4, 2022
Joseph Earl Thomas expects to earn his doctorate in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 2024, but that road…
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Introducing Our Class of 2022
April 5, 2022
The Cleveland Foundation today unveiled the winners of its 87th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2022 recipients of the only…
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Diversifying the Beer Industry “One Pint at A Time”
March 30, 2022
A 2014 road trip to a North Carolina brewery sparked the idea for Aaron Hosé’s film, “One Pint at a…
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Author Daisy Hernández On Writing Personal Stories And What’s Next After “The Kissing Bug”
March 27, 2022
For most of her childhood, professor Daisy Hernández, believed her aunt Dora Capunay Sosa died from eating a contaminated apple….
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Historian Lillian Faderman Follows the Long-Winding Road of Liberation in “Woman”
March 25, 2022
What connects American Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet across 400 years to rapper Cardi B? The answer, for Lillian Faderman, is…
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In “Violeta,” Isabel Allende Gives Us the Grief We Need
March 10, 2022
By Brandi Larsen Isabel Allende has created a lifetime’s body of work full of essential reads. “Violeta,” her latest novel,…
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In “Recitatif,” Toni Morrison Presents New Ways to Look at Race
February 1, 2022
“Recitatif,” a rare Toni Morrison short story, arrives in book form today with a rigorous, close reading from London critic…
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Meet Samuel R. Delany, 2021 Lifetime Achievement Recipient
December 13, 2021
In a career spanning nearly 60 years and encompassing over 40 publications, Samuel R. Delany has written memoirs, novels, literary…
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Meet James McBride, 2021 Winner for Fiction
December 6, 2021
Set in a fictional New York City public housing project in 1969, “Deacon King Kong” begins with a shooting. But…
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Gather In Poems: American Academy of Poetry’s Virtual Offering
December 1, 2021
Four Anisfield-Wolf poets distilled their lines into an hour-long symphony of 15 voices. All are chancellors of the American Academy…
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Meet Natasha Trethewey, 2021 Winner for Nonfiction
November 29, 2021
Born in Mississippi on Confederate Memorial Day in 1966, Natasha Trethewey’s existence was the result of an interracial marriage, still…