What to Read When You’re a Whiting Award Winner
The 2018 Whiting Awards winners share books that have inspired them, plus a giveaway!
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Posts Tagged: The Border of Paradise
What to Read When They Yell “Go Home!”
A list from Rowan Hisayo Buchanan to celebrate the release of the forthcoming anthology Go Home!.
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The Rumpus Interview with Esmé Weijun Wang
Esmé Weijun Wang discusses her first novel, The Border of Paradise, about a multi-generational new American family, creative expression through writing and photography, and interracial relationships.
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We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from Esmé Weijun Wang! Esmé writes to us about her big dreams and how although chronic illness is the great thief, all difficulties will have a resolution and she will continue to pursue her dreams. You don’t want to miss this lovely handwritten letter—subscribe to Letters […]
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #20: Greats
Great strides, great artists, great desires, great complexity—this week’s books are all about these kinds of greats. They also all showcase exceptional writing and take us far and wide—from elective politics to abstract art, from Coney Island to California—to explore great ideas. How does the world change politically? How is a woman artist’s life entwined […]
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