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LISTEN: Karan Mahajan Interviewed On Professional Book Nerds Podcast
At the tail end of Cleveland Book Week, Adam Sockel and Jill Grunenwald, hosts of the “Professional Book Nerds” podcast,…
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WATCH: Poets From Twelve Literary & Performative Arts Bring Anisfield-Wolf To Public Transit
One idea to make the morning commute more bearable for Clevelanders? Add a bit of poetry. That theory was tested…
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Latest Inter|Urban Mural Celebrates Tyehimba Jess’ “Olio”
Tyehimba Jess is a strikingly architectural poet. It makes sense that his 14-line poem, “Blind Tom Plays for Confederate Troops,…
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Andrew Solomon’s “Far From The Tree” Finds A New Life On The Big Screen
Four years after Andrew Solomon took home the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf nonfiction prize for “Far from the Tree,” his work is…
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Cleveland Kids’ Book Bank Named Recipient Of 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Memorial Award
The Cleveland Kids’ Book Bank is a juggernaut. Less than 20 months after its founding in March 2016, it had…
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Michelle Kuo’s “Reading With Patrick” Smashes Predictable White-Savior Tropes In The Classroom
Michelle Kuo, the daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, describes herself as a shy child growing up in western Michigan who rarely…
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REVIEW: “Sing Unburied Sing” Fits Perfectly Into Jesmyn Ward’s Canon Of Southern Literature
The pages of Jesmyn Ward’s third novel, “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” smell of Mississippi. Set in the same fictional town, Bois…
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REVIEW: Adrian Matejka’s “Map To The Stars” Is An Extraordinary Ride
by Charles Ellenbogen Anisfield-Wolf award winner Adrian Matejka has produced another excellent book of poems. I chose the word ‘book’…
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Cleveland Book Week Highlights: Isabel Allende Speaks At The City Club Of Cleveland
During Cleveland Book Week, the incomparable Isabel Allende joked at age 75 about her new boyfriend, and about her approach…
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Cleveland Book Week Highlights: Tyehimba Jess At Karamu House For A Poetry “Clapback”
Tyehimba Jess came home to Karamu House to lift up “Olio,” his magnificently engineered collection of poems that explore black…
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Cleveland Book Week Highlights: “Hidden Figures” Author Margot Lee Shetterly In Conversation With Cleveland Students
Hundreds of Cleveland students joined author Margot Lee Shetterly at Cleveland State University in early September for a student-centric discussion…
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On The Ground In Ferguson And Beyond: Wesley Lowery On Black Lives Matter And Police Fatalities
Thanks to Wesley Lowery and his colleagues at the Washington Post, citizens anywhere can click on the newspaper’s “Fatal Force”…