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Maxine Hong Kingston, bell hooks among those honored by Ishmael Reed's Before Columbus Foundation
Read full article: Maxine Hong Kingston, bell hooks among those honored by Ishmael Reed's Before Columbus FoundationMaxine Hong Kingston, Darryl Pinckney and the late bell hooks were among the authors honored this year by the Before Columbus Foundation, a nonprofit co-founded by Ishmael Reed that celebrates multicultural literature.
Akhtar, Ehrenreich among winners of American Book Awards
Read full article: Akhtar, Ehrenreich among winners of American Book AwardsAyad Akhtar's acclaimed novel โHomeland Elegies,โ Ben Ehrenreichโs environmental warning โDesert Notebooksโ and an illustrated edition of the late William Melvin Kelleyโs postmodern narrative โDunfords Travels Everywheresโ are among this yearโs winners of American Book Awards for works that highlight the countryโs diversity.
Atwood, Grisham among contributors to pandemic novel
Read full article: Atwood, Grisham among contributors to pandemic novelAtwood and Grisham are among several authors participating in a novel about the pandemic. The Authors Guild Foundation announced Thursday that it had reached a deal with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media to publish Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering." (AP Photo)NEW YORK โ One of the first novels about the pandemic will be a collaborative effort, with Margaret Atwood, John Grisham and Celeste Ng among the writers. Novelist and Authors Guild President Douglas Preston came up with the idea as a way to raise money for the foundation. Atwood is editing โFourteen Daysโ and helped recruit a wide range of contributors, including Dave Eggers, Ishmael Reed, Monique Truong, Hampton Sides, Mary Pope Osborne and Emma Donoghue.