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NewsAnisfield-Wolf Fellow Valentino Zullo is Shaping the Future through Comics
“Fantasy drives us all,” declares Professor Valentino L. Zullo, the inaugural Anisfield-Wolf Post-Doctoral Fellow in English and Public Humanities at…
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EventsDonika Kelly & “The Renunciations”
Join us to explore the intersection of self-reflection, creativity, and healing from trauma with author of The Renunciations and 2022 Anisfield-Wolf winner…
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EventsIshmael Reed at the City Club
The New Yorker called Ishmael Reed “a founding father of American multiculturalism,” and “America’s most fearless satirist.” A colleague at…
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EventsBook Discussion: Tiya Miles’ “All That She Carried”
Before Cleveland Book Week officially begins, join Praxis Fiber Arts and the African American Doll and Quilt Guild for a discussion of…
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EventsA Reckoning with Shared History: Lynching and Percival Everett’s “The Trees”
Join Black Environmental Leaders (BEL) and 2022 Anisfield-Wolf winner for fiction Percival Everett in a one-of-a-kind community event. Early in…
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PodcastsSeason 2, Episode 8: Author Mary Morris
Mary Morris won the 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award prize for “The Jazz Palace,” a novel set in her hometown of Chicago…
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News7th Annual Cleveland Book Week Kicks Off September 9
Since 2016, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards have hosted Cleveland Book Week, to celebrate its past and present winners and showcase…
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PodcastsSeason 2, Episode 7: Author Laird Hunt
Laird Hunt is a 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winner for “Kind One,” a haunting novel that explores a horrible and uncanny intimacy…
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PodcastsSeason 2, Episode 6: Historian Vincent Brown
Vincent Brown is a 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winner for “Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War.” It is a groundbreaking investigation into the roots, combatants, cartography and reverberations…
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PodcastsSeason 2, Episode 5: Author Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey, a 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winner for her searing and lyrical memoir about her mother, Gwendolyn Ann Turnbough,…
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PodcastsSeason 2, Episode 4: Poet A. Van Jordan
A. Van Jordan, a 2005 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winner for his nonfiction about a thwarted spelling bee contestant, joins The…
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PodcastsSeason 2, Episode 3: Poet Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang, the 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winner for poetry, joins The Asterisk* to discuss the weather of grief, clarity…
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Events2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Ceremony
Presented by the Cleveland Foundation, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards remain the only American book prize focusing on works that address…
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PodcastsSeason 2, Episode 2: Novelist James McBride
James McBride, the only Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards recipient to win for both fiction and nonfiction titles, joins The Asterisk* to discuss his degree…
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News
In “Shine Bright,” Music Critic Danyel Smith Gets On Stage And Shimmers
In “Shine Bright,” music critic Danyel Smith makes it plain she wants “credit to be given where credit is due.” Subtitled “A Very…
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NewsJoseph Earl Thomas Named New Anisfield-Wolf Fellow At Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Joseph Earl Thomas expects to earn his doctorate in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 2024, but that road…
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BookThe Trees
Percival Everett, a distinguished professor of English at the University of Southern California and erstwhile cowboy, was at work on…
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BookAll That She Carried
Tiya Miles grew up in Cincinnati listening to family stories, a practice that whetted her appetite for history, sparked her…
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BookOf Fear and Strangers
In the introduction to “Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia,” George Makari describes a hinge moment in his…
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Author
Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Scott Reed, poet, novelist, playwright, lyricist, cartoonist, musician and founder of small presses and publications, has remade literature. He…