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Margo Jefferson wins 2023 Rathbones Folio prize

The writer and critic’s memoir, Constructing a Nervous System, was described as ‘astounding and rhapsodic’ by judges

The Guardian - UK

NoViolet Bulawayo and Margo Jefferson join ‘exciting’ Rathbones Folio prize shortlist

The newly formatted prize will, for the first time, name winners in fiction, nonfiction and poetry and the shortlist includes writers from across the world

The Guardian - UK

Commentary: Anthony Bourdain’s death has us asking the wrong questions about suicide

A new unauthorized biography has many people talking again about the suicide of Anthony Bourdain in June 2018. As is often the case with people who die by suicide, much of the chatter includes questions such as: How did they do it? Who was the last person they talked to?…

Los Angeles Times

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Gordon Burn prize shortlist announced: jazz icons, true crime and a rogue psychotherapist

Preti Taneja, David Whitehouse, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Margo Jefferson and Lea Ypi are shortlisted for the prize rewarding ‘bold and innovative’ books

The Guardian - UK

Margo Jefferson feels ghosts around her. The Chicago-born writer of ‘Negroland’ spends a day with us visiting some of them.

CHICAGO — Margo Jefferson, who has worked a half-century as one of the more formidable and composed critics of American culture, watched the city unwind from the back seat of an SUV. We moved slowly through traffic, maneuvering from the Loop to Wicker Park. She doesn’t get back here often…

Chicago Tribune

Constructing a Nervous System review – a deeply personal account of black female identity

Margo Jefferson’s follow-up to her acclaimed Negroland is another intimate and intelligent memoir that asks searching questions about her heritage and a privileged US society

The Guardian - UK

Review: 'Constructing a Nervous System,' by Margo Jefferson

NONFICTION: In her second memoir, Margo Jefferson comes close — but not close enough — to her own story.

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Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga among this year’s Windham-Campbell prize winners

Dangarembga, American writer Margo Jefferson and British playwright Winsome Pinnock are among eight recipients of the $165,000 grants, as the award marks its 10th anniversary

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