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WSU Senior Makenzie Campbell Published Her Third Poetry Book

By Murrow News - Sidney Gardner September 22, 2021

More Murrow News Stories PULLMAN WASH.- Like many students, Washington State University senior Makenzie Campbell is celebrating the start of a new school year, but that’s not the only thing she has to celebrate. At the age of 21 Makenzie has just released her third poetry book “Rooms of the Mind”. “I got into writing… Read More

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Brown Album’ Centers On The Erasure Of Race In American Culture

By NPR News May 23, 2020

Brown Album Essays on Exile and Identity by Porochista Khakpour

Porochista Khakpour's work is strongest when she turns the lens on herself to examine how she, too, is complicit; many essays here are just too tantalizingly brief to allow space for deep analysis. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: Read More

BOOK REVIEW: In ‘How Much Of These Hills Is Gold,’ This Land Is Not Your Land

By NPR News April 11, 2020

How Much of These Hills is Gold, by C Pam Zhang

C Pam Zhang's debut novel follows a brother and sister, children of Chinese laborers, as the search the dusty hills of Gold Rush-era California for a place to bury their father's body. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: In ‘How Much Read More

Author L.L. McKinney Says Barnes & Noble ‘Diverse Editions’ Are ‘Literary Blackface’

By NPR News February 8, 2020

$Barnes & Noble has canceled its Black History Month plans to re-release classic novels with cover art depicting characters as people of color, following online criticism. TBWIA\Chiat\Day$

Barnes & Noble suspended its campaign to reissue classic books with covers depicting protagonists as people of color after many authors, including McKinney, criticized the initiative. Continue Reading Author L.L. McKinney Says Read More

Lindy West: ‘The Witches Are Coming’ — And They Are Rightfully Angry

By NPR News November 12, 2019

"For a long time, a certain set of men have called women like me 'witches' to silence and discredit us," West says. Her book explores misogyny, the #MeToo movement and growing up female in America. Continue Reading Lindy West: ‘The Witches Read More

BOOK REVIEW: If Salman Rushdie’s ‘Quichotte’ Drives You Nuts — That’s Fine. It’s Meant To

By NPR News September 8, 2019

Quichotte, by Salman Rushdie - book on a table

It could be argued that Quichotte is a novel that aims to reflect back to us the total insanity of living in a world unmoored from reality — but it's about the power of believing more than anything. Continue Reading Read More

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Night Witches’ Sheds Some Light On Daring Female Flyers

By NPR News March 19, 2019

The Night Witches by Garth Ennis and Russ Braun Paperback, 256 pages

Garth Ennis' new graphic novel creates a fictional character to flesh out the stories of the real Night Witches, Soviet female pilots who dropped bombs on the Nazis from rickety old biplanes. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: ‘Night Read More

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Infidel’ Uses The Supernatural To Explore Racism’s Real-Life Horrors

By NPR News October 8, 2018

by Aaron Campbell, Jose Villarrubia, Pornsak Pichetshote and Jeff Powell. Paperback, 168 pages

The new comic series from creators Pornsak Pichetshote and Aaron Campbell follows a young Muslim-American woman living in an apartment building haunted by evil entities that feed on racist hate. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: Read More

The Great American Read Resumes September 11

By Kanale Rhoden September 7, 2018

Hosted by Meredith Vieira, The Great American Read, is a multi-platform initiative that’s designed to spark a national conversation about reading, literacy and the books that have inspired us. Series returns September 11th, to help discover America's favorite book! Read More

A Journalist’s Journey, Guided By Curiosity For Her Father’s Illness

By PBS Newshour August 14, 2018

Jean Guerrero’s "Crux" is the odyssey of a daughter in search of herself as she comes to terms with her own mentally ill father. Amna Nawaz talks with the author, who is also a journalist for KPBS, about how she told her own family’s story. Continue Read More