I love to read books and, if you’re here, you probably do as well…or you’d like to get more into the habit of reading. It doesn’t matter if you prefer paperback books, hardcover books, audio books, or e-books; books are essential, because nothing compares to the deep learning and insights you can garner when you […]
“We were eight years in power,” said South Carolina congressman Thomas Miller in 1895, as white politicians, falsely accusing Reconstruction’s Black leadership of corruption and incompetency, passed new laws that fully restored white supremacy. “We had built schoolhouses, established charitable institutions, built and maintained the penitentiary system, provided for the education of the deaf and […]
“We might think of whiteness as all the aspects of being white,” Robin DiAngelo writes, “aspects that go beyond mere physical differences and are related to the meaning and resultant material advantage of being defined as white in society: what is granted and how it is granted based on that meaning. Instead of the typical […]
Writers are influenced and shaped by the literature of other writers. And while the books of one’s youth and young adulthood are most prominent in this formation process, writers continue to grow and evolve across a lifetime as they discover additional literature. These are the authors who have especially shaped me and continue to do […]
My favorite female writers span several genres, and each woman has distinguished herself as a master of her craft. If the ones who are still living got together to form their own literature faculty, the school would be without rival: Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance, True Refuge, and Radical Compassion Toni Morrison, author of Beloved […]
2018 gave us a record number of women getting elected to higher offices. It also gave us some incredible books that will help generations of women for years to come, as women and their male allies continue to fight back against a persistent patriarchal culture. Here’s five of the best: Good and Mad: The Revolutionary […]
Stephen King, author of The Stand, 11/22/63, and The Dead Zone Ernest Hemingway, author of The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, and A Farewell to Arms JD Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather David […]
Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns Maya Angelou, author of All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and A Song Flung Up to Heaven Cristina Henríquez, author of The Book of Unknown Americans Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me and We Were Eight Years in […]
These eleven non-fiction writers and their books are worth checking out and adding to your library! Isabel Wilkerson. Wilkerson’s masterful The Warmth of Other Suns depicts the lives of a handful of African-Americans who were among the millions that migrated from the Jim Crow South to the Northeast, Midwest, and California in search of a better […]
This fall, as the leaves change colors and eventually drop to the earth, I encourage you to spend some leisure time with three titles I’ve enjoyed reading in recent months. Reading the Silver Screen In his new book, Thomas Foster, author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor, help readers, screenwriters, and movie lovers […]