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2008 winner Junot Diaz has his fans on the edge of their seats as they wait for his latest book,…

Pittsburgh fiction writer Deesha Philyaw dedicated her award-winning short story collection to her daughters “and for everyone trying to get…

In the onslaught of titles published each year, friends of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards can deploy a powerful technique to…

Anisfield-Wolf Fellow Zachary Thomas has sparked an idea that is igniting across Northeast Ohio. In 2016, as a sophomore at…

Eighteen months after the Unite the Right racist violence wracked Charlottesville, the 25th anniversary of the Virginia Festival of the…

Viking, 207 pp, $22 In Zinzi Clemmons’ debut novel, “What We Lose,” grief shadows every page. But like Elizabeth Alexander’s…

“I’ll tell you what freedom is to me—no fear,” Nina Simone wistfully told an interviewer in 1968. “If I could…

Poet Rita Dove introduced Toni Morrison—the only living American Nobel recipient in literature—with joy and grace and poetry at the…

In a popular U.S. high school history textbook, The Americans, there is only one sentence—in passive voice—on housing discrimination among…

The potency of literature went on vivid display in early November when readers gathered around the writers who won this…

One of my close friends, Shanelle Smith, shoved a thick book in my hands as we met for lunch. “You…

If you haven’t read it already, Junot Diaz’ This is How You Lose Her is a terrific collection of short…

Wither the best book list? Inherently inane and crazy-making, these are also undeniably good conversation starters. Amazon has posted the…

Fresh off the paperback release of his newest work, This is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz swung by Cleveland…

Few writers get the opportunity to be popular and well-regarded, particularly with readers’ fickle attention spans. But Junot Diaz seems to be…

2008 winner Junot Diaz recently wrapped up his book tour for his latest book, This Is How You Lose Her,…

Junot Diaz made a lively appearance at Google’s headquarters for its “Authors @ Google” interview series. Watch the video above…

Do you have to be a voracious reader to be a splendid writer? Some might argue that consuming mass quantities…

Junot Diaz’s short story collection This Is How You Lose Her will be published in September. It’s Diaz’s first book since his…

by Charles Ellenbogen Ray Carney has a problem any parent will recognize. The protagonist of “Crook Manifesto” – the second…