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What to Read this Winter

Aspen Words welcomes authors who have reached the top of the best-seller list, been celebrated with the highest literary accolades, and had books adapted into Hollywood hits. Here are the latest titles to add to your reading list.

BY Institute Staff

1 week ago
Literature

“Educated” with Tara Westover

Tara Westover's childhood was distinct. Raised by survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she encountered extreme adversity.

BY Aspen Ideas to Go

Podcast

11.18.2019
Literature

Aspen Words Literary Prize

Aspen Words today announced the longlist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize (AWLP), an annual award for a work of fiction that addresses a vital contemporary issue.

BY Aspen Words

Blog Post

11.14.2019
Literature

A Memoir of Secrets Better Kept

This week, Adrienne Brodeur’s memoir WILD GAME: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me was released to no shortage of rave reviews. It’s a rare bi

BY David K. Gibson

Blog Post

10.18.2019
Literature

What We’re Reading: The Water Dancer

Ta-Nehisi Coates' upcoming first novel is a piece of fiction set in the world of the Underground Railroad.

BY David K. Gibson

Blog Post

10.03.2019
Literature

Novel Use

Panelists used An American Marriage to talk about inequality in the US justice system, why the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and how criminal-justice reform can help.

BY Institute Staff

10.01.2019
Literature

Mother of Invention

Chang, Brooklyn’s first female poet laureate and a professor at Sarah Lawrence College, spoke about the creative process during a taping of the First Draft podcast hosted by Mitzi Rapkin.

BY Institute Staff

10.01.2019
Literature

"I Had to Confront My Past Head On"

Aspen Words Executive Director Adrienne Brodeur’s new memoir, Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me, wrestles with Brodeur’s complex familial relationships.

BY Institute Staff

10.01.2019
Literature

Conversation with Tara Westover

Aspen Institute President and CEO Dan Porterfield in conversation with Tara Westover, author of Educated.

BY Daniel R. Porterfield

Video

06.26.2019
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