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REVIEW: “Half Of A Yellow Sun” Adaptation Tackles A Violent History With A Emphasis On Humanity
Half of a Yellow Sun is now available on iTunes and other video streaming services. by Lisa Nielson The film…
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VIDEO: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie On Becoming Black: “This Identity Was Weighted With Stereotypes”
“When you’re not born in the U.S. and you’re a person of African descent, in some ways identifying as black…
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REVIEW: Charles M. Blow’s “Fire Up In My Bones” Opens New Conversation On Masculinity
New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow opens his memoir, “Fire Up In My Bones,” with a face full of…
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Zadie Smith Talks Creativity At CWRU: “I Much Prefer Writing At This Age Than When I Was 24.”
“Cleveland has always been incredibly nice to me,” novelist Zadie Smith said as she took the podium at Case Western…
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VIDEO: 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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Laird 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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Anisfield-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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VIDEO: 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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VIDEO: 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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VIDEO: 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