Friday Favorites: Feb. 13
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Remembering that this is Black History Month I am reaching back to a Tonya Bolden, a participant of the Westchester Library System’s 11th annual African American Writers & Readers Literary Tea kicking off a celebration ofAfrican American history, literature, and culture throughout Westchester’s 38 public libraries.
Bolden, a celebrated children’s and young adult writer, tells us she is writing a book about the New Deal. It’s perfect timing and she says she will wrap in some perspective about our current economic condition.
But what is she reading right now and what is a favorite of hers? That’s what I want to know.
Right now, she writes in an e-mail, “I am not doing any pleasure reading. It’s all work-related.”
She says: “Paul Krugman’s “The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008” and Kevin Phillip’s “Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism” are on the top of the pile vis-à-vis my book for teens on the New Deal. This book will include an Author’s Note on the economic upheaval that hit while I was working on it.
“One of my all-time favorite books is C.S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters” for its guiding lights and insights on the faith walk.”
Bolden wrote “MLK: Journey of a King” for which she was awarded the 2008 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and won Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children.
Here is a photograph of Bolden (on the left) signing books for fans at the WLS Tea. (photo courtesy of WLS and Co-Communications, Inc.)
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