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Saeed Jones on coming-out memoir: 'I'm living a dream come true, but at what cost?'
In a new memoir, poet Saeed Jones relates his struggles as a young black gay man in Texas.
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Review: 'How We Fight for Our Lives,' by Saeed Jones
NONFICTION: Saeed Jones brings a poet's sensibility to a concise and controlled memoir about growing up black and gay.
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Review: 'Red at the Bone,' by Jacqueline Woodson
FICTION: From a beloved chronicler of African-American life, a story of three generations of a Brooklyn family.
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Review: 'The Second Founding,' by Eric Foner
NONFICTION: In "The Second Founding," Pulitzer-winning historian Eric Foner traces the path that led to the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments.
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Review: 'A Guest of the Reich: The Story of American Heiress Gertrude Legendre's Dramatic Captivity and Escape From Nazi Germany,' by Peter Finn
NONFICTION: A Washington Post editor details the escape of a wealthy American "adventuress" from her Nazi captors.
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Review: 'The Topeka School,' by Ben Lerner
FICTION: A compelling — if occasionally overwrought — investigation of how wider cultural forces shaped one family in 1990s Topeka.
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Review: 'Out of Darkness, Shining Light,' by Petina Gappah
FICTION: Petina Gappah's novel re-creates the odyssey made by David Livingstone's servants after his death.
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Review: 'Carrying Water to the Field,' by Joyce Sutphen
POETRY: A retrospective of Joyce Sutphen's poetry finds meaning in the natural world and the rhythms of work.
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'Write my life': A stranger's plea inspired Alice Hoffman's new novel
An encounter years ago led to Alice Hoffman's new Holocaust-inspired novel.
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These 4 picture books from Minnesota writers aren't just for kids
Picture books continue to grow more diverse, more sophisticated and carry subtler, important messages.
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