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Suggested Reading: Black Women Writers at Work (Haymarket Books, January 2023) edited by Claudia Tate

Originally published in 1983 by Continuum, the late Claudia Tate’s collection of interviews has long been out of print. This new edition, with a foreword by Tillie Olsen, brings candid conversations with Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Margaret Walker,

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