2Leaf Press is full of surprises! Here is a sneak peak of some of our Fall books coming out in October and November 2018. It’s a fall of memoirs, personal narratives, and the publication of a literary classic. And this is just the beginning. Stay tuned.
I first met Abiodun Oyewole in 2003. I was cohost to phatLiterature, A Literary TV Program, which broadcast on public access and college stations throughout the country. We did an episode entitled “Political Poetry,” and I asked Abiodun if he would be interested in participating and he said yes. We’ve been in each other’s sphere ever since.
I first heard Youssef Alaoui recite poetry from a DVD that filmmaker Vagabond produced and played for me, and I found his poetry well-written and very interesting. When I got to know Youssef better, I found him equally interesting, a Latino Moroccan poet who speaks three languages living in California. While he is well-known and well-respected in his local community, I never heard of him, but I wanted to know more about him and his work.
Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA hosts New England contributors of WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA? on Nov. 4th at 7 PM.
AMBER SPARKS | ELECTRIC LITERATURE Google almost any celebrated short story writer – George Saunders, Kelly Link, Alice Munro, Isak Dinesen, Joy Williams – and you’re likely to see the same two words over and over again: “writer’s writer.” Lest you be tempted to exalt that phrase’s use, consider Cynthia Ozick’s description: “Every writer understands […]
MICHELLE DEAN | THE GUARDIAN The editor of Bookslut, which shut down last week, talks to the Guardian about the current state of American literature and its attendant frustrations A couple of weeks ago, Jessa Crispin shut down her book review site, Bookslut, after 14 years. At a Brooklyn coffee shop last week, she told […]
While the phrase “close reading” may not resonate for someone outside of an English department, Stanford literary scholar Paula Moya wants to reclaim the useful literary tool, especially when it comes to multicultural writers.
2Leaf Press announces the publication of the poetry collections, TARTESSOS AND OTHER CITIES by Claire Millikin and OFF COURSE: ROUNDABOUTS & DEVIATIONS by A. Robert Lee, their second books of poetry with 2Leaf Press.
Wired, the San Francisco, Calif.-based magazine and digital publication, has launched a book club as a part of its expanding culture coverage. Its first selection is N.K. Jemisin’s Hugo Award-nominated The Fifth Season
NIRAJ CHOKSHI | THE INDEPENDENT Explicit sexuality, offensive language, homosexuality, a religious viewpoint: Those are a few of the common objections to the 10 most-challenged books of 2015, according to the American Library Association’s latest “State of America’s Libraries” report. The list, published Monday, includes some well-known titles — the Holy Bible ranked sixth — […]
2Leaf Press is thrilled to announce the publication of its highly anticipated book, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA?
2Leaf Press is proud to announce its new series, 2LP EXPLORATIONS IN DIVERSITY.
NATALIE WALTERS, JACQUELYN SMITH, BUSINESS INSIDER | THE INDEPENDENT Do you aspire to be one of those people who knows at least a little bit about a lot of things? One way of doing it is to read as much as you can, and across as wide a range of genres as possible. Read more […]
JOE WIKERT’S DIGITAL CONTENT STRATEGIES When was the last time you used an index in an ebook? Maybe the better question is this: Have you ever used an index in an ebook? One of the challenges here is that most ebooks don’t have indexes, the result of the misguided notion that text search is a […]
ALICE JONES | THE INDEPENDENT Books are back. If you are staring at a pile of freshly unwrapped sporting autobiographies and clean eating guides, this may not come as a surprise. Everyone buys books at Christmas; but in 2015, people have been buying them for the other 11 months of the year too, with the […]
A Black-Japanese Amerasian reflects on life in the present, with the traces of wars and their aftermaths. 2Leaf Press is pleased to announce the publication of Fredrick D. Kakinami Cloyd’s first book, DREAM OF THE WATER CHILDREN, MEMORY AND MOURNING IN THE BLACK PACIFIC, in June 2016. In Dream of the Water Children, Fredrick Kakinami […]
We are pleased to announce that Professor, poet and scholar, Tara Betts, will be writing the afterword to WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA due for release April 15, 2016. Betts holds a Ph.D. in English from Binghamton University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from New England College. A Cave Canem […]
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA Breaking the White Code of Silence A Collection of Personal Narratives ISBN-13: 978-1-940939-48-3 (pbk) ISBN-13: 978-1-940939-49-0 (eBook) LCCN: 2015913482 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA, edited by Gabrielle David and Sean Frederick Forbes, with an introduction by Debby Irving and an afterword by […]