Oct 18, 2024 | Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Ohio, Volume 15, Writers of Color
Toni Morrison Euclid Ave. Mural Cleveland, Ohio By Monique Wingard In the tapestry of life, sometimes the threads that pull us away are the same ones that guide us back home. In 2013, the job market in Cleveland had left me feeling shut out, unwanted, unworthy. I hit...
Oct 18, 2024 | Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Ohio, Volume 15, Writers of Color
Toni Morrison Chesapeake Bay Northeast Maryland By Alice Sundman We are driving southward on I-95, toward Washington, D.C. I am trying to take in the landscape around us, a landscape I have never seen before, but that I still, somehow, know in my mind. Here, in the...
Oct 18, 2024 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Nonfiction, Novelists, Ohio, Volume 15, Writers of Color
Toni Morrison Childhood Home Lorain, Ohio By Tara L. Conley “This region (Lorain, Elyria, Oberlin) is not like it was when I lived here, but in a way it doesn’t matter because home is a memory and companions and/or friends who share the memory. But equally important...
Oct 18, 2024 | Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Ohio, Volume 15, Writers of Color
Toni Morrison Lakeview Park Lorain, Ohio By Ashley Burge As a teenager, I entered what Toni Morrison calls her narrative “village” through her first book, The Bluest Eye (1970), and I was pleased to see three young Black girls traverse the familiar experiences of home...
May 9, 2024 | Kansas, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Schools, Volume 14
Bienvenido Santos Ablah Library Wichita, Kansas By Abby Bayani-Heitzman 🎧 Listen at HPPR Filipino American writer Bienvenido “Ben” N. Santos had a complicated relationship with the Midwest. He first arrived in the United States in 1941 as a pensionado, or...
May 4, 2024 | Kansas, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nonfiction, Novelists, Volume 13
Truman Capote 1112 Gillespie Place Garden City, Kansas By Rosemary Hope 🎧 Listen at HPPR This is the story of my house and the foursome who gathered for dinner Christmas Day 1959: Truman Capote, Nelle Harper Lee, and my parents, Dolores and Clifford Hope Jr. It was at...
