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Long out of print, Black Women Writers at Work is a vital contribution to Black literature in the twentieth century.
Through candid interviews with Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alexis De Veaux, Nikki Giovanni, Kristin Hunter, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Margret Walker, and Sherley Anne Williams, the book highlights the practices and critical linkages between the work and lived experiences of Black women writers whose work laid the foundation for many who have come after.
Responding to questions about why and for whom they write, and how they perceive their responsibility to their work, to others, and to society, the featured playwrights, poets, novelists, and essayists provide a window into the connections between their lives and their art.
Finally available for a new generation, this classic work has an urgent message for audiences and writers today.
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This first audio edition of Poetry in Person: 25 Years of Conversation with America’s Poets (Knopf, 2010), invites listeners into an intimate classroom with eight acclaimed poets. Full of compelling, in-depth conversation about manuscripts and drafts by the poets themselves, plus readings of the finished poems, these historic recordings offer one of the most detailed portraits ever produced of how poems are actually made.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De d en 08-28-16
De: Lucille Clifton, y otros
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Sontag
- Her Life and Work
- De: Benjamin Moser
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 22 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 114
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No writer is as emblematic of the American 20th century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Cloying voice
- De Suzanne en 11-02-19
De: Benjamin Moser
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Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness
- What It Means to Be Black Now
- De: Touré, Michael Eric Dyson
- Narrado por: Touré
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 101
A provocative look at what it means to be Black today. This audiobook includes excerpts from over 100 interviews with Rev. Jesse Jackson, Cornel West, Skip Gates, Melissa Harris-Perry, Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, Glenn Ligon, Malcolm Gladwell, Paul Mooney, NY Gov. David Paterson, Harold Ford, Jr., Soledad O'Brien, Kamala Harris, Chuck D, Questlove, and others.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Food for Thought
- De Sara en 12-22-11
De: Touré, y otros
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Looking for Lorraine
- The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
- De: Imani Perry
- Narrado por: LisaGay Hamilton
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 142
Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short life was full of extraordinary experiences and achievements, and she had an unflinching commitment to social justice, which brought her under FBI surveillance when she was barely in her twenties. While her close friends and contemporaries, like James Baldwin and Nina Simone, have been rightly celebrated, her story has been diminished and relegated to one work—until now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Radiant
- De Rose Brookins en 03-20-19
De: Imani Perry
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How We Get Free
- Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
- De: Keeanga -Yamahtta Taylor
- Narrado por: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Duración: 6 h y 39 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 191
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 166
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 165
The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. In this collection of essays and interviews edited by activist-scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, founding members of the organization and contemporary activists reflect on the legacy of its contributions to black feminism and its impact on today's struggles.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Crucial history
- De Laura T en 10-04-18
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Manifesto
- On Never Giving Up
- De: Bernardine Evaristo
- Narrado por: Bernardine Evaristo
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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From the best-selling and Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Glorious performance and inspiring story
- De Maggi Morehouse en 01-25-22
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The Republic of Imagination
- America in Three Books
- De: Azar Nafisi
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 56
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Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite novels, she describes the unexpected journey that led her to become an American citizen after first dreaming of America as a young girl in Tehran and coming to know the country through its fiction. She urges us to rediscover the America of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and challenges us to be truer to the words and spirit of the Founding Fathers, who understood that their democratic experiment would never thrive or survive unless they could foster a democratic imagination.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love
- De Rebecca en 05-29-16
De: Azar Nafisi
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Bet on Black
- The Good News About Being Black in America Today
- De: Eboni K. Williams
- Narrado por: Eboni K. Williams
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 108
When The Real Housewives of New York City hired its first black cast member after more than 13 years on the air, attorney, speaker, and journalist Eboni K. Williams knew that the public would consider her a diversity hire. But instead of accepting the label, Williams re-envisioned her role as a “Diversity Higher,” an opportunity to prove the significance of Black excellence in the workspace and in society at-large. In this book, she shares all the benefits and advantages that have helped her and many others historically reach great heights in their careers and beyond.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful and Inspiring
- De Pamela en 11-24-24
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On Freedom
- Four Songs of Care and Constraint
- De: Maggie Nelson
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 55
So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept's complexities in four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just great
- De Kristi Strong en 12-14-21
De: Maggie Nelson
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Letters to a Young Artist
- De: Anna Deavere Smith
- Narrado por: Anna Deavere Smith
- Duración: 4 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
From "the most exciting individual in American theater" ( Newsweek), here is Anna Deavere Smith's brass-tacks advice to aspiring artists of all stripes. In the manner of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Deavere Smith mentors her young artist over a period of five years, sharing her hard-won wisdom about the challenges and rewards of the artistic life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great advice for artists of any age.
