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33 Articles Tagged Literature

Common Reads Literature Disability Studies
March 13 2023

The Open Window: Representation Is for You, Too — A Message from Author Sara Nović

Contributed by Sara Nović, author of True Biz: A Novel. Following students at the River Valley School for the Deaf, True Biz is a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable,

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The Open Window: Representation Is for You, Too — A Message from Author Sara Nović

Common Reads Literature Disability Studies
March 13 2023
General Literature
April 6 2022

Dolen Perkins-Valdez on her new book, Take My Hand

“I believe that in order to heal, we must remember. Once we remember, we acknowledge. Once we acknowledge, we can take more significant action.”   Watch Dolen Perkins-Valdez discuss her inspiration for writing Take My Hand:   Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend intends to make a difference, especially in her African

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Dolen Perkins-Valdez on her new book, Take My Hand

General Literature
April 6 2022
General Literature
March 10 2022

Facts into Fiction: How genealogy and local history enriched the narrative of What Sammy Knew

By David Laskin   After a long career successful in narrative nonfiction (The Children’s Blizzard, The Long Way Home, The Family), I decided a few years ago to jump the fence to fiction. My first novel, What Sammy Knew, is the story of a high school senior named Sammy Stein who, in the first months

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Facts into Fiction: How genealogy and local history enriched the narrative of What Sammy Knew

General Literature
March 10 2022
Literature
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
General Literature History
September 13 2021

Americanon Author Jess McHugh asks “Who gets to tell the American Story?”

By: Jess McHugh   Who gets to tell the American story?   That was the question that preoccupied me in the years of researching and writing Americanon. I was fascinated by the ways in which commonplace books, owned by millions of Americans—from almanacs to primers to cookbooks—shaped and reshaped American identity over generations of reading.

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Americanon Author Jess McHugh asks “Who gets to tell the American Story?”

General Literature History
September 13 2021
Humanities & Social Sciences
September 8 2021

Cathy Park Hong Is Awarded the American Book Award for Minor Feelings

Cathy Park Hong will be awarded the American Book Award for Minor Feelings, a ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness. With sly humor and a poet’s searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and

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Cathy Park Hong Is Awarded the American Book Award for Minor Feelings

Humanities & Social Sciences
September 8 2021
General Literature
August 27 2021

Ben Ehrenreich is awarded the American Book Award for Desert Notebooks

Ben Ehrenreich is being awarded the American Book Award for Desert Notebooks, which examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask

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Ben Ehrenreich is awarded the American Book Award for Desert Notebooks

General Literature
August 27 2021
General Common Reads Literature
August 25 2021

Carolyn Forché is awarded the American Book Award for In the Lateness of the World

Carolyn Forché is being awarded the American Book Award for In the Lateness of the World, a tenebrous book of crossings, of migrations across oceans and borders but also between the present and the past, life and death. The world here seems to be steadily vanishing, but in the moments before the uncertain end, an illumination

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Carolyn Forché is awarded the American Book Award for In the Lateness of the World

General Common Reads Literature
August 25 2021
Literature
May 17 2021

A Monthly Update from Penguin Classics

Because what you read matters.   Subscribe to the Penguin Classics Newsletter here.   With May flowers in bloom, we’re looking forward to bringing some to safely reunite with loved ones (Hi, Mom!) and getting some much-needed R&R, even if it’s just on the couch with a book that’s been on our TBR since the before

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Literature
May 17 2021
Literature
April 27 2021

Table of Contents for The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story

In The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story, celebrated editor and anthologist, John Freeman showcases a curated selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including works by such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang.   The

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Table of Contents for The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story

Literature
April 27 2021
Common Reads Literature
April 27 2021

Editor John Freeman on The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story

Editor John Freeman reflects on his journey with the world of short stories in light of the upcoming release of The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story.  Click here  to see the full Table of Contents for The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story.   The Penguin Book of the Modern

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Editor John Freeman on The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story

Common Reads Literature
April 27 2021
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April 6 2021

A Monthly Update from Penguin Classics

  Because what you read matters.   Subscribe to the Penguin Classics Newsletter here.   After a long winter spent indoors (while we’re still prepared for seasonal showers and any unseasonable flurry if we have to), we’re just happy to be able to read outside again and watch nature bloom, so read on for some Classics

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