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Recognize! 'Tinkers' Takes The Pulitizers

This year’s Pultizer Prize for Fiction goes to Paul Harding and his debut novel Tinkers, which is about a man and his fixation with building and mending and, obviously, tinkering.

Other book winners included:

History: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed

Biography: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by [...]

Curiouser and Curiouser: The Many Faces of Alice

Beyonce as Alice (2008)

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as, Lewis Carroll, a modest reverend and mathematician wrote and published the stories he told his real-life muse, Alice Liddell. Since Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There we have come to love Wonderland and, as solidified [...]

Recognize! Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Recognize! Happy Black Girl Day

Are you on Twitter? We are (@UptownLiterati) and we follow an amazing “twibe” of folks, mostly women, and largely women of color. Today, one (@SisterToldja) declared January 7 #HappyBlackGirlDay. How much do we love that?

If you’re looking to celebrate offline, check out some of my favorite #HappyBlackGirlDay books:

What Looks Like Crazy on an [...]

Happy Holidays!

Hope you’re enjoying the holidays (and the extra time to read) with the people that you love!

–Whitney

Recognize! Herta Müller Scores Nobel Prize for Literature

Here’s another chick to add to your Girl Power! list. Herta Müller, a German poet and essayist, was recognized by The Swedish Academy for “the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed,” reports the Associated Press. The Nobel Prize Laureate frequently writes about her experiences under the oppressing [...]

Recognize! UL visits the D.C Book Festival

Last weekend, UL had the chance to join other giddy bibliophiles at the annual D.C Book Festival held on the National Mall. We scoped the festival grounds looking for cool readers like yourselves to find out what books they are currently reading and which authors they came to see:

Meet American University student Lauren, who [...]

Recognize! Hispanic Heritage Month

September 15th-October 15th is National Hispanic Heritage Month, and UL proudly acknowledges the incredible contributions and achievements from Hispanic Americans (the most recent standout, of course, being newly appointed Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic American to serve on the Court).

But there is no shortage of brilliance from the [...]