Jesmyn Ward appears in the following:
In Beyoncé's 'Formation,' A Glorification Of 'Bama' Blackness
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Author Jesmyn Ward won a National Book Award for Salvage the Bones, her gritty and lyrical novel of Hurricane Katrina-era Mississippi. In this essay, as in all of her work, she doesn't mince words.
I was a freshman at Stanford University the first time someone called me a ...
Jesmyn Ward: Waiting for Katrina
Friday, January 03, 2014
Jesmyn Ward on Men We Reaped
Monday, September 30, 2013
Jesmyn Ward talks about losing five young men in her life to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the problems poverty brings, particularly for black men. In Men We Reaped she writes of the agonizing losses of her only brother and her friends and of her exploration into the forces that shaped their lives and led to their deaths—the racism and economic struggles that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships.
Jesmyn Ward: Waiting for Katrina
Friday, June 15, 2012
Bold, Beautiful Violence In A Strange, Savage Town
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
[Spoiler alert: This review gives away some elements of the story.]
When a friend gave me Merce Rodoreda's Death in Spring, he told me it would blow my mind. Ten pages in, I doubted his claim.
The book begins when the narrator, a 14-year-old boy from a small mountain village, ...