The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
By Edwidge Danticat , Jericho Brown , Claudia Rankine , and others
Edited by Jesmyn Ward
Read by Kevin R. Free , Cherise Boothe , Michael Early , Susan Spain , and Korey Jackson
Unabridged
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2 Formats: CD
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2 Formats: Library CD
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ISBN: 9781664458543
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ISBN: 9781664566378
| Runtime: | 5.60 Hours |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Social Science |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
A Kirkus Reviews Pick of 10 Books That Challenge Racism
A LeVar Burton Book Club Pick
The New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race—collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important
voices of her generation
In this bestselling, widely lauded collection, Jesmyn Ward gathers our most original thinkers and writers to speak on contemporary racism and race, including Carol Anderson, Jericho Brown, Edwidge
Danticat, Kevin Young, Claudia Rankine, and Honoree Jeffers. The Fire This Time shines a light on the darkest corners of our history, wrestles with our current predicament, and
imagines a better future.
Envisioned as a response to The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin’s groundbreaking 1963 essay collection, these contemporary writers reflect on the past, present, and future of race in
America. We’ve made significant progress in the fifty-odd years since Baldwin’s essays were published, but America is a long and painful distance away from a “post-racial society”—a truth we must
confront if we are to continue to work towards change.
Baldwin’s “fire next time” is now upon us, and it needs to be talked about.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
Author
Author Bio: Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward received her MFA degree from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, the Strauss Living Prize, and the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. She is the historic winner—first woman and first Black American—of two National Book Awards for Fiction for Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones. She is also the author of the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Media for a Just Society Award. She is a professor of creative writing at Tulane University.
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Author Bio: Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
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Author Bio: Kima Jones
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Author Bio: Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including Brother, I’m Dying, a National Book Critics Circle Award and National Book Award finalist; Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; and The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she has been published in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and elsewhere. She lives in Miami.
Author Bio: Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine is the author of six books, including Just Us, a finalist for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellent in nonfiction. Her work has appeared recently in the London Guardian, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, and the Washington Post. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, the winner of the 2014 Jackson Poetry Prize, and a contributing editor of Poets & Writers. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2016. She is the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University
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Author Bio: Kevin Young
Kevin Young is the author of a books nonfiction and several books of poetry, including Blue Laws, which was long-listed for the National Book Award. He is the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem.
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Author Bio: Jericho Brown
Jericho Brown is author of The Tradition, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has received numerous prizes, including the Whiting Award. Brown’s poems have appeared in numerous major publications. He is the director of the Creative Writing Program and a professor at Emory University, and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Details
Details
| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Social Science |
| Runtime: | 5.60 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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