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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…
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Take A #LiteracySelfie To Mark International Literacy Day — And Tag A Friend
September 2, 2014
How can a book lover mark September 8—International Literacy Day? Here’s a notion from the Literacy Cooperative of Cleveland, which…
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“What’s It Like To Work With A Bunch Of Black Kids?”
August 28, 2014
BY SARAH MARCUS This post originally appeared in Luna Luna magazine and is reprinted here with permission. All students named…
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Poetry Becomes An Outlet For Cleveland Teens
August 27, 2014
For James LeVan, a 16-year-old Cleveland student at Glenville High School, police brutality became top of mind early this year….
