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I am thankful to Maxine Beneba Clarke for writing The Hate Race, a memoir of growing up as a black Afro-Caribbean woman in Australia in the 1980s.
Kemi Nekvapil • POWER: A woman's guide to living and leading without apology
Bonnie Powers
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Ars Poetica #100: I Believe
poetryfoundation.org
The summer that author Toni Morrison died, I went on a binge-read of her majestic novels and essays. For years, she had been a beacon for me: a truth teller, a way finder, a culture changer. A woman who bore witness to her own experience and courageously told her story.
Elizabeth Lesser • Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
John Keats’s poem “This Living Hand”:
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
Je me suis prise d’une grande sympathie pour lui, sans parler du fait que je le tenais pour un de nos plus grands poètes. Mon exemplaire écorné de The Happy Birthday of Death campait sur ma table de nuit. De tous les poètes beat, Gregory était le plus jeune. Il possédait une beauté ravagée et une arrogance à la John Garfield. Il ne se prenait pas t
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