CI4: Bestselling Novelist Julia Alvarez Turns Poet

Alvarez discusses how writing poetry helped her through a period of intense grief in her life. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]

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CI4: Bestselling Novelist Julia Alvarez Turns Poet

Alvarez discusses how writing poetry helped her through a period of intense grief in her life. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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July Religion Bestsellers: The Warrior Poet Dominates; Colleen Coble 'Breaks' #4

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Julie Powell, bestselling author of 'Julie & Julia,' dies at 49

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Words with Fangs: Finding Myself in Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

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Kyle Lucia Wu on What Novelists Can Learn From Poets

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Pierre Jarawan: Lebanon to Germany, Slam Poet to Bestseller

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Poets and novelists have been writing about life under COVID-19 for more than a century

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An Afternoon with Julia Alvarez on Afterlife

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Julia Alvarez and the Female Book of Job

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Wes Moore, Julia Alvarez Highlight ALA Midwinter 2020 Speakers Program

At the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia, librarians will gear up for what figures to be an eventful year with a slate of inspiring authors and speakers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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