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    Book Discussion: Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls, Led by Dr. Valentino Zullo

    September 10, 2025, 1:00 pm

    …of the 1949 Communist victory. After fleeing to Hong Kong, she wrote a bestselling memoir about her persecution and survival―then promptly had a mental breakdown from which she never recovered….

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    The Plague of Doves

    Louise Erdrich

    …No Horse was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her most recent novel, The Plague of Doves, a New York Times bestseller, received the highest praise from Philip Roth,…

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    The Boat

    Nam Le

    …America, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and Phillips Exeter Academy. His fiction has won the Pushcart Prize and appeared in venues including Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007, Zeotrope:…

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    What the Eye Hears

    Brian Seibert

    …classical music’ are established, with well-funded institutions and a thick body of professional and amateur scholarship bestowing cultural respect. Tap is much poorer, scrapper, more vulnerable.” Seibert, a dance critic…

  • Portrait of Ernest J. Gaines
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    Ernest J. Gaines

    …Miss Jane and her community through slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement. The compelling narrative that resulted — still considered Gaines’s masterpiece—became a best-selling book and a…

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    Heaven

    Rowan Ricardo Phillips

    …Foix that best sums up my feelings about all of this —M’exalta el nou i m’enamora el vell, or, “I’m exalted by the new and in love with the old.’”…

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    Manchild in the Promised Land

    Claude Brown

    …school or college. After a return to criminal activities and incarceration, Brown eventually saw education as the best venue for changing his life. Brown attended night classes before moving to…

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    Sweetbitter

    Reginald Gibbons

    …and Triquarterly New Writers (1996), Gibbons has been represented in Best American Poetry and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. Gibbons has taught at Princeton University, Northwestern University, and Warren Wilson College….

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    Burnt Shadows

    Kamila Shamsie

    …1998 and shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, honoring the best work of literature by a young Commonwealth author. In 1999 she received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literature…

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    A Gesture Life

    Chang-rae Lee

    …than eight honors and prizes, including the PEN/Hemingway Award, the American Book Award, and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award.  Time magazine named Native Speaker one of the Year’s Best

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    Horse

    Geraldine Brooks

    …arrived at her Martha’s Vineyard home, her writing stalled. But a chance conversation over lunch provided Brooks a way to wed her equine mania with her penchant for writing best-selling…

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    Simple Takes a Wife

    Langston Hughes

    …Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). It is still perhaps his best-known poem, and it instantly confirmed his potential as a serious writer. At his father’s wish, Hughes…

  • Portrait of William Julius Wilson
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    William Julius Wilson

    …Sydney Spivack Award; The Truly Disadvantaged, which was selected by the editors of the New York Times Book Review as one of the 16 best books of 1987, received The

  • Portrait of Lucille Clifton
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    Lucille Clifton

    …African American culture and explores themes of resistance, adversity and triumph. Good Times was cited by The New York Times as one of the best books of 1969 and introduced…

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    The Masters and the Slaves

    Gilberto Freyre

    …of their own. Gilberto de Mello Freyre was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter and congressman. His best-known work is a sociological treatise named Casa-Grande & Senzala (variously translated,…

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    A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

    Anthony Marra

    …Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford University. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic, Narrative magazine, the 2011 Pushcart Prize anthology and the Best American…

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    The Big Smoke

    Adrian Matejka

    …Mixology, won the 2008 National Poetry Series and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry 2010, Gulf…

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    Donika Kelly & “The Renunciations”

    September 14, 2022, 4:00 pm

    …Michener Center for Writers and a doctorate in English from Vanderbilt University. Her first book of poetry, “Bestiary,” won the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the 2017 Hurston/Wright Award….

  • Portrait of George Lamming
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    George Lamming

    …1998, Lamming said, “It’s a great pity it didn’t come out third or fourth rather than first. I don’t really regard it as the best or biggest of the books….

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    Obit

    Victoria Chang

    for a National Book Critics Award and listed as a best book of 2020 by Time magazine, the Boston Globe and NPR. “To say simply that Chang takes the Modernist’s…