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BookThe Renunciations
Donika Kelly spent her first 13 years in Los Angeles, born into a time and place where tenderness, as she…
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NewsIntroducing Our Class of 2022
The Cleveland Foundation today unveiled the winners of its 87th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2022 recipients of the only…
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NewsDiversifying the Beer Industry “One Pint at A Time”
A 2014 road trip to a North Carolina brewery sparked the idea for Aaron Hosé’s film, “One Pint at a…
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NewsAuthor Daisy Hernández On Writing Personal Stories And What’s Next After “The Kissing Bug”
For most of her childhood, professor Daisy Hernández, believed her aunt Dora Capunay Sosa died from eating a contaminated apple….
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NewsHistorian Lillian Faderman Follows the Long-Winding Road of Liberation in “Woman”
What connects American Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet across 400 years to rapper Cardi B? The answer, for Lillian Faderman, is…
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NewsIn “Violeta,” Isabel Allende Gives Us the Grief We Need
By Brandi Larsen Isabel Allende has created a lifetime’s body of work full of essential reads. “Violeta,” her latest novel,…
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EventsA Tribute to Russell Atkins
Cave Canem and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards invite you to celebrate Black History Month by joining in “A Tribute to…
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NewsMeet James McBride, 2021 Winner for Fiction
Set in a fictional New York City public housing project in 1969, “Deacon King Kong” begins with a shooting. But…
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NewsMeet Natasha Trethewey, 2021 Winner for Nonfiction
Born in Mississippi on Confederate Memorial Day in 1966, Natasha Trethewey’s existence was the result of an interracial marriage, still…
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NewsMeet Vincent Brown, 2021 Winner for Nonfiction
We’re all too familiar with the recitation of Black history—both in the US and globally—as an unrelenting catalog of sorrow…
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NewsAuthor Deesha Philyaw On “Church Ladies” Success, Building Community and Her Plans for HBO
Pittsburgh fiction writer Deesha Philyaw dedicated her award-winning short story collection to her daughters “and for everyone trying to get…
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2021 IdeaStream: Author Samuel R. Delany
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Natasha Trethewey to speak at Ursuline College
Join the Ursuline College community for an afternoon conversation with former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, winner of the 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award…
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Cleveland Book Week 2021 Recap
This year’s virtual showcase – expanded beyond its usual timeframe – celebrated present and past Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (AWBA) winners…
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NewsCelebrating the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards During a Pandemic
Mary Fecteau is a senior producer at Ideastream Public Media and director of the 2020 and 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards…
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2021 Anisfield-Wolf Awards Documentary
Cleveland Book Week features a one-hour documentary with historian Vincent Brown, poet Victoria Chang, memoirist Natasha Trethewey, novelist James McBride,…
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2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Documentary
Cleveland Book Week features a one-hour documentary with historian Vincent Brown, poet Victoria Chang, memoirist Natasha Trethewey, novelist James McBride,…
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EventsCIFF + AWBA Streams Film Selections
Viewers will have the opportunity to stream free Cleveland International Film Festival documentaries, all with an Anisfield-Wolfian flavor, from September…
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EventsCleveland Public Library: Ayana Gray and “Beasts of Prey”
Meet the author of this much-anticipated young adult series opener in the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Rainforest. In “Beasts of Prey,” fate…
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EventsWriters Center Stage: Richard Powers
The William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage Series brings the literary world’s best writers to Cleveland. The 2021-2022 series is…