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Category: Fiction, Literature, and the Arts
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At the start of Love & Fury, Richard Hoffman's father tells him that his will is pretty simple. The same could not be said about their relationship. In his memoir, Hoffman writes elegiacally of his upbringing in a working-class Pennsylvania family where he would inherit the abuse, racism, sexism, and other toxic values he would come…
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“Staggerlee wonders” is a poem that could have been written for the current moment, a poem imbued with the spirit of #BlackLivesMatter, with the heartbreak and the anger of #ICantBreathe.
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Beacon Broadside recently spoke with Daisy Hernández about her new book A Cup of Water Under My Bed, her literary and cultural influences, and the process of finding herself, both within her immigrant community and within the new, queer life she created for herself.
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Beacon remembers the prolific and beloved children’s book writer Walter Dean Myers, author of over 100 books, including ‘Bad Boy,’ ‘Monster,’ ‘Darius & Twig,’ ‘Lockdown,’ and ‘Autobiography of My Dead Brother.’
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Beacon publicity assistant Nicholas Disabatino recommends five stellar books of LGBT poetry to read during Pride Month and beyond.
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Love & Fury by Richard Hoffman: A Memoir on Class, Race, & What It Means to Be a Good Man in America
In his new memoir ‘Love & Fury,’ acclaimed poet and writer Richard Hoffman reflects on his upbringing in a post-World War II blue-collar family, coming to terms with the racism, sexism, and other toxic values he inherited. At the book’s core are the author’s questions about boyhood, fatherhood, and grandfatherhood, and about the changing meaning…
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A new video illustrates Mary Oliver’s dark and beautiful poem “Night and the River,” first published in ‘Red Bird’ and later recorded by Mary Oliver for the CD ‘Many Miles: Mary Oliver Reads Mary Oliver.’
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A publicity assistant at Beacon Press rediscovers the gift of James Baldwin’s words and poetry.
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Ever wonder what publishing professionals read in their spare time? Wonder no more! Here is the definitive list of Beacon Press’s reading recommendations for 2013. A professional cyclist kicked out of the sport, a cigar smoking dragon, a Greek chorus of gay men lost to AIDS, a boyhood marred by abuse, a bullying presidency, Albert…
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