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HOW TO SAY BAYLON on Obama’s list

January 18, 2024


Safiya Sinclair’s memoir, HOW TO SAY BABYLON, is named one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2023

https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1738258302285283466?lang=en

HOW TO SAY BABYLON and BUILT FROM THE FIRE are 2023 New York Times Notable Books!

December 21, 2023


The standout 100 books of 2023, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/21/books/notable-books.html

CACOPHONY OF BONE featured in Orion Magazine

November 15, 2023


A conversation with Irish author Kerri ní Dochartaigh about her book CACOPHONY OF BONE: “I am partial to winter light, the kind that falls on crows and on swans alike. The kind that reminds us what it means to dream, to fly, to love, to live, to forgive.”

https://orionmagazine.org/article/cacophany-of-bone-book-interview-kerri-ni-dochartaigh/

Adam Grant chats with Oprah

October 25, 2023


Oprah and Adam Grant Reveal How to Unlock Your Hidden Potential in an installment of “The Life You Want” class.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAhCJnCRnwg

HOW TO SAY BABYLON is a Read with Jenna pick on the TODAY show

October 25, 2023


Author Safiya Sinclair joins TODAY to talk about her memoir HOW TO SAY BABYLON and answers questions from the Harlem branch of the Mocha Girls Read book club.

https://www.today.com/video/author-safiya-sinclair-talks-memoir-how-to-say-babylon-196369989788

Adam Grant on CBS Mornings

October 24, 2023


Grant talks to CBS Mornings about his new book HIDDEN POTENTIAL: The Science of Achieving Greater Things and why he thinks all people can rise to achieve great things.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/author-adam-grant-takes-a-stand-against-perfectionism-and-natural-born-talent/

Elizabeth Rush on NPR’s Morning Edition

August 19, 2023


Elizabeth Rush talks about her journey to Antarctica and motherhood on NPR’s Morning Edition

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/17/1194349667/the-quickening-considers-bringing-a-child-into-a-world-with-a-changing-climate

The L.A. Times reviews THE QUICKENING

August 14, 2023


​Lorraine Berry reviews Elizabeth Rush’s THE QUICKENING for Los Angeles Times: “We have long spoken of journeys to the poles as going “to the ends of the earth.” But what if a voyage to Antarctica takes us to beginnings?”

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-08-14/the-quickening-elizabeth-rush-book-review

BUILT FROM THE FIRE featured on NPR’s Morning Edition

May 30, 2023


NPR’s Michel Martin talks to Victor Luckerson, author of Built from the Fire, and Oklahoma state Rep. Regina Goodwin, about the lasting effects of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/30/1178773425/tulsa-race-massacre-ramifications-of-what-happened-in-1921-can-still-be-seen-tod

BUILT FROM THE FIRE reviewed in Minneapolis Star Tribune

May 18, 2023


Joseph Williams reviews Victor Luckerson’s BUILT FROM THE FIRE for the Star Tribune: In Victor Luckerson’s BUILT FROM THE FIRE, the atrocity that destroyed the thriving epicenter of Black Tulsa — but remained buried in U.S. history for decades — stands in for a larger American story. . . how white fear & resentment has sabotaged racial progress & claimed Black lives, in the present and past.”

https://www.startribune.com/looking-back-at-the-massacre-that-wiped-out-black-tulsa-and-forward-at-efforts-to-rebuild-luckerson/600275920/

Excerpt from THE QUICKENING in Vogue

April 22, 2023


An excerpt from Elizabeth Rush’s THE QUICKENING is published in Vogue: “What Antarctica’s Melting Glaciers Taught Me About Becoming a Mother”

https://www.vogue.com/article/melting-glacier-motherhood

Rita Dove & Safiya Sinclair featured in New York Times T: The Style Magazine

April 20, 2023


Rita Dove on the poetry of Safiya Sinclair: “[T]o paraphrase Emily Dickinson, she took the top of my head off! I was electrified by the soul & muscular elegance of the poems.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/t-magazine/rita-dove-safiya-sinclair.html



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