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Anisfield-Wolf -Winning Authors Nab Two Pulitzer Prizes
April 16, 2019
David W. Blight and Brent Staples – two Anisfield-Wolf Book Award recipients – discovered this week that each had won…
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“A World Built On Bondage”: Anisfield-Wolf Authors Close The 2019 Virginia Festival Of The Book
April 10, 2019
Eighteen months after the Unite the Right racist violence wracked Charlottesville, the 25th anniversary of the Virginia Festival of the…
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Jericho Brown’s New Poetry Collection “The Tradition” A Daring, Inventive Body Of Work
April 2, 2019
The cover of Jericho Brown’s new poetry collection, The Tradition, features a young black boy, perhaps 10 years old, surrounded…
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Interview with “Afterward” Director Ofra Bloch
March 26, 2019
“As a kid in Israel, my dream was to become a psychoanalyst and a filmmaker,” Ofra Bloch said in a…
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Forthcoming Poetry Collection “Deluge” A Stunning Debut For Leila Chatti
March 21, 2019
Leila Chatti worked six years to create Deluge, 52 poems that the esteemed Copper Canyon Press will publish next year…
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Teaching Anisfield-Wolf In The Classroom
March 20, 2019
By Gabrielle Bychowski How do we talk about racism? How do we talk about sexism? These were two of the…
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Zadie Smith’s “Feel Free” Honored At National Book Critics Circle Awards
March 18, 2019
Zadie Smith, best known for her piercing comic novels, has won a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism for…
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“Afterward,” New Film On Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Premieres At The Cleveland International Film Festival
March 1, 2019
Join us for the Cleveland premiere of “Afterward,” a 94-minute documentary from Jerusalem-born psychoanalyst Ofra Bloch that explores the lingering…
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A Shelf of One’s Own – An Argument for Transgender Literature
February 13, 2019
By Gabrielle Bychowski Sitting at my desk, I set down my copy of A Room of One’s Own, looked over…
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Poet Jericho Brown To Announce 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winners In April
February 8, 2019
Jericho Brown will announce the new class of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners in Cleveland April 4. The charismatic and much-lauded…
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Claudia Rankine On Dismantling Racism And Prepping Cleveland’s Youth For Their Future
January 28, 2019
Poet Claudia Rankine, born 56 years ago in Jamaica, returned to the city of her first college teaching post to…
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“A World Built On Bondage”: Anisfield-Wolf Authors To Close 2019 Virginia Festival Of The Book
January 22, 2019
For the second consecutive year, Anisfield-Wolf award-winning authors will close the Virginia Festival of the Book. On March 24, two…
