![]() ![]() If it wasn’t for Carol, we never would have worked together in the first place. The book was the brainchild of Lerner Editorial Director Carol Hinz. The aim was to write about universal subjects with the topic of race as a through line, which turned into Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes and Friendship. ![]() ![]() This all started with an email from one poet (Irene) to another (Charles) in February 2015, with an invitation to work on poems for a potential book from Lerner Publishing Group. The poets discuss the origins of the project and the responsibility they felt to do justice to the survivors-and to their living descendants.Īfrican Town is your third literary collaboration. In many voices and poetic forms, Latham and Waters powerfully chronicle their story. After the Civil War, the group’s survivors created a community that still exists today, now called Africatown. ![]() In 1860, decades after the federal government had banned the importation of slaves, a group of 110 Africans were forcibly brought to the United States and enslaved. Their third book together, African Town, is a novel in verse for teen readers about historical events known by far too few Americans. Poets Irene Latham and Charles Waters have collaborated on two books for young readers. ![]()
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Readers unmoved by the charms of cricket should not be fazed by the praise it received from Wisden (it was runner-up in its list of greatest cricket books ever written). That book, following the rise and mysterious vanishing of an improbably talented Sri Lankan bowler, was first self-published, but has since come to be firmly established as a classic of modern South Asian fiction. ![]() Admirers of his cracking debut, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew (2010), have been wondering what became of Shehan Karunatilaka. ![]() ![]() This charming guy shoots and kills a man, Johnny Cash-style, just to watch him die.īut this ain't just a feel-bad book about a cold-blooded seaside murder. 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James Roberts: Would you mind telling us a little bit about your new book, Population Wars? Population Wars is now available in bookstores everywhere. Graffin about his book, his studies, and the intersectionality between his art and academic work. I recently had the honor of speaking with Dr. His latest book, Population Wars, serves as a sort of follow-up to 2010’s Anarchy Evolution. In addition to all his other works, Graffin is also an accomplished writer, who further explores his worldview with succinct clarity, bridging the gap between the layman and the master. His experiences in music and academia have given Graffin a unique and fascinating worldview that has been explored lyrically for the past few decades, both with Bad Religion and as a solo folk artist. 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