On Being Seen by Toni Morrison
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...moreKendra Allen shares a reading list to celebrate her debut essay collection, WHEN YOU LEARN THE ALPHABET.
...moreAuthors whose works have been challenged or banned give recommendations on other “uncomfortable” books that will make you a better person for having read them.
...moreZinzi Clemmons on What We Lose, representations of blackness, and life’s influences on writing.
...moreSylvia Brownrigg discusses Pages For Her and returning to its world of characters, the inner voices she heeds and those she silences, and who she imagines her readers to be.
...moreSamantha Hunt discusses her new collection, The Dark Dark, why she became a writer, and the freeing quiet of darkness.
...moreGeeta Kothari discusses her debut collection, American xenophobia, and the immigrant narrative.
...moreLife’s inequities can be cruel, but in the end we are all part of our communities; suffering though we may be, we are not alone.
...moreLiterature has always functioned as a singular means of finding empathy for others in situations one might otherwise be unable to imagine. At the Huffington Post, Erika Johansen discusses the social reluctance to engage with difficult topics like sexual abuse, and the necessity for discussions and books surrounding these problems. She picks seven works, from […]
...moreToni Morrison was honored at this year’s National Book Critics Circle award ceremony, and Rita Dove’s remarks capture Morrison’s ongoing legacy beautifully. Dove describes her own joy in discovering The Bluest Eye, the first book in the University of Iowa’s library that spoke to a black American experience outside of the deep south or inner […]
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