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The Enduring Impact of Slavery
Award winning, former Detroit Free Press columnist, Rochelle Riley discusses "The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery," a compilation of essays she edited and to which she contributed. Riley talks with Janet Webster Jones, the owner of Source Booksellers about the book…
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Detroit Book Review Episode 2 July 2019
Coleman A. Young and George Crockett are a few of the Detroiters that show up in "A Good American Family" by David Maraniss, a chronicle of Maraniss' father's being swept up in the "Red Scare" of the 1950s. Motherhood's sometimes not-so-happy endings are the subject of the fiction collection…
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Detroit Book Review - April 2019
This inaugural episode features Janet Webster Jones of Source Booksellers discussing essays by Rebecca Solnit and Toni Morrison as well as James Baldwin's influence on nonfiction. Colleen Kammer of the Book Beat talks about the effect of reading aloud to older and younger children, and Susan…
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A monthly discussion with independent booksellers in Metro Detroit, what they're excited about, reading and recommending.
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