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“ "Gertrude Stein, having been a close comrade of Picasso’s gives access to the influences and thoughts behind each of his movements." ” |
“ "The story carries you along through his adolescence while he tries to grasp a sense of identity and understand how it came to be that he and his own mother look nothing alike." ” |
 Ta-Nehisi Coates' new book Between the World & Me has been a prescient reminder of how far we've come and how far we have still to go in race relations in America. In his writings for the Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates has offered a number of book suggestions. Here's a list of 10 books reccommended by the acclaimed author.     |
The author of To Kill a Mockingbird was born April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. Her debut novel received the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award that same year. Lee has garnered a number of awards including a Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Arts.
Two Lines Press is a publisher of translated fiction and nonfiction, offering American readers the opportunity to read some great work from abroad. Two Lines Press endeavors to give readers another point of entry to an international discussion and to see that great literature isn’t created by the background of the culture in which its produced but by the talent of the writer that produces it (and the translator that brings it to English).
