News
-
Novelist Laird Hunt On The Women Who Influenced His Midwestern Storytelling
February 20, 2017
Laird Hunt, Wikipedia will tell you, “is an American writer, translator and academic.” True, as far as that goes. But…
-
Author Margot Lee Shetterly Shares “Hidden Figures” Origin Story At Case Western Reserve University
February 8, 2017
Seven years ago, Hidden Figures author Margot Lee Shetterly discovered a great untold story in her own hometown. Shetterly, 47, grew up in…
-
REVIEW: Laird Hunt’s “The Evening Road”
February 7, 2017
The Evening Road returns Laird Hunt to Indiana, where the Anisfield-Wolf winner lived on his grandmother’s farm during his high…
-
Author Isabel Wilkerson On Past And Present: “Our Current Divisions Are Neither New Nor Surprising”
January 27, 2017
test
-
In Jacqueline Woodson’s World, The Hard Conversations Come Easy
January 20, 2017
Karen R. Long contributed to the reporting. Every evening in her four-story Brooklyn townhouse, author Jacqueline Woodson and her partner…
-
A Literary President: Obama Reflects On The Books That Gave Him Stamina And Resolve
January 16, 2017
Late at night and through eight grueling years, literature helped sustain the outgoing president of the United States. In a…
-
“Hidden Figures” Is Getting A Lot Of Hollywood Buzz, But Don’t Forget About The Book
January 9, 2017
Type “scientist” into Google and what images do you find? As author Margot Lee Shetterly would describe it, the results are…
-
“Racism Does Not Die Easily”: Reflections On Parallels Between The Japanese And Muslim Experience In America
January 5, 2017
by Matthew Hashiguchi, documentary filmmaker Over the past year, I’ve been asked many times about the correlation between Japanese Americans…
-
Let These Books — From Poetry To The Political — Kick Off Your 2017 Reading List
January 3, 2017
How does one structure a year in reading? The New York Times published the answers of 47 writers and artists…
-
Winners Of 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Bring Courage To Literature
December 20, 2016
Marilynne Robinson – she of the incandescent, Pulitzer-winning prose – wasn’t thinking about her celebrated fiction last month, even though…
-
Tavis Smiley Brings “Courting Justice” To Cleveland
December 12, 2016
Cross the American criminal justice system, and – if you are unlucky — prepare for crushing debt. Here are…
-
Historian Michael Twitty Sets “A Place At The Table,” Serves Up A Hearty Helping Of Culinary Justice
December 8, 2016
“Call soul food what it is: the edible scripture of the Black aesthetic, the culinary answer to jazz, memory food…
