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    With Her Historical Epic <i>Palmares,</i> Gayl Jones Makes Her Long-Awaited Literary Return
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    September 29 2021

    With Her Historical Epic Palmares, Gayl Jones Makes Her Long-Awaited Literary Return

    It was a long wait before Gayl Jones broke her years of silence. When Toni Morrison first discovered her, she said “no novel about any Black woman could ever be the same after this” upon reading the manuscript for Corregidora. It was published in 1975 when Jones was twenty-six. She followed up her debut novel with Eva’s

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    With Her Historical Epic Palmares, Gayl Jones Makes Her Long-Awaited Literary Return

    Literature
    September 29 2021
    Rediscovering the Sly, Seductive Jazz Mysteries of Charlotte Carter
    Literature
    September 8 2021

    Rediscovering the Sly, Seductive Jazz Mysteries of Charlotte Carter

    Thirty years ago, Carter addressed racism, colorism, classism, and sexism head on. Her books feel just as relevant today.   This essay by Caitlin Landuyt, editor, Vintage Books, was previously published on Crime Reads   Nanette Hayes, the Black jazz saxophonist/Francophile/reluctant crime solver of Charlotte Carter’s Rhode Island Red, Coq au Vin, and Drumsticks, blew into my life

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    Rediscovering the Sly, Seductive Jazz Mysteries of Charlotte Carter

    Literature
    September 8 2021
    William Melvin Kelley is awarded the American Book Award for DUNFORDS TRAVELS EVERYWHERES
    Literature
    August 25 2021

    William Melvin Kelley is awarded the American Book Award for DUNFORDS TRAVELS EVERYWHERES

    William Melvin Kelley and illustrator Aiki Kelley are being awarded the American Book Award for Dunfords Travels Everywheres, a Joycean, Rabelaisian romp in which he brings back some of his most memorable characters in a novel of three intertwining stories.   “Among the most innovative and exciting novelists in the history of international literature, the

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    William Melvin Kelley is awarded the American Book Award for DUNFORDS TRAVELS EVERYWHERES

    Literature
    August 25 2021
    An Excerpt from Richard Wright’s <i>The Man Who Lived Underground</i>
    Literature
    April 5 2021

    An Excerpt from Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground

    Richard Wright (1908–1960) is one of the most influential African American writers of the last century. But in the 1940s, at the height of his creative powers, he was unable to secure publication of perhaps his most important novel. Now, for the first time, by special arrangement with the author’s estate, Library of America is publishing

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    An Excerpt from Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground

    Literature
    April 5 2021
    Remembering William Melvin Kelley, author of A DIFFERENT DRUMMER
    Literature
    November 20 2020

    Remembering William Melvin Kelley, author of A DIFFERENT DRUMMER

    Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University Anthony Reed remembers William Melvin Kelley.   William Melvin Kelley is often described as a “lost” or “forgotten” author. Those who needed to know about him have always had a way of finding him. As a young writer, interested in fiction and poetry, I knew a lot about

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    Remembering William Melvin Kelley, author of A DIFFERENT DRUMMER

    Literature
    November 20 2020
    Transcendent Kingdom is Yaa Gyasi’s powerful follow-up to Homegoing
    Literature
    September 24 2020

    Transcendent Kingdom is Yaa Gyasi’s powerful follow-up to Homegoing

    Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi’s stunning follow-up to her award-winning novel Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered story about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.   Transcendent Kingdom Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and

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    Transcendent Kingdom is Yaa Gyasi’s powerful follow-up to Homegoing

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    September 24 2020
    Riverhead Recommends: Black Voices and Stories
    Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences Literature
    August 3 2020

    Riverhead Recommends: Black Voices and Stories

    Founded in 1994, Riverhead Books publishes bestselling literary fiction and quality nonfiction. Throughout its history, Riverhead has been dedicated to publishing extraordinary groundbreaking, unique writers including Danielle Evans, Danzy Senna, and James McBride. Collected here are some works from Black writers published by Riverhead. Their stories articulate the Black experience in America and give voice

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    Riverhead Recommends: Black Voices and Stories

    Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences Literature
    August 3 2020
    A Monthly Update from Penguin Classics
    General Humanities & Social Sciences
    July 29 2020

    A Monthly Update from Penguin Classics

    Because what you read matters. Subscribe to the Penguin Classics Newsletter here. Black Lives Matter. Black Voices Matter. Black Stories Matter. This month we’re sharing a few of the works by Black authors we have been learning from lately. Let us know on social media the Black voices and stories you’re reading this month (we’re @PenguinClassics everywhere). Nonfiction—History: The

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    A Monthly Update from Penguin Classics

    General Humanities & Social Sciences
    July 29 2020
    Penguin Presents Classics in African American Literature
    Humanities & Social Sciences
    June 8 2020

    Penguin Presents Classics in African American Literature

    Because what you read matters. Subscribe to the Penguin Classics Newsletter here. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Presented here are some

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    Penguin Presents Classics in African American Literature

    Humanities & Social Sciences
    June 8 2020
    Colson Whitehead has won his second Pulitzer Prize for THE NICKEL BOYS
    Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
    May 8 2020

    Colson Whitehead has won his second Pulitzer Prize for THE NICKEL BOYS

    Colson Whitehead has won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Nickel Boys. This is his second Pulitzer Prize (his novel The Underground Railroad won in 2017) and he is only the fourth writer—alongside Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and John Updike—to win two Pulitzer Prizes each in the Fiction category. Winner, ALA Alex Award Winner,

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    Colson Whitehead has won his second Pulitzer Prize for THE NICKEL BOYS

    Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
    May 8 2020
    Interviews, Reviews, and News: Colson Whitehead’s <i>The Nickel Boys</i>
    Humanities & Social Sciences
    August 1 2019

    Interviews, Reviews, and News: Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys

    Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad received glowing critical reception upon its publication, earning him the National Book Award and the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His highly anticipated follow-up novel The Nickel Boys faced the threat of being overshadowed by its predecessor, but has quickly earned a spotlight of its own. We’ve put together a

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    Interviews, Reviews, and News: Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys

    Humanities & Social Sciences
    August 1 2019
    FROM THE PAGE: <i>Washington Black</i>
    Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
    May 17 2019

    FROM THE PAGE: Washington Black

    Washington Black follows “Wash” Black, an eleven-year-old field slave on a sugar plantation in Barbados. When Wash’s old master dies, the plantation’s already dire living conditions immediately worsen. Wash is then selected to become a manservant to his new master’s brother, a man who, as it turns out, is not only an abolitionist, but an inventor,

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    FROM THE PAGE: Washington Black

    Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
    May 17 2019
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