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I'm reading "The Fire This Time", the last book for the month of March.

#JesmynWard #Blacksky #booksky #libros

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New Nonfiction by Black Authors to Read in 2026 From a memoir by Jesmyn Ward and Kimberlé Crenshaw to a new release by Ibram X. Kendi, these are the best new Black nonfiction books to read in 2026.

“From a memoir by Jesmyn Ward and Kimberlé Crenshaw to a new release by Ibram X. Kendi, these are the best new Black nonfiction books to read in 2026.”

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#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #BHM2026 #IbramKendi #KimberleCrenshaw #JesmynWard

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New Nonfiction by Black Authors to Read in 2026 From a memoir by Jesmyn Ward and Kimberlé Crenshaw to a new release by Ibram X. Kendi, these are the best new Black nonfiction books to read in 2026.

New #Nonfiction by #Black #Authors to #Read in 2026

From a #memoir by #JesmynWard and #KimberléCrenshaw to a new release by #IbramXKendi, these are the best new Black nonfiction #books to read in 2026.

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“I think of my writing as an act of love, an act of hope, an act of resistance.”
— Jesmyn Ward, PBS NEWSHOUR

CONVERSATIONS WITH JESMYN WARD explores the life, language, and legacy of one of Mississippi’s defining literary voices.

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#JesmynWard #UPMississippi

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Today in Bookish and Literary History, October 3 Today in Bookish and Literary History, October 3

🔗 Check my blog for more details on the titles, authors, synopses, and the list of awards:

#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #October3 #DonDeLillo #JeanetteWinterson #ZadieSmith #JesmynWard #CharlotteWood #ShannonSanders #IonaLee #KateSummerscale #booksky

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Today in Bookish and Literary History, October 3

#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #October3 #DonDeLillo #JeanetteWinterson #ZadieSmith #JesmynWard #CharlotteWood #ShannonSanders #IonaLee #KateSummerscale #booksky

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Next up! #JesmynWard #SalvageTheBones #Katrina

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20 authors you’d recommend to a friend. One author per day, no particular order.

#booksky #books #bookchallenge #readingchallenge
#jesmynward www.simonandschuster.com/p/jesmyn-ward

14/20: Jesmyn Ward

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Our most valuable truths come from within.

In our hope we bring them forward.

In community we see them grow.

#quotes #quoteoftheday #hope #theshecenter #books #bookstagram #jesmynward #women #author #womenwriters

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This week I attended an interview with Jesmyn Ward at the 30th annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma, San Diego. Talk about inspiring! #jesmynward #authorsguild #dramatistsguild #decolonialpassage #writinglife #booksigning

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Just finished #jesmynward’s “Let Us Descend”! What a novel! #LetUsDescend #Jesmynward

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Jesmyn Ward: "En EEUU hay un esfuerzo deliberado y siniestro por borrar las voces de quienes viven en los márgenes" Como suele ocurrir con las grandes historias, la última novela de Jesmyn Ward (DeLisle, Mississippi, 1977) llegó de forma improvisada. Hace ya unos nueve años, la escritora...

#BookSky #Literatura #EEUU #JesmynWard www.elmundo.es/la-lectura/2...

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Supporting #black #authors & flooding #google with searches for only black artists after it changed its calendar

#AlexanderDumas
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#ToniMorrison
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Day 6

Jasmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward’s Sing is a powerful, ghostly tale of family, history, and race in the Deep South. A two-time National Book Award winner, Ward’s storytelling is unforgettable. #BlackHistoryMonth #JesmynWard #BlackAuthors

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Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward absolutely blew me away earlier this year. Lush, lyrical, soul-stirring, brutal, important.
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#letusdescend #jesmynward
books book #booksky
#diversebooks #histfic
#bookishrecs
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Let Us Descend review #LetUsDescend #JesmynWard #books #reading #booksky (Read Oct 2024)

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Jesmyn Ward, First Black to Win the National Book Award Twice On November 15 th 2017, author Jesmyn Ward became the first Black American to win the National Book Award twice.

See our latest blog on Jesmyn Ward, two time winner of the National Book Award. Ward’s work captures the essence of human existence. historianspeaks.org/f/jesmyn-war... #JesmynWard #NationalBookAward

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 2

#Books
#BookSky
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#BookChallenge
#SingUnburiedSing
#JesmynWard

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Salvaging Humanity Through Storytelling: Jesmyn Ward at ALOUD – Library Foundation of Los Angeles

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#SouthernLiterature #JesmynWard #LFLA #Aloud #CharlesMBlow #LetUsDescend #Dante

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Poster of the event, providing the event info and featuring a photo of three young Black men standing together laughing

Poster of the event, providing the event info and featuring a photo of three young Black men standing together laughing

Today, I had the great pleasure of having Dr. Alexandra Hartmann (Paderborn U) in my class on " #Masculinity & #Kinship in African American Culture" with a conceptually rich yet accessible talk on #JamesBaldwin, #JesmynWard & notions of (radical) #care. Thanks, Alex! #BlackStudies #AmericanStudies

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#writer #writing #literatur #buch #climatefiction #clifi #writingclimate
#jesmynward #jgballard #meganhunter #johnlanchester
#author #autorin

Wer es wirklich wissen will, hier unsere 3 stunden
LangeNacht beim #deutschlandfunk
Ganz viel klimaliteratur

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#VendrediLecture de la permanence (Anne-Laure) "Le Chant des revenants", par #JesmynWard : « Un roman puissant, hanté, d’une déchirante beauté, un road trip à travers un Sud dévasté, un chant à trois voix pour raconter l’Amérique noire. »

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Upside of insomnia: Watching #JesmynWard enthrall @SethMeyers while you're in Chapter 1 of "Sing, Unburied, Sing" http://bit.ly/2fW7MKh

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#dear twitter: yes #Monielove & #jesmynward & #audrelorde ... yes to the canon of poetry, to the wild wild sky where everything be

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#dear NYC: #jesmynward conversation at the library includes speeches from Faulkner, essays of Baldwin & an analyzation of Outkast #brilliant

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#dear nyc: tonite. I celebrate the woman that made me cry while reading her novel. #jesmynward #nypl word, ny. word

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