In Freedom Season, Peniel E. Joseph offers a stirring narrative history of 1963, marking it as the defining year of the Black freedom struggle.
By year’s end the murders of John F. Kennedy, Medgar Evers, and four Black girls at a church in Alabama left the nation determined to imagine a new way forward. “Freedom Season” shows how the upheavals of 1963 planted the seeds for watershed civil rights legislation and renewed hope in the promise and possibility of freedom.
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What We Are Reading Today: Freedom Season by Peniel E. Joseph
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What We Are Reading Today: Freedom Season by Peniel E. Joseph
What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Writer’s Room’ by Katie Da Cunha Lewin
Virginia Woolf famously wrote in “A Room of One’s Own” that “it is necessary to have 500 a year and a room with a lock on the door if you are to write fiction or poetry.”
Writers have worked in all kinds of places, from garrets and sheds to boarding houses, bathrooms, and even while on the move.
What is it that fascinates us about the writer’s room? This book takes readers inside literature’s creative spaces to explore this tantalizing question.
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