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Umi Sinha – Life Changing Literature
A therapist once asked me who my role models had been. I thought for a moment and then said ‘Books’.…
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Umi Sinha – Classic Book I’d Like To Rewrite
Later generations think that they can judge earlier ones because we who come later must be morally superior, having greater…
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Trish Cooke – My Reading Habits
I discovered the Black American women writers, like Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Terry McMillan, Alice Walker and Ntozake Shange and…
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Trish Cooke – Classic Book I’d Like To Rewrite
I wrote my version of Rapunzel — Zel: Let Out Your Hair: a child whose afro hair grows up and…
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Simon Mason – Writers Who Inspire Me
T. E. Lawrence lost the only copy of his massive The Seven Pillars of Wisdom on a train and immediately…
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Simon Mason – My Reading Habits
I take notes, very neatly in pencil on a blank page at the end. When I’ve finished, I write a…
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Shanta Everington – My Reading Habits
I can only have one novel on the go at any given time but with creative nonfiction, I often have…
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Shanta Everington – Life Changing Literature
If Deenie was cool, that meant it was okay to have scoliosis and not the shameful secret it had once…
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Nathalie Abi-Ezzi – My Reading Habits
I don’t come from a bookish family, so my addiction to reading was a surprise. My mother read cookbooks, my…
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Nathalie Abi-Ezzi – Life Changing Literature
On its cover, a girl sits astride an alligator with sharp teeth. She’s being swept downstream to who knows where.…
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Michael Bird – My Reading Habits
The three or four pages I’ll be turning as I fall asleep remind me of the individual matchsticks from which…
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Michael Bird – Life Changing Literature
Reading T. S. Eliot, I saw the images, got caught up in the rhythms with no awareness of separation. As…