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Key Conversations with Phi Beta Kappa2024 Phi Beta Kappa Book AwardsThe Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards are presented annually to three outstanding scholarly books published in the United States. The 2024 winners are Gregg Hecimovich for his book The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative; Jeremy Eichler for his book Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance; and Emily Monosson for her book Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic. This year, the Book Awards Dinner was held in person in Washington, D.C. in December 2024, where the three scholars discussed the impetus behind their books and the mo...
2025-01-1329 min
The Ink Sink3.3: News: Spotify Riles AudiobooksSpotify’s audiobook service is here! But what does it mean
for independent authors? We dive into the publishing news. Plus, we celebrate two unsung women from history who finally get their due!
Warning: We swear in this episode. Leigh Bardugo’s protagonist has to put up with some bulls***.
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A breakdown of high fantasy and low fantasy from
Book Riot: https://bookriot.com/high-fantasy-vs-low-fantasy/
Spotify boosts popular audiobooks: https://www.publishersweekly.com...
2024-04-0336 min
The Epicurean Vagabonds present Aesthetic ArrestAesthetic Arrest Podcast: Rafael Silveira, North Woods, Hannah Crafts & Lidia Bastianich!Plus Margaret Bonds, Julia Lee, Saint Omer & La Llorona!This Week’s Apéritif: Wildstar’s Wasabi Bloody Mary (secret recipe)Reading: North Woods by Daniel Mason & The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts (edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) and The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman's Narrative by Gregg Hecimovich (foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr...
2024-01-1956 min
Hopeton Hay PodcastsHannah Crafts: The First Black Woman To Write a NovelDiverse Voices Book Review contributor Amanda Moore interviewed Dr. Gregg Hecimovich, a Hutchins Family Fellow at Harvard University and professor of English at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. His new book, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HANNAH CRAFTS: The True Story of the Bondwoman's Narrative, explores how Hannah Crafts escaped enslavement, and became a gifted writer who wrote about the inconceivable reality of her life and others who were victims of an oppressive society in the American South years before the Civil War. Considered to be the first Black woman to compose a novel, Hannah Crafts wrote a s...
2023-12-1839 min
Discovery & InspirationGregg Hecimovich, “The Zealy Daguerreotypes: Confronting Images of Enslavement”In March 1850, five men and two women were photographed in the studio of South Carolina artist Joseph Zealy. When these daguerreotypes were uncovered in 1976, they quickly became some of the best-known pre-Civil War images of enslaved African Americans. Gregg Hecimovich (NHC Fellow, 2015–16; 2022–23) is asking important questions about why these images were captured, how they were lost for so long, and what they might tell us about legacies of white supremacy and enslavement in the United States.
2023-11-0321 min
The HabitGregg Hecimovich solved a literary mystery.In 2001, Henry Louis Gates announced the discovery of an unpublished novel called The Bondswoman’s Narrative, written in the 1850s by an enslaved woman named Hannah Crafts. If Gates had the authorship right, it would be the oldest known novel by an African-American woman. But many people doubted the book’s authorship. In 2013, however, Gregg Hecimovich produced evidence that The Bondswoman’s Narrative was indeed written by a black woman in the1850s. Hannah Crafts, he demonstrated, was the pen name of Hannah Bonds, who escaped from slavery in North Carolina. Dr. Hecimovich’s new book is The Life and Time...
2023-10-1644 min