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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…
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Meet Victoria Chang, 2021 Winner for Poetry
November 22, 2021
In “Obit,” poet Victoria Chang prefers the stark, objective language of the journalistic obituary form to the elegy, overflowing with…
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Meet Vincent Brown, 2021 Winner for Nonfiction
November 15, 2021
We’re all too familiar with the recitation of Black history—both in the US and globally—as an unrelenting catalog of sorrow…
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Author Deesha Philyaw On “Church Ladies” Success, Building Community and Her Plans for HBO
November 9, 2021
Pittsburgh fiction writer Deesha Philyaw dedicated her award-winning short story collection to her daughters “and for everyone trying to get…
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Natasha Trethewey to speak at Ursuline College
October 27, 2021
Join the Ursuline College community for an afternoon conversation with former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, winner of the 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award…
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Celebrating the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards During a Pandemic
September 13, 2021
Mary Fecteau is a senior producer at Ideastream Public Media and director of the 2020 and 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards…
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2021 Anisfield-Wolf Awards Documentary
September 9, 2021
Cleveland Book Week features a one-hour documentary with historian Vincent Brown, poet Victoria Chang, memoirist Natasha Trethewey, novelist James McBride,…
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Author Isabel Wilkerson On “Caste” And This Country’s Racial Moment of Truth
August 22, 2021
Journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson, an authority on the Great Migration and the anthropology of caste, will anchor the Cleveland…
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A Poetic Tribute To MacNolia Cox, Who Paved The Way For Spelling Champion Zaila Avant-garde
July 14, 2021
Two girls, African American eighth graders, separated by geography and time, made a splash at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. …
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With “On Juneteenth,” Annette Gordon-Reed Makes The Holiday And Its Texas Origins Personal
June 16, 2021
The holiday of Juneteenth is deepening its mark on American history. The U.S. Senate voted unanimously this week to make…
