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What To Expect From Oprah’s Book Club 2.0
2010 Lifetime Achievement winner Oprah Winfrey (do we even need to say her last name?) had big news to share…
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Anisfield-Wolf Authors Hit The Stage At Book Expo 2012
Some of our very own Anisfield-Wolf winners will be in attendance at the 2012 Book Expo at the Javits Center…
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Toni Morrison Discusses “Home” + Receives Presidential Medal Of Freedom
May has been an incredible month for Ms. Morrison. She released her latest novel, Home, to rave reviews and she was…
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Stephen L. Carter’s Latest Novel – What If President Lincoln Survived The Assassination Attempt?
We’ve got a summer reading list a mile long and another title just got added to the pile. Stephen L….
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What’s On Your Summer Reading List?
We don’t know what the weather is like where you live, but this weekend it’s going to hot and humid….
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VIDEO: Gwendolyn Brooks Reads Her Poem, “We Real Cool”
It’s a short poem but it’s also one of Gwendolyn Brooks‘ (pardon the pun) coolest. “We Real Cool,” published in…
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VIDEO: The Rise And Fall Of Jack Johnson
In Geoffrey C. Ward’s Unforgivable Blackness: Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, we are treated to a front row seat…
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Why We’re Very Lucky To Have Henry Louis Gates Jr As Our Jury Chair
We know we highlighted him a few weeks ago, but is something to be said for a man who is…
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While We’re Waiting For The Movie Adaptation Of “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”…
…you can hear about Mohsin Hamid’s role in getting the project to the big screen. Are you as excited for…
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VIDEO: Esi Edugyan: “I’ve Wanted To Be A Writer Since I Was 13”
Often writers feel that urge to put their thoughts out in the world as young children. 2012 Anisfield-Wolf winner Esi…
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VIDEO: Toni Morrison Discusses “Black Is Beautiful”
We’ve been talking about Toni Morrison a lot lately, but we think it’s difficult to provide too much information on…
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Does Toni Morrison’s Latest Stack Up Against Her Previous Works?
It’s not very likely to hear us expressing doubt about Ms. Toni Morrison‘s literary abilities. If anything, our appreciation for…