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VIDEO: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie On Becoming Black: “This Identity Was Weighted With Stereotypes”
October 8, 2014
“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
October 3, 2014
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.”
October 1, 2014
“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
September 29, 2014
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”
September 24, 2014
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
September 23, 2014
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
September 19, 2014
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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Adrian Matejka’s Poetry Hits The Canvas At Cleveland’s Old Angle Boxing Gym
September 15, 2014
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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REVIEW: Laird Hunt’s “Neverhome” Takes Readers On A Mesmerizing Journey
September 9, 2014
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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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Launches Real-Life “Americanah” Blog
September 4, 2014
Last year, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie created Ifemelu, the protagonist and blogger in her novel “Americanah,” one of the smartest and…
