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ANGELA FLOURNOY is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of Southern California. She has taught writing at the University of Iowa and Trinity Washington University, and worked for the Washington, D.C. Public Library. Her debut novel THE TURNER HOUSE will be released by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in April 2015. ...more

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	The Turner House 3.64 avg rating — 17,618 ratings — published 2015 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes, Angela Flournoy (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.23 avg rating — 3,435 ratings — published 1930	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art by Jonathan Santlofer (Editor), Viet Thanh Nguyen (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Julia Alvarez (Goodreads Author) 3.62 avg rating — 461 ratings — published 2018 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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New Year, New Anthem?

On the first of the year I wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Times about Australian "acknowledgement of country," and why the United States needs new rituals. Read it here.

Also, back in August I wrote about Kanye West and his interest in blurring the lines between art and commerce for The Nation.

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's first book, a collection of speculative short stories titled Friday Black, made waves in the literary scene when it...

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“Humans haunt more houses than ghosts do.”
― Angela Flournoy, The Turner House

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“The things we do in the name of protecting others are so often attempts to spare some part of ourselves.”
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“Here is the truth about self-discovery: it is never without cost.”
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