Apr 6, 2016
Wear your allegiance to literary bloodsport with pride. It's the official 2016 Tournament of Books T-shirt by book designer Janet Hansen.
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Wear your allegiance to literary bloodsport with pride. It's the official 2016 Tournament of Books T-shirt by book designer Janet Hansen.
Missing the excitement of the Tournament of Books already.
One final post for the year.
See you next time rooster.
"It’s a paradox: Deciding between Flournoy’s debut epic family drama, weaving silences surrounding black migration and depression, and Beatty’s biting wizardry of a deconstruction of the post-post-black life of the Obama era is actually as much win-win as it is lose-lose. We were blessed as judges to read two of the best books published in 2015. This is not hyperbole."—Syreeta McFadden, tournament judge
Wear your allegiance to literary bloodsport with pride. It's the official 2016 Tournament of Books T-shirt by book designer Janet Hansen.
The Tournament of Books has one more semifinal match before the Zombie Round! Stay tuned.
Semifinals: Bats of the Republic v. The Turner House
I’m very excited to be a judge in this year’s Tournament of Books. I got to read and write about two great books, Bats of the Republic and The Turner House. And then I did this:
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A note from Tournament of Books sponsor Field Notes: Buy one of these for $2 and we’ll take your $2 and match it with $2 of our own, and make a donation of $4 to 826 National, a seven-chapter network that provides under-resourced students, ages 6-18 with opportunities to explore their creativity and improve their writing skills.