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Langston Hughes, Kids Who Die (1938), in The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, (1994), Edited with an Introduction by Arnold Rampersad, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1997, pp. 210-211

«My one regret about my fine time of learning and discovery at Columbia is the knowledge that other African Americans who later went on to become movers and shakers in the world were turned away from the university. […] Langston Hughes, accepted at Columbia University in the early twenties, was denied a room in the dormitory because he was black. He lived in the Harlem YMCA, spent much of his time exploring the cultural attractions of Harlem, and dropped out after only a year at Columbia. He eventually graduated from Lincoln, a black college in Pennsylvania. By 1926, he had published his first volume of poetry. The rest is history.» – Wendy Jones, Columbia and Race: In the Right and in the Wrong, «Write Columbia's History». C250 Perspectives, Columbia University, New York, NY, [2003-2004]

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Yusaku Kamekura

book cover design for Paul Rand: His Work from 1946 to 1958, Alfred A. Knopf, 1959

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Krazy Kat (1988)

Jay Cantor

Alfred A. Knopf

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Sally Watson - Magic at Wychwood - Alfred A. Knopf - 1970 (illustrated by Frank Bozzo)

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1st edition, Knopf, 1995. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.

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Here’s the title poem from Tomás Q. Morín’s collection Machete, which cuts through the layers of contemporary life, discovering joy and pain, the pulse of words and music, the construction of identity and the urgency of connection.

Machete

When they stare I know it is my skin they fear, this face, this hair so unlike theirs. I meet their eyes and make them sway like fields of cane. When they stiffen, I sharpen the edge of my smile and watch them fall. I love them in my cake, how they sink in the dark coffee where they give up the sweetness they make me take one slice at a time. . .

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Birthday Anniversary: Emma Goldman, June 27, 1869

Today is the anniversary of Emma Goldman’s birth on June 27, 1869. Goldman, renowned anarchist and supporter of birth control, wrote her autobiography, Living My Life, while living in Saint-Tropez, France, after leaving Russia, disillusioned by the government that arose after the Russian Revolution. It was published in two volumes in 1931, and then as a single volume in 1934 by Alfred A. Knopf. Our copy was signed by Goldman in Milwaukee in 1934. 

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

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Muzoon: A Syrian Refugee Speaks Out by Muzoon Almellehan with Wendy Pearlman

Muzoon: A Syrian Refugee Speaks Out by Muzoon Almellehan with Wendy Pearlman. Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. 9781984851987  Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 5 Format: Hardcover Genre:  Memoir What did you like about the book? Muzoon loves her home in Syria from the olive groves to the fruit trees that surround her home. Her story starts as she describes her home, extended family,…

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Book 421

The Illusion of Orderly Progress

Barbara Norfleet

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1999

This is a peculiar book, but one that reveals deeper meanings with repeat viewings. In this book, Barbara Norfleet (b. 1926), a documentary photographer whose work explores American culture, takes dried insects and poses them in tableaux mimicking human behavior. In one photo, titled “Am I Pretty?,” a group of beetles are posed as though contestants in a beauty pageant. In another, titled “Toys,” three beetles are anchored to three flying insects like they’re kites. Norfleet takes a perverse delight in presenting the ridiculousness of dead insects acting like living people, and that, in turn, reflects the absurdity of human behavior in light of our animal instincts.

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Ride Beside Me by Lucy Knisley

Ride Beside Me by Lucy Knisley. Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. 9781984897190 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 4 Format: Hardcover picture book What did you like about the book? A little boy and his mom take part in a neighborhood group ride “up the hill and back down!” In his shotgun bike seat, he enjoys snacks and observes the throng of other bicycle riders, a group that’s diverse…

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Review: The Guide by Peter Heller

Author: Peter HellerPublisher: Alfred A. KnopfReleased: August 24, 2021Received: Own (Book Club) Find it on Goodreads | More Thrillers Book Summary: Jack is no stranger to guilt and loss. Yet his most recent loss has him reeling. Desperate to escape it all, he takes on a position to work as a guide in what feels like the middle of nowhere. With the pandemic rising, the isolation is only going…

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The Names (1982)

Don DeLillo

Alfred A. Knopf

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Euripides - The Trojan Women - Alfred A. Knopf - 1967

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Anthony Hyde - China Lake

Links uz grāmatas Goodreads lapu Izdevniecība: Alfred A. Knopf Manas pārdomas Viens zvans vēlā vakara stundā izmaina Jack Tannis atliku��o dzīvi uz neatgriešanos. Viens zvans no pagātnes izvelk jau šķietami nevienam vairs nesvarīgu atgadījumu, kad jauna veida raķešu tehnoloģija pēkšņi nonāca Padomju Savienības rokās. Džeks būtu pasūtījis pēc balss nepazīstamo personu pāris mājas tālāk, ja ne…

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The Seventies were weird. A lot of long-established conventions faltered or were kicked over, a lot of idealistic ventures were launched, often fueled more by hope than resources, and many institutions grabbed desperately at innovations they gambled would turn into lifelines. One such experiment was Alfred A. Knopf’s brief series of dust jacketless, shiny-covered hardbacks that championed the work of young American writers playing around with fictional forms and styles — a series referred to as “Borzoi puppies” after Knopf’s legendary Borzoi Books. Knopf launched the series by promising to break new ground between traditional hardbacks and cheap mass market paperbacks, offering “new novels at plausible prices.” 

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