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Jesmyn Ward

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In new essay collection, two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward muses 'On Witness and Respair'

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By Jesmyn Ward
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Host Indira Lakshmanan speaks with MacArthur Genius Grant recipient Jesmyn Ward. In her new collection of essays, "On Witness and Respair," Ward reflects on the importance of storytelling, bearing witness to racism, and finding healing and hope. Introduction I FIRST SAW THE MISSISSIPPI STATE AUTHORS MAP WHEN I was in elementary school.
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Vanity Fair

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By Jesmyn Ward
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In an essay from her forthcoming work of nonfiction, the novelist and recipient of the MacArthur Genius Grant reflects on the storytellers that made her a writer. My maternal grandmother, Dorothy, was born in 1940, delivered by a midwife. She shared her mother's womb with a twin who was stillborn, named Shirley Temple, who did not survive her entry into this world. Baby Shirley came out of my great-grandmother Mary with a deep indenta-tion in her forehead, and she never breathed.
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ON WITNESS AND RESPAIR

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By Jesmyn Ward
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A virtuoso performance and an ode to an undervalued medium created by two talented artists. The veteran actor, comedian, and banjo player teams up with the acclaimed illustrator to create a unique book of cartoons that communicates their personalities. Martin, also a prolific author, has always been intrigued by the cartoons strewn throughout the pages of the New Yorker.
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