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Loving “Let Us Descend”? Check out Jesmyn Ward’s Other Books
The Oprah Magazine via Yahoo News· 6 months agoCheck Out All Jesmyn Ward’s BooksHearst Owned Jesmyn Ward is a collector of superlatives. She is the...
For Teachers, A New Year — And New Book Bans — Means More Work
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 8 months agoWhen Holly Weaver began teaching in 2014, she started because she loved literature, and wanted to...
School board rejects book challenge
The High Point Enterprise, N.C. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNov. 30—GUILFORD COUNTY — A majority of the Guilford County Board of Education declined Tuesday to ban a novel from a college-level literature course for high school seniors that contains explicit ...
Author Jesmyn Ward wins Library of Congress fiction prize
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction has gone to Jesmyn Ward, who at 45, is the...
Jesmyn Ward on Safiya Sinclair, 'Beloved,' and the Book That Has the Greatest Ending
Elle via Yahoo News· 5 months agoShelf Life: Jesmyn WardPORTRAIT BY Beowulf Sheehan / ILLUSTRATION BY YOUSRA ATTIA Welcome to Shelf...
'Let Us Descend,' set on a Carolina rice plantation, is a Faulknerian novel of slavery
Star News via Yahoo News· 5 months agoJesmyn Ward, a two-time National Book Award winner, turns to the antebellum South in her new novel...
A reader's guide for "Let Us Descend," Oprah's book club pick
CBS News via Yahoo News· 6 months agoOprah Winfrey has selected "Let Us Descend" by author and MacArthur Fellow Jesmyn Ward as her newest...
The Five Novels You Need to Read This Fall
The Oprah Magazine via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe Five Novels You Need to Read This FallHearst Owned Fall is always the season when the year’s literary heavy hitters come out to play, and 2023 is no...
‘Katrina Babies’ Review: HBO Doc Is a Devastating Study of Ongoing Trauma
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen the water rushed into New Orleans, breaching the levees, residents say it sounded like an...
Opinion: One surprising source of hope for climate change? Fiction
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA wildfire in Napa County, Calif., in September 2020. (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times) As the...
