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Maxine Hong Kingston, bell hooks among those honored by Ishmael Reed's Before Columbus Foundation
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 8 months agoNEW YORK (AP) — Maxine Hong Kingston, Darryl Pinckney and the late bell hooks were among the authors...
This fascinating, colorful Harlem house is home to 10,000 books, and a literary couple
Homes & Gardens via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHeader When British poet James Fenton and American writer Darryl Pinckney found their 1890 house in...
Review: How Elizabeth Hardwick taught a young Black critic to read, write and laugh
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen I was young and still working in book publishing, a rare and generous boss took note. “If you want to write,” he said, “you must read Elizabeth Hardwick. ‘Seduction and Betrayal.’” After ...
Shortlist announced for one of UK’s oldest literature competitions
Press Association News via AOL· 1 month agoThe shortlist for one of Britain’s oldest book awards has been announced. The James Tait Black...
How an Acclaimed Writer Found the “Consuming Furnace at the Center of My Life”
Slate via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIn 2021 the writer then known as Luc Sante—author of the classic 1991 urban history Low Life: Lures...
Percival Everett, Ling Ma among nominees for critics prizes
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFiction by Percival Everett and Ling Ma, nonfiction by Annie Proulx and biographies of George...
Here are the finalists for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Awards
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year ago"Bad Mexicans," by UCLA's Kelly Lytle Hernández, and L.A.-based Tess Gunty's debut novel, "The...
Stars convening for huge festival to celebrate one of NJ's best-known writers
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 1 year agoVery few writers own a town. Raymond Chandler's L.A., August Wilson's Pittsburgh, Dickens' London — each is a self-contained universe, with its own set of characters and mythology, known to ...