Author & Leader Interviews, Books for Adults . By Maya Smart | February 06 , 2018

Tayari Jones Discusses An American Marriage

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Author & Leader Interviews, Books for Adults . By Maya Smart | September 05 , 2017

Jesmyn Ward Discusses Sing, Unburied, Sing

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Author & Leader Interviews, Books for Adults . By Maya Smart | August 15 , 2017

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton Discusses A Kind of Freedom

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Author & Leader Interviews, Books for Adults . By Maya Smart | April 04 , 2017

Stephanie Powell Watts Discusses No One Is Coming to Save Us

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Kids Books, Author & Leader Interviews, Books for Adults . By Maya Smart | February 27 , 2017

Angie Thomas Discusses The Hate U Give

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Author & Leader Interviews, Books for Adults . By Maya Smart | January 23 , 2017

Mychal Denzel Smith On Social Transformation Through Personal Awakening

Necessary and audacious, Mychal Denzel Smith’s assured debut, Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, fuses

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Author & Leader Interviews, Books for Adults . By Maya Smart | January 14 , 2017

In Conversation with Zadie Smith

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Author & Leader Interviews, Books for Adults . By Maya Smart | December 08 , 2016

Patricia Bell-Scott Discusses The Firebrand and the First Lady

In The Firebrand and the First Lady, scholar Patricia Bell-Scott illuminates the unlikely friendship between two historic

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Author & Leader Interviews, Books for Adults . By Maya Smart | October 11 , 2016

Brit Bennett Discusses The Mothers

26-year-old Brit Bennett’s sparkling debut novel, The Mothers, came of age over eight years and several drafts. She began

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Author & Leader Interviews, Books for Adults . By Maya Smart | August 05 , 2016

Jesmyn Ward Discusses The Fire This Time

A powerful new anthology aims to channel the spirit of James Baldwin’s sharp eye and sharper pen, turning them on current

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