How Terese Marie Mailhot stopped writing what other people wanted
"I found myself writing the book professors wanted me to write," said author Mailhot, before she decided to strip her…
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Black Comic Book Festival draws thousands in Harlem
New York's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture celebrated the tradition of black comics this weekend with its annual Black Comic Book Festival. Thousands attended the two-day exhibition in Harlem, which also featured screenings, panel discussions and a cosplay…
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‘Prozac Nation’ author Elizabeth Wurtzel dies at age 52
Wurtzel, whose blunt and painful confessions of her struggles with addiction and depression in the best-selling "Prozac Nation" made her…
Discussion questions for ‘Heart Berries’
Terese Marie Mailhot's "Heart Berries," a memoir that addresses the trauma experienced by indigenous people across generations, is our January…
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‘Trust Exercise’ author Susan Choi on power dynamics and timely fiction
Susan Choi's novel "Trust Exercise" takes place in a high school for the performing arts in an unnamed southern city.…
‘Heart Berries’ is our January book club pick
Terese Marie Mailhot's memoir traces her family's history on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in British Columbia, Canada. Her collected…
How artists have depicted Circe’s power through time
Here's a small sampling of the goddess' rich visual history, from ancient Greece to contemporary America.
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‘Circe’ author Madeline Miller answers your questions
Madeline Miller, author of our December pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown…
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Author Sarah Broom on ‘The Yellow House’ and putting New Orleans East on the map
Sarah Broom's 2019 memoir, "The Yellow House," won the National Book Award for non-fiction. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Broom…
In ‘Circe,’ this witch is more artist than immortal
Author Madeline Miller reimagined a reviled minor goddess from the "Odyssey" into a powerful figure who finds herself through hard…
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