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Jennifer Lauck (born December 15, 1963) is an American fiction and non-fiction author, essayist, speaker and writing instructor. She is the author of four books including the New York Times best seller Blackbird. [1] [2] Her writing has been published in the U.S. and around the world and translated into several languages. [3]
Frank McCourt, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela's Ashes, wrote of Blackbird: "Written gloriously and movingly." [3] The Times of London wrote: "Lauck has constructed a riveting narrative from the awful mess of her life. That she has managed to do so fills me with an admiration for which I cannot find words.
It received a starred review from the American Library Association's Booklist. The book's starred review from magazine Kirkus Reviews says that "throughout, the author ably balances great accomplishments and strong emotions. Reading McBride’s inspiring story will make it harder to ostracize or demonize others with similar stories to share."
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From bestselling Africanfuturist author Okorafor (who also coined the term) comes a book-within-a-book that blends sci-fi and literary fiction. In “Death of the A uthor,” disabled Nigerian ...
Blackbird is an online journal of literature and the arts based in the United States that posts two issues a year, May 1 and November 1. During the six-month run of an issue, additional content appears as "featured" content.
Reviewers have praised Waters' negotiation of sexual themes; a review from The Guardian describes it as "erotic and unnerving", [2] while The New York Times praises its "illicit undertow". [ 3 ] Literary critics have also focused on the novel's sexual themes, and identified its engagement with debates surrounding feminism and pornography.
The Los Angeles Review of Books observed Clark's "poetics rooted in DeafBlind sensibility" and said "Many of the poems in How to Communicate are reimaginings of problematic and ableist poems about Deaf and blind people from earlier eras; in one section of the book, Clark offers translations in English of poems originally composed in Protactile ...