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NewsStarting Cleveland Book Week With A Look At How Literacy Changes Lives
Margo Hudson, a Clevelander who won the National Learner Award in Dallas two years ago, reflected recently on how “literacy…
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NewsWhen A Haircut’s Not Just A Haircut: Uplifting Black Boys In The Pages Of “Crown”
The first few pages of Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut look like a coronation. The 2017 children’s book…
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NewsWalter Mosley Tackles the Elusiveness of History in His New Novel, “John Woman”
“John Woman,” the newest novel from prolific and philosophical Walter Mosley, arrives today telling the story of a fugitive genius….
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NewsGet Ready For Cleveland Book Week 2018, Running September 22-29
The third annual Cleveland Book Week runs this year from Sept. 21-29, and will celebrate present and past Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards…
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NewsAndrew Solomon On The Film Adaptation of “Far From The Tree”:
Days ahead of the theatrical debut of the documentary film adapted from his book, Far From the Tree, author Andrew Solomon reflected…
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NewsIn New Harvey Milk Biography, A Portrait Of A Man Gone Too Soon
In 1970, Harvey Milk, a boisterous, restless New Yorker, turned 40 without a sense of having accomplished much. But in…
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NewsGetting Closer To A New Home For Cleveland’s Anisfield-Wolf Book Collection
Works by Langston Hughes, Zadie Smith and Toni Morrison will soon have a new place to call home. All three…
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NewsKevin Powers Delivers A Gritty, Poetic Novel With “A Shout In The Ruins”
A Shout in the Ruins has a ring to it – both as a book and as a title that…
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NewsIsabel Allende’s “The House of The Spirits” On Its Way To Hulu
Add Isabel Allende‘s groundbreaking first novel, “The House of the Spirits,” to the golden age of television adaptations. Streaming giant…
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NewsNatasha Trethewey Brings Passion And Pain To Poetry Reading At Kent State University
Former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey began her talk at Kent State University by claiming kinship with the audience. “I…
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NewsKevin Young Strolls Through Black History In New Poetry Collection, “Brown”
James Brown. John Brown’s raid. Michael Brown. Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. These subjects braid through Kevin Young’s…
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NewsNew Toni Morrison Documentary, “The Foreigner’s Home,” Explores The Meaning Of Belonging
At 87, Toni Morrison is a direct woman. The Nobel laureate in literature has long contemplated her legacy, and the…
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NewsMary Morris Is Back With Latest Novel, “Gateway to the Moon”
With Gateway to the Moon, writer Mary Morris casts a new spell drawing water from some of her favorite wells. Her…
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NewsInterview With Directors Adam Mazo and Ben Pender-Cudlip On Their New Film, “Dawnland”
Boston-based filmmaker Adam Mazo is quick to admit that he knew little about Native populations growing up in Minnesota. He’s…
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NewsIntroducing Our Class Of 2018
The Cleveland Foundation today unveiled the winners of its 83rd Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Marlon James, a 2015 Anisfield-Wolf honoree, made…
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AuthorN. Scott Momaday
His writing emphasizes the radical mystery of nature, and he believes that ‘the highest human purpose is to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.’
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BookIn the Language of My Captor
In its three sections, the reader finds prose memoir and poems in historical persona, including the voice of Jim Limber, the mixed-race son whom Jefferson Davis adopted during the last year of the Civil War.
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BookSing, Unburied, Sing
Growing up in DeLisle, Mississippi has influenced me in many ways. Growing up here taught me to appreciate beauty, the beauty of the bayous and of the forests and of the Gulf. Growing up in this community taught me to appreciate storytelling, taught me to appreciate language.
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2018 Press Release: Winners Announced
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BookBunk
The word “bunk” itself comes from politics, sourced to a congressional debate over the Missouri Compromise and slavery. Young connects the timing of the development of our modern notion of race—itself a falsehood—with the coining of the word ‘hoax.’