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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…
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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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Cleveland Book Week 2021 Recap
September 30, 2021
This year’s virtual showcase – expanded beyond its usual timeframe – celebrated present and past Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (AWBA) winners…
