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Remembering books that enrich our lives.

Chaya Bhuvaneswar: a reading list from a powerful voice in fiction

Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a new voice in fiction with the recent publication of her debut story collection, White Dancing Elephants. In her interview with bookscover2cover, Chaya notes that her work…
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A Book List for Facilitating Workshops for Veterans

Leilani Squire is a published poet and author, CCA Certified Creativity Coach, and Associate Member of The Dramatist Guild. For the past seven years she has facilitated creative writing workshops…
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Messy and Allotrope – two novellas

Messy “Messy” by Robert Hilles is a love story that captures the complexities of love: the difficulties, paradoxes, ambiguities, passions, and truths. It aches, struggles, retrieves, and falls back upon…
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Steve Jones and a Nature-inspired book list

There is no doubt that the author Steve Jones found inspiration for his two recently published books, Nature Based Leadership: Lessons for Living, Learning, Serving, and Leading, and Nature-Inspired Learning…
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Dera Williams reading recommendations: research, writing, and influential authors

Writer, editor, mentor, researcher, and family historian, Dera Williams is the author of a collection of childhood memories, In My Backyard: Stories of Growing Up in Oakland.  Born in Arkansas to…
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Books to influence and inspire – recommended by Jasmine H. Wade

In Jasmine H. Wade’s interview with bookscover2cover, she remembers writing her first “official story” in middle school about “a boy who followed a set of clues to catch a gorilla…
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Weekly Reading Recap, April 10

The Sympathizer With a steady pounding to the U.S. solar plexus, Viet Thanh Nguyen relentlessly holds a mirror to American sensibilities and the underlying imperialistic arrogance that is forever culturally…
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A book list for all time – recommended by Julie Powell

Writers read, and read, and read. Reading is without a doubt an essential part of their craft, and books are a vital source of ideas, landscapes, and different perspectives. In…
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Hugh Martin: a poet’s reading list

Poet and Iraq war veteran Hugh Martin offers his list of influential poets and poetry is this book list extracted from his author interview.
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You don’t want to miss these books

Barbarian Days, Artist of Life, History of Wolves, and The Dry. This week's good reads you don't want to miss.
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To refine her skills as an architect, Nicole Voss went searching for the meaning of creativity. What she found was writing. 6 1
Stephen Newton shares his path from the world of fiction to documentary film making. Stories told with the permission, and earned trust, of the films" subjects. 3 0
"In my childhood, it wasn’t unusual for the crashed remains of fighter planes to be unearthed by farm activity. The fascination of that endurance of past events in the landscape informs my work, I think, in part because I enjoy the notion of the reversal that Garner so brilliantly demonstrated. People think they shape the land. But the land shapes them. Though I’m sure that anyone from an indigenous community reading that would think it was no great insight." - Mark Wagstaff 2 0
'Throughout the majority of humanity’s existence, creativity has been regarded as a mystical enigma. Architect and architecture critic Robert Furneaux Jordan asserted that “to comprehend [creativity] fully would be to be God. We can never comprehend God.” Thanks to this prevailing opinion, it wasn’t until the late 1940s that the study of creativity even started down the path toward legitimacy. In the seven decades since, the psychological and neurological basis of creativity has been fully extracted from the occult and shown to be ingrained in our species.' 8 0
"I write about equity and social justice, just maybe because I want to love this world and I want it—I want us, the people of the world, to treat each other better, or at least move closer to trying. I write about equity and social justice because I spent forty-plus years trying to address it through our educational system, and I don't want to waste the insight I've gained. Loving the world means seeing it as it is and as it might be and doing what I can—which is, now, to write." 3 0
- Viet Thanh Nguyen, Commencement speech @fandmcollege, May 2022. 3 0

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Originally created as a Featured Writers section on bookscover2cover, we decided that writers and poets needed their own site. Thus, The Write Launch, a subsidiary of bookscover2cover, LLC, was born. The Write Launch is a monthly literary magazine that publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by selected writers and poets. Visit thewritelaunch.com and read original work by talented writers and poets from around the world.
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