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Tayari Jones Wins Aspen Words Prize

On April 11, the Institute awarded its second annual Aspen Words Literary Prize, which is dedicated to fiction that has social impact, to Tayari Jones, the author of An American Marriage.

BY Institute Staff

Longform

06.05.2019
Literature

Summer's Bounty: 8 Must-Read Books

Whether you’re relaxing on a beach or on a mountain meadow this summer, these eight titles will enthrall the mind while your body kicks back. All were wr ...

BY Institute Staff

Longform

06.05.2019
Literature

Magic Streak

Colson Whitehead spoke to an Aspen Words audience about his life as a writer, the difference between fiction and nonfiction, and how he came up with the fantastical premise for his most recent book, The Underground Railroad, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

BY Institute Staff

Longform

06.05.2019
Literature

Truth and Reconciliation

This spring’s Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series explored the news industry, the Supreme Court, and the self.

BY Institute Staff

Longform

06.05.2019
Literature

Tayari Jones Tells the Truth

The 2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize Winner discussed how she brings a human face to the social issues most pressing in our time.

BY Sophia Rivera-Silverstein

Blog Post

05.01.2019
Literature

Tayari Jones Wins Aspen Words Literary Prize

The $35,000 prize honors a work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue.

BY Aspen Words

Blog Post

04.11.2019
Literature

Awakening Moral Imagination

Aspen Institute President and CEO Dan Porterfield delivered the following remarks at the announcement ceremony for the winner of the 2019 Aspen Words Liter ...

BY Daniel R. Porterfield

Of Interest

04.11.2019
Literature

Excerpt: Marcia Butler's New Novel

Pickle's Progress, from the former Aspen Words writer in residence, was released on April 9.

BY Marcia Butler

Blog Post

04.10.2019
Literature

Trump’s Close Relationship with Fox News

Carolyne Heldman interviews Jane Mayer, staff writer for The New Yorker, as part of an author series held by Aspen Words.

BY Aspen Ideas to Go

Podcast

04.03.2019
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