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As I Lay Dying"> “A Conflicted, Imperfect Love.” Jesmyn Ward on William Faulkner’s <em

As I Lay Dying">“A Conflicted, Imperfect Love.” Jesmyn Ward on William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying

More than Cosplaying the Past: Andrea Barrett on Learning to Write Fresh Historical Fiction

Must the Professor Crusade? W. Ralph Eubanks on the Connection Between Black Writing and Black Resistance

Zadie Smith! Jesmyn Ward! Ben Lerner! Naomi Klein! 26 books out in paperback this September.

The Paradox of the Contemporary Southern Writer

Jesmyn Ward! K-Ming Chang! Tim O'Brien! Here are 25 new books out today.

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Southern Storytellers.">Watch Jericho Brown in the upcoming PBS documentary series Southern Storytellers.

Let Us Descend."> See the cover for Jesmyn Ward's new novel, <em

Let Us Descend.">See the cover for Jesmyn Ward's new novel, Let Us Descend.

Attention: a new Jesmyn Ward novel is coming this fall.

How to Survive in Broken Worlds: Jesmyn Ward on Octavia Butler’s Empathy and Optimism

Jesmyn Ward has won the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.

for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf">Jesymn Ward on Discovering for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Kiese Laymon on Revision as Love, and Love as Revision

6 Classic Books That Depict Black Girlhood">The Meaningful Mundane:
6 Classic Books That Depict Black Girlhood

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