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On February 18, 1965 James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, Jr. engaged in an iconic [...]

10
Feb

"It's a rainy cold day in Chicago. What better than to sit indoors and bang [...]

07
Feb

I didn’t start reading Korean American writers until after college, and the first ones I [...]

06
Feb

Reading Recommendations from the staff of the American Writers Museum. This past month in Chicago [...]

05
Feb

Ahead of our February 6, 2020 screening and discussion of the feature-length documentary Paul Laurence [...]

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31
Jan

This week, we feature four more immigrant stories written by visitors to the newest temporary [...]

31
Jan

Each week, the My America blog series introduces you to one of the writers featured in our [...]

29
Jan

In the summer of 2018, globally-respected writer, speaker and podcast host Layla Saad ran a [...]

28
Jan

"To aid our country is to engage in civil discourse, to hear our differences and [...]

24
Jan

"After 9/11 people wanted to understand, like, what are Arabs? Or they didn’t want to [...]

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23
Jan