Johns Hopkins historian Martha S. Jones has been named to The Los Angeles Times' 41st annual Book Prizes list. Her book Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All (Basic Books, 2020) was recognized in the
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One benefit to being a short story writer is that you’re always traveling somewhere new.
It can be a place identifiable on a map like a road in Lagos, Nigeria. “You walk into certain places,” said novelist Ben Okri, ”.and a history you don’t even know about breathes up through your feet, and effects emotions in you that you didn’t even know it was possible to feel. Place can do that.” Okri has written deeply about Nigeria in magical realist novels like “The Famished Road,” which won the 1991 Booker Prize. But his new story collection, “Prayer for the Living,” spans the globe.
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Kelly Lytle Hernández and Marcus Hunter are among the participants at the 26th annual event
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Kelly Lytle Hernández, professor of history, African American studies and urban planning, will participate in the California MacArthur Fellows panel. Marcus Hunter, professor of sociology, moderated the Black Experience Across Genre panel. Maxwell Gordy |
April 21, 2021
The 26th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, which began on April 17 and will conclude on April 23, features more than 30 panels, readings and conversations. UCLA’s Kelly Lytle Hernández and Marcus Hunter are among the list of notable authors, entertainers and academics participating at this year’s virtual event.
Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Ceremony” was written through a bout of homesickness.
That fact was particularly important to author Danielle Geller, who recently reread the novel after moving to the Pacific Northwest. In her introduction to the book, Silko wrote from Alaska about how much she missed the desert. Living through the gray winters of Victoria, Canada, and after earning her writing MFA in Arizona, Geller could relate.
Geller joined authors Brandon Hobson and David Heska Wanbli Weiden in a Los Angeles Times Festival of Books discussion in honor of Silko, moderated by poet and Times contributor Rigoberto González. The trio paid homage to Silko, who was awarded the 2020 Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement in writing about the American West.