- De S. Barker en 10-30-17
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Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody
- The Making of a Black Theologian
- De: James H. Cone
- Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 137
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 120
In this powerful and passionate memoir - his final work - Cone describes the obstacles he overcame to find his voice, to respond to the signs of the times, and to offer a voice for those - like the parents who raised him in Bearden, Arkansas, in the era of lynching and Jim Crow - who had no voice. Recounting lessons learned both from critics and students, and the ongoing challenge of his models King, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin, he describes his efforts to use theology as a tool in the struggle against oppression and for a better world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You need to understand Cone to get his Theology
- De Adam Shields en 02-11-20
De: James H. Cone
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To Show and to Tell
- The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
- De: Phillip Lopate
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 62
Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology The Art of the Personal Essay, is universally acclaimed as “one of our best personal essayists” ( Dallas Morning News). Here, combining more than 40 years of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, he brings us this highly anticipated nuts-and-bolts guide to writing literary nonfiction. A phenomenal master class shaped by Lopate’s informative, accessible tone, and immense gift for storytelling.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not a guide on writing personal essays
- De A. Yoshida en 08-07-13
De: Phillip Lopate
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The Second Mountain
- How People Move from the Prison of Self to the Joy of Commitment
- De: David Brooks
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 12 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,800
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,527
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,520
Author David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments. Brooks looks at a range of people who have lived joyous, committed lives, and who have embraced the necessity and beauty of dependence. He gathers their wisdom on how to choose a partner, how to pick a vocation, how to live out a philosophy, and how we can begin to integrate our commitments into one overriding purpose.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pursue meaning, reject hyper-individualism
- De Adam Shields en 05-07-19
De: David Brooks
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The Black Friend
- On Being a Better White Person
- De: Frederick Joseph
- Narrado por: Miebaka Yohannes
- Duración: 5 h y 9 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 465
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 415
Writing from the perspective of a friend, Frederick Joseph offers candid reflections on his own experiences with racism and conversations with prominent artists and activists about theirs - creating an essential listen for white people who are committed anti-racists and those newly come to the cause of racial justice.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not really a friend and not friendly
- De emax en 06-01-21
De: Frederick Joseph
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At the Existentialist Café
- Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
- De: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 944
Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a phenomenologist, you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!"
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4 out of 5 stars
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Consistent look at incoherent philosophy
- De Gary en 06-19-16
De: Sarah Bakewell
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Cunt (20th Anniversary Edition)
- De: Inga Muscio
- Narrado por: Inga Muscio
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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In this fully revised anniversary edition of the classic testament to women's empowerment, Muscio explores with candidness and humor such traditional feminist issues as birth control, sexuality, jealousy between women, and prostitution with a fresh attitude for a new generation of women. Sending out a call for every woman to be the "Cuntlovin' Ruler of Her Sexual Universe", Muscio stands convention on its head by embracing the provocative and celebrating womanhood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book ever
- De Paula Daniels en 07-28-19
De: Inga Muscio
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The New Negro
- The Life of Alain Locke
- De: Jeffrey C. Stewart
- Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Duración: 45 h y 34 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally. He narrates the education of Locke, including his becoming the first African American Rhodes Scholar, earning a PhD in philosophy at Harvard University, and his long career as a professor at Howard University. And yet he became most closely associated with the flowering of Black culture in Jazz Age America.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Let me guess? Locke was a gay black man?
- De Porter en 01-21-20
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Native Son
- De: Richard Wright
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James
- Duración: 17 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,173
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,861
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,864
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simply a classic
- De Noah Smith en 11-11-10
De: Richard Wright
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Black Women Writers at Work
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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- Natalie P.
- 02-20-23
It is incredible!
It is incredible to connect with some of the greats. These interviews are treasures. So grateful this book was republished.
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- Sandee
- 06-09-23
Great Narration, Great motivation for writing
I will read this over and over, purchased th kindle version
but fist I borrowed from the library, I will purchase my own hard copy
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