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“For me, books are the things that tell you what you need to do in life and they’re also the things that help you make sense of your life.” Will Schwalbe, author of Books for Living (Knopf, 2016), speaks with PBS NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown about the importance of reading and the books that have taught him life lessons such as Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train (Riverhead Books, 2015), James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room (Dial Press, 1956), and Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon (Knopf, 1977).
Tags: Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | 1956 | 1977 | 2015 | 2016 | Books for Living | Dial Press | Giovanni's Room | James Baldwin | Jeffrey Brown | Knopf | Paula Hawkins | PBS NewsHour | Riverhead Books | Song of Solomon | The Girl on the Train | Toni Morrison | Will Schwalbe -
"In a public library, surrounded by all these books, I felt very much at home." Imbolo Mbue talks about her love of public libraries, reading Toni Morrison's 1977 novel, Song of Solomon, for the first time, and her experience writing her debut novel, Behold the Dreamers (Random House, 2016). Read more about Mbue in "First Fiction 2016" in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine and listen to her read from her debut novel on Ampersand: The Poets & Writers Podcast.
Tags: Random House | talk | Ampersand | Toni Morrison | 2016 | First Fiction 2016 | July/August 2016 | Imbolo Mbue | public library | Song of Solomon | Behold the Dreamers | Fiction
