Zora Neale Hurston News

Emily Seelbinder will speak on "Zora Neale Hurston and the Harlem Renaissance" at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Central Library, 660 W. Fifth St.

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Here's an audition notice for Zora Neale Hurston's Sun to Sun at UCF: Auditions for Zora Neale Hurstona s Sun to Sun @ UCF !! University of Central Florida Conservatory Theatre is holding auditions for its upcoming production of Sun to Sun , a stirring play with music compiled from Zora Neale Hurstona s works, co-produced with Orlandoa s Zora ...

Now that summer has ended and the temperatures have begun to cool, there's nothing better to do on a rainy fall day than spend it with a good book.

Mexican singer Jose Jose, who has sold more than 40 million albums, will be a featured author at the Fourth Dallas International Book Fair , Oct.

The annual nationwide event known as The Big Read kicked off this weekend and will run throughout the month of October with a focus on influencing students and community members to adopt reading as a central part of their lives.

The Maine Humanities Council will present a public symposium, Looking For Zora: The Many Lives of Zora Neale Hurston on October 17, 2009, from 8:30 am - 3:00 pm at Bates College's Pettengill Hall.

Florida State College at Jacksonville Center for Lifelong Learning in Nassau is now enrolling students for two exciting new classes.

What constitutes a classic Florida book? An author's passion for sabal palms, hurricane warnings, mildew, mojitos and the ability to pluck nuggets of truth from our rich and sometimes ugly history? A wicked sense of humor about the subtropical oddities a ' flying cucarachas, copulating iguanas, six-toed cats, swamp-eating developers a ' skittering ...

What constitutes a classic Florida book? An author's passion for sabal palms, hurricane warnings, mildew, mojitos and the ability to pluck nuggets of truth from our rich and sometimes ugly history? A wicked sense of humor about the subtropical oddities a ' flying cucarachas, copulating iguanas, six-toed cats, swamp-eating developers a ' skittering ...

What constitutes a classic Florida book? An author's passion for sabal palms, hurricane warnings, mildew, mojitos and the ability to pluck nuggets of truth from our rich and sometimes ugly history? A wicked sense of humor about the subtropical oddities a ' flying cucarachas, copulating iguanas, six-toed cats, swamp-eating developers a ' skittering ...

In the latest issue of City Journal , John McWhorter offers a very interesting profile of the great Harlem Renaissance novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, who he calls "a fervent Republican who would be at home today on Fox News." I'm not so sure about the Fox News part, but there's no question that Hurston's views leaned in a ...

Since one of this week's Top Stories from the Fat City is our list of the Top Ten Cafes to write a Novel , we thought it was time to take a more literary approach to this weekly list of potent past posts.

Zora Neale Hurston: January 7, 1891 - " January 28, 1960 Zora Neale Hurston was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist whose fictional and factual accounts of black heritage are unparalleled.

But did you know that this exemplar of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s was also an anti-New Deal Republican who supported Robert A. Taft for president in 1952? I learned this a few months ago from Jonathan Bean, when we were discussing a piece that he co-wrote for NRODT on Booker T. Washington.

Zora Neale Hurston came alive June 23 at Louisburg Library. Portrayed by Carmaletta Williams, she told stories of her life to seven people gathered at the library, as part of the librarya s adult summer reading program, co-sponsored by the Kansas Humanities Council.

Their Eyes Were Watching God , by Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God follows Janie Crawford on her journey of self-discovery through three marriages, finally finding the kind of love she longs for when she meets and marries "the roustabout" Tea Cake in her early forties.

A 1937 novel set in Florida has been picked for this year's community reading project this fall, the Forsyth County Public Library announced yesterday.

African-American female authors Gwendolyn Brooks and Zora Neale Hurston published novels that show their characters overcoming hardships in a variety of ways.

Home : Features : Opinions : Urban Literature: Wish It Would Disappear Urban Literature: Wish It Would Disappear 12-Jun-2009 Written by: Ivory Sherman Honestly, Urban Literature is not even worth reading.