The Word
By Marita Golden
By Marita Golden
By Marita Golden
By Marita Golden
Category: Essays & Literary Collections | Reference
Category: Essays & Literary Collections | Reference
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$19.00
Jan 11, 2011 | ISBN 9780767929912
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Jan 11, 2011 | ISBN 9780307720771
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Praise
Critically acclaimed Black writers reveal how books have shaped their personal lives—in often unexpected ways.
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 borders of their communities and broadening their sense of self.
Edwidge Danticat movingly recounts the first time she encountered a Black character in a book and how this changed her worldview forever; Edward P. Jones speaks openly about being raised by an illiterate mother; J. California Cooper discusses the spiritual sources of her literary inspiration; Nathan McCall explains how reading saved his life while in prison; Pearl Cleage muses eloquently about how other people’s stories help one make one’s own way in the world; and world-renowned historian John Hope Franklin—in one of the last interviews he gave before his death—touchingly recalls his
childhood in the segregated South and how reading opened his mind to life’s greater possibilities.
The stories that emerge from these in-depth interviews not only provide an important record of the creative life of leading Black writers but also explore the vast cultural and spiritual benefits of reading and writing, and they support the growing initiative to encourage people to read as both a passion and a pastime.
Includes interviews with:
Chimamanda N. Adichie
Faith Adiele
Pearl Cleage
J. California Cooper
Ellis Cose
Edwidge Danticat
John Hope Franklin
Nikki Giovanni
Wil Haygood
Mat Johnson
Edward P. Jones
David Levering Lewis
Nathan McCall
Table Of Contents
Contents
Introduction 1
Part I READING BEYOND BORDERS
Ellis Cose 13
Faith Adiele 33
Edward P. Jones 47
Edwidge Danticat 61
Part II READING FOR THE MIND
Pearl Cleage 79
David Levering Lewis 95
Nathan McCall 111
Mat Johnson 127
John Hope Franklin 137
Part III READING FOR THE SOUL
J. California Cooper 157
Chimamanda N. Adichie 169
Wil Haygood 183
Nikki Giovanni 201
Acknowledgments 211
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