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NewsVIDEO: Q&A With George Lamming, 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
George Lamming, who spent decades as a leader of the Caribbean literary Diaspora, won our 2014 Lifetime Achievement award for…
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NewsLaird Hunt Announces Big-Screen Adaptation Of Latest Novel, “Neverhome”
Anisfield-Wolf winning novelist Laird Hunt capped his book tour for the newly-released “Neverhome” by returning to Cleveland this week, arriving…
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NewsAnisfield-Wolf Winners Both Attend And Object To The Brooklyn Book Festival
Brooklyn, N.Y. — The Brooklyn Book Festival—a celebratory, cerebral, free event that runs one Sunday in September—attracted tens of thousands of readers,…
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NewsVIDEO: Anthony Marra On Winning The 2014 Anisfield-Wolf Award For Fiction
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is an intoxicating first book about intersecting lives in war-torn Chechnya. The novel begins as…
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NewsVIDEO: Ari Shavit On Winning The 2014 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award For Nonfiction
Ari Shavit, a columnist for Jerusalem’s daily newspaper Haaretz, spent five years writing My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of…
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NewsVIDEO: Adrian Matejka On Winning The 2014 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award For Poetry
Adrian Matejka’s “The Big Smoke” is a nuanced, polyphonic book that explores the life of boxer Jack Johnson, the first…
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2014 NPR Here & Now: Adrian Matejka
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2014 Awards Program
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2014 Ari Shavit speaks at The City Club
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2014 Awards Ceremony
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NewsAdrian Matejka’s Poetry Hits The Canvas At Cleveland’s Old Angle Boxing Gym
Faded fight posters on the walls at Cleveland’s Old Angle boxing gym served as an authentic backdrop for the poetry…
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NewsREVIEW: Laird Hunt’s “Neverhome” Takes Readers On A Mesmerizing Journey
Laird Hunt’s transfixing new novel “Neverhome” unspools in the voice of a Civil War soldier. It works upon the reader…
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NewsChimamanda Ngozi Adichie Launches Real-Life “Americanah” Blog
Last year, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie created Ifemelu, the protagonist and blogger in her novel “Americanah,” one of the smartest and…
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Take A #LiteracySelfie To Mark International Literacy Day — And Tag A Friend
How can a book lover mark September 8—International Literacy Day? Here’s a notion from the Literacy Cooperative of Cleveland, which…