Zora Neale Hurston

A Tour of D.C. Writers' Homes, From Frederick Douglass to Sinclair Lewis

Kim Roberts | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Katherin Anne Porter, Sinclair Lewis, Zora Neale Hurston, Dc Authors, Francis Scott Key, Dc Around Town, Dc Writers' Homes, Frederick Douglass, Authors' Homes, Dc Writers, Paul Laurence Dunbar, DC News
Kim Roberts

I have always been interested in how literature and place intersect, especially in my adopted city of Washington, D.C.

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YA Authors Share Their Fave Books As Teens

| Lauren | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Scholastic, Ya Fiction, Zora Neale Hurston, Barbara Michaels, Harper Lee, Teen-Read-Week, Cecil Castellucci, Kim Harrington, Elizabeth Eulberg, Coe Booth, To Kill a Mockingbird, High School News

To help celebrate Teen Read Week, our friends at Scholastic talked to famous authors to find out what books they loved when they were teenagers. Have ...

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The Pleasures of Rereading

Dave Astor | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: J.K. Rowling, John Steinbeck, Baseball, L.M. Montgomery, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Zora Neale Hurston, Rereading Books, Herman Melville, Charlotte Bronte, Rereading Novels, Alfred Payson Terhune, Alexandre Dumas, J.R.R. Tolkien, Marseille, Morality, Harry Potter, Mark Twain, Nostalgia, Dogs, Books News
Dave Astor

Reading a beloved book twice, thrice, or more is a craving that can't be denied. It's pleasurable, comforting, and relaxing -- partly because you don't have to figure out what the author is doing from scratch.

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Literary Divas You Can’t Help But Love

flavorwire.com | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Literature, Joyce Carol Oates, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Jamaica Kincaid, Terry McMillan, Literary Divas, Amy Chua, Margaret Atwood, Bernard Henri Levy, Salman Rushdie, Joan Acocella, Books News

There are divas and there are their lesser-known male counterparts, divos; the thing that unites them is their willingness to make demands and to do w...

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The Personal Meaning of Black History Month

Kamala D. Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: W.E.B. Debois, Obama Election, Zora Neale Hurston, Kamala Harris, American History, Segregation, Berkeley, Coretta Scott King, Recession, Healthcare, Civil Rights, African Americans, Black History Month, Politics News
Kamala D. Harris

The fact that we recognize Black History Month has enormous significance. This generation's challenge is to transform the opportunity to make change into a reality of social and economic justice.

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Best Literary Sex Scenes (Most Don't Take Place In Beds)

flavorwire.com | Kathleen Massara | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Milan Kundera, Beloved, Toni Morrison, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, Joyce Carol Oates, Literary Sex Scenes, Sex, Kathy Acker, Zora Neale Hurston, Benjamin Hale, Books News

Writing about sex in literature is a difficult task; there are so many ways authors can go wrong. Nowadays, most writers spend too much time on the bu...

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American Woman: 15 Trailblazers Vogue Left Off Their List (PHOTOS)

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Georgia O'Keefe, Style News, Dorothy Parker, Zora Neale Hurston, Donna Karan, Vogue, Feminist, Toni Morrison, Lucille Ball, Anna Wintour, Alice Walker, Billie Jean King, Feminism, Met Gala, Lee Miller, Gloria Steinem, American Women, Katie Roiphe, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Katharine Hepburn, Style, Lesley M. M. Blume, Ella Fitzgerald, Brooke Astor, Annie Oakley, American Woman, Diana Vreeland, Carol Burnett, Fashion, Tina Fey, Costume Institute Gala, Slidepollajax, Style News
Lesley M. M. Blume

At this time of year, for those in the fashion industry, "going to the Met" has nothing to do with spending a lazy day in the galleries, admiring Byza...

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