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‘It’s not just shameful. It is humiliating’: four celebrated authors on their hopes and fears before the 2024 US election

Nov 3, 2024 | theguardian.com | Colum McCann |Margo Jefferson |Richard Ford |Marilynne Robinson

Colum McCannIrish-born novelist and nonfiction author whose books include Let the Great World Spin and Apeirogon. McCann has lived in New York for three decadesAlmost 40 years ago, I was as a young journalist travelling across the deep south of the United States. I found myself sitting outside a diner in Waycross, Georgia, jawing with some good ol’ boys. One of them was a perfect American cartoon. Baseball hat. Plaid shirt.
Autobiografia caratteriale

Nov 23, 2023 | corriere.it | Margo Jefferson

![endif]--> <![endif]--> desktop includes2013/SSI/notification/global.json /includes2013/SSI/utility/ajax_ssi_loader.shtml VENERDÌ 24 NOVEMBRE 2023 Autobiografia caratteriale MARGO JEFFERSON Pubblichiamo in anteprima l’incipit del libro di Margo Jefferson «Sistema nervoso in costruzione» (traduzione di Sara Antonelli, 66thand2nd, pagine 336, euro 18), in libreria dal 28 novembre. In queste pagine l’autrice, premio Pulitzer per la critica nel 1995, riflette sulla possibilità di scrivere...
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Nov 9, 2023 | service95.com | Allyson Hobbs |Nella Larsen |Margo Jefferson |Jess Row

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Table of Contents - September 21, 2023

Aug 17, 2023 | nybooks.com | Zadie Smith |Michael Kazin |Lily Geismer |Margo Jefferson

Playing with the Past The Fraud, Zadie Smith’s first historical novel, asks if we might all be frauds of some sort, wearing masks and performing as people who are not quite ourselves.
Who Says ‘Wild Women Don’t Sing the Blues?’ (April 1979)

Apr 19, 2023 | msmagazine.com | Margo Jefferson

To pay tribute to five decades of reporting, rebelling and truth-telling, From the Vault includes some of our favorite feminist classics from the last 50 years of Ms. For more iconic, ground-breaking stories like this, pre-order 50 YEARS OF Ms.: THE BEST OF THE PATHFINDING MAGAZINE THAT IGNITED A REVOLUTION (Alfred A. Knopf)—a stunning collection of the most audacious, norm-breaking coverage Ms. has published.
April Is for Authors at UC Davis

Apr 2, 2023 | ucdavis.edu | Margo Jefferson |Victor Cruz |Puerto Rico-born |Morocco-based poet |Dave Jones

Salvador Plascencia, author of The People of Paper (2006), is the next guest in the Creative Writing Series, 4:30 p.m. Wednesday (April 5), in person 205 Shields Library. Named a best book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times and Financial Times, The People of Paper has been translated into a dozen languages and widely anthologized and adopted in Chicanista, postmodern and design courses throughout the country.
Racing to Perfection

Feb 1, 2023 | aol.com | Margo Jefferson

As the 1960s arrived, my older sister, Denise, and I were always looking for ways to insert ourselves into tales of glory and glamour, especially when they starred Negroes. Denise did Imperious better. I did Luminous better. Denise had longer, better-defined legs; I had a smaller waist and fuller breasts. Denise was statuesque. I was diminutive. We brought our uncertainties along, likewise our vanities. We told these tales through our needs.