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Jesmyn Ward answers your questions about ‘Sing, Unburied, Sing’
Award-winning writer Jesmyn Ward joins Jeffrey Brown to answer readers’ questions about her novel “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” the first selection in the Now Read This book club, plus we announce what we’ll be reading for next month.
Inside Mississippi’s notorious Parchman prison
Mississippi State Prison in Parchman, Mississippi, has a long history as a penitentiary. And it features as a haunted setting in Jesmyn Ward’s National Award-winning 2017 novel “Sing, Unburied, Sing.”…
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Introducing the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, ‘Now Read This’
The PBS NewsHour has teamed up with The New York Times to bring you a new book club called Now Read This. It will allow readers to participate in discussions in real time and ask questions of the authors. The…
‘Persist. Read, write, and improve.’ Jesmyn Ward shares the best writing advice she’s ever received
The author shares her writing advice, daily writing routine and more.
Use these questions to help guide your discussions as you read the book over the next month.
Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith reviews "Sing, Unburied, Sing."…
Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward writes the stories of the people and places she found absent in literature while growing up. Her new fiction novel, “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” weaves the supernatural with genuine characters that are molded by the rural and…
After writer and Tulane University professor Jesmyn Ward survived Hurricane Katrina while staying at her grandmother’s house, she wrote “Salvage the Bones,” an award-winning novel about a Mississippi family in the days leading up to the devastating storm. She joins…
Writer Jesmyn Ward discusses the role and strength of women in her community, and the time it took to write and understand the loss of her loved ones for her memoir "Men We Reaped."…
