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The Residue Years
A Novel
2013
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Winner Whiting Writers' AwardWinner Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary ExcellenceFinalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut FictionFinalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel PrizeFinalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy AwardMitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood in America's whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the '90s, those streets and beyond...
Stories Can Save Us
America’s Best Narrative Journalists Explain How
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- Matt TullisBen MontgomeryAudra D.S BurchBrin-Jonathan ButlerPamela ColloffJohn Woodrow CoxKim CrossBronwen DickeyMirin FaderLatria GrahamDavid GrannElon GreenVanessa GrigoriadisEva HollandMitchell S. JacksonChris JonesTom JunodAbbott KahlerMichael KruseJeanne Marie LaskasRachel MonroeVann R. Newkirk IIBradford PearsonAndrea PitzerEli SaslowLeah SottileWright ThompsonSarah Weinman
2024
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Great journalism relies on a narrative arc to engage and inform the reader. Stories Can Save Us looks at how the best reporters and writers craft narrative literary journalism. Journalist Matt Tullis uses the material he gathered in the more than seventy-five interviews he conducted with the best narrative and literary journalists in the country through his podcast, Gangrey: The Podcast, to show how these professionals conceive and writesuch compelling stories.Thr...
Fly
The Big Book of Basketball Fashion
2023
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A USA Today bestseller!Equal parts photo-rich lookbook, and cultural commentary, Fly: The Big Book of Basketball Fashion is the story of the extraordinary intersection of high fashion and basketball, from the league's inception to today, and celebrates the iconic style of NBA athletesEach chapter explores the style of an era and the cultural influences tha...
The Residue Years
from Pulitzer prize-winner Mitchell S. Jackson
2020
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'This novel is written with a breathtaking, exhilarating assurance and wit. Terrific' The Times'A wrenchingly beautiful debut by a writer to be reckoned with' Jesmyn WardMitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighbourhood in America's whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the '90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. In his commanding autobiographical novel, Jackson...
Survival Math
Notes on an All-American Family
2019
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'A mesmerising book, full of story, truth, pain, lyricism, humour and astonishment: the stuff of a difficult life, fully lived, and masterfully transformed into art' SALMAN RUSHDIE'I****ntimate and wise, poignant and compassionate, redemptive and raw. You have to read this beautiful book' CHERYL STRAYED, author of WildAn electrifying, dazzlingly written reckoning and an essential addition to the conversation about race and class,