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In Their Own Words: Nicholas Buccola

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

Paul Laurence Dunbar: Beyond the Mask

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

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In Their Own Words: Layla Saad

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

In Their Own Words: Isabel Ibañez

It wasn’t until much later that I recognized why, and when I did, I embraced [...]

In Their Own Words: Saeed Jones

Saeed Jones is an award-winning poet whose new memoir How We Fight for Our Lives is [...]

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Let Them Inform Each Other

Keah Brown on Activism and the Writing Process By Keah Brown Writing is my first [...]

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In Their Own Words: Deborah Blum

Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who currently serves as director of the Knight [...]

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In Their Own Words: Karl Marlantes

Karl Marlantes is the author of the Vietnam War novel Matterhorn, which has been hailed [...]

J. Michael Straczynski: How to Have a Career in Writing

For four decades, J. Michael Straczynski has been telling stories in a variety of formats [...]

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In Their Own Words: R.O. Kwon

R.O. Kwon’s debut novel The Incendiaries was named one of the best books of the [...]