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  • Books We Love – Week Two

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    The Road Author: Cormac McCarthy Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction Follow the journey of a father and son through post-apocalyptic America. The world is still, the falling snow is gray, and their destination is the coast to survive the winter. They have few possessions, barely enough to fill a supermarket shopping cart.…

  • Judy Blume

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    Judy Blume was born two days before Valentine’s Day in 1938 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She was the second child of her parents, Rudolph and Esther Sussman. Blume loved to read as a child, and she was always imagining new stories. She went to an all-girls’ high school, and later…

  • 8 Things You May Not Know About Alice Walker

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    Alice Walker—novelist, poet, feminist, and civil rights activist—was born February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia. She is most famous for her novel The Color Purple (1982), which was later turned into a movie (1985) directed by Steven Spielberg and is still performed as a musical today. She had her hands…

  • Writing for Change- Ryan Coogler

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    Every year, the Organization of Black Students (OBS) at the University of Chicago invites a guest speaker to deliver the “Kent Lecture”  to the University population. The speaker is generally involved, in some measure, with promoting black culture in the United States and speaking about their work regarding  black issues.…

  • Books We Love – Week One

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    Here at the University Press, we love books, and to celebrate Library Lover’s month, we’ll be posting some of our all-time favorite novels and stories. Here are just a few to start us off: 1984 Author: George Orwell Genre: Dystopian, political fiction, social science fiction Written in 1948, George Orwell’s…

  • Celebrating Chinese Authors!

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    With the start of the Chinese New Year, we at the Press are focusing a few notable Chinese and Chinese-American authors, their accomplishments, and their contributions to the literary world.   Maxine Hong Kingston Born and raised in Stockton, California, Kingston is a first-generation Chinese-American writer who has written critically-acclaimed…

  • Lewis Carroll: Literary Genius

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    Lewis Carroll, or Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was born January 27, 1832 in Cheshire, England. Charles suffered socially due to a speech impediment but excelled academically. Later, he became a talented mathematician, and even taught with Christ Church, Oxford for over twenty-five years. He also published several books about geometry, algebra,…

  • Winnie the Pooh

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    Happy Winnie the Pooh Day! Growing up, I loved A. A. Milne’s famous creation enough to have homemade stuffed versions of Pooh and several of his friends. I was not alone in my fascination. This iconic bear is widely appreciated among both children and adults all over the world. The…