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• The Word

  Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing : Interviews

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  "In these thirteen strikingly candid interviews, bestselling authors, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, and writers picked by Oprah’s Book Club discuss how the acts of reading and writing have deeply affected their lives by expanding the conceptual…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Women Writers at Work

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  "Through candid interviews with Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alexis De Veaux, Nikki Giovanni, Kristin Hunter, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Margret Walker, and Sherley Anne…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Women Writers of Louisiana

  Telling Their Stories

  Dobie, Ann B.

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  "Louisiana has been home, by birth or adoption, to numerous literary greats. But among that talent, there's an under-celebrated cohort: Black women. Due to lack of education and opportunity, their record is fairly brief, but over the past century…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How We Do It

  Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill

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  "How We Do It is an anthology curated by Black writers for the creation and proliferation of Black thought. While a creator’s ethnicity does not solely define them, it is inherently part of who they are and how they interpret the world. For…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sisterhood

  How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture

  Thorsson, Courtney, 1978-

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  "One Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan’s Brooklyn apartment to eat gumbo, drink champagne, and talk about their work. Calling themselves “The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moving Against the System

  The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness

  Austin, David

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  "In 1968, as protests shook France and war raged in Vietnam, the giants of black radical politics descended on Montreal to discuss the unique challenges and struggles facing their black comrades all over the world. Against a backdrop of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Children of the Night

  the Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present

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  "In 1969, Langston Hughes edited The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, the classic compendium of African-American short fiction from 1899 to 1967. A quarter of a century later, Gloria Naylor compiled an encore volume, Children of the Night,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like

  the Voice and Vision of Black Women Writers

  Carroll, Rebecca

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  "The first edition of I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like, published in 1994, remains an essential text for readers of Black feminist literature in all genres. Featuring interviews with and excerpts by writers like Rita Dove, Pearl Cleage, Barbara…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Sell Out

  the (hidden) Cost of Being a Black Writer

  Sanders, Chad,

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  "In the summer of 2020, when the nation was erupting in protest over the murder of George Floyd, Chad Sanders was quietly celebrating for selfish reasons. Why? After years of struggling to get his footing as a writer, he’d finally landed a New York…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On Becoming An American Writer

  Essays & Nonfiction

  McPherson, James Alan, 1943-2016,

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  "Born in segregated 1940s Georgia, McPherson graduated from Harvard Law School only to give up law and become a writer. In 1978, he became the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. But all the while, McPherson was also writing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• It's All Love

  Black Writers on Soul Mates, Family, and Friends

  Golden, Marita

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  "n It's All Love, black writers celebrate the complexity, power, danger, and glory of love in all its many forms: romantic, familial, communal, and sacred. Editor Marita Golden recounts the morning she woke certain that she would meet her soul mate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Ink

  Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing

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  "Spanning over 250 years of history, Black Ink traces black literature in America from Frederick Douglass to Ta-Nehisi Coates in this masterful collection of twenty-five illustrious and moving essays on the power of the written word. Throughout…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Racial Imaginary

  Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind

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  "In 2011, a poem published in a national magazine by a popular white male poet made use of a black female body. A conversation ensued, and ended. Claudia Rankine subsequently created Open Letter, a web forum for writers to relate the effects and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Memory of Kin

  Stories About Family by Black Writers

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  "Critic, essayist, and anthologist Mary Helen Washington has chosen as the theme of her newest collection "the family as a living mystery." She selected nineteen stories and twelve poems by some of this century's leading black authors that oblige…Read moreRead more of this annotation