He is a staff writer at The Atlantic and has been published in multiple literary magazines. This is Smith’s debut nonfiction work, though he released “Counting Descent,” a nationally acclaimed poetry collection, in 2017. The book also made top 10 lists in The New York Times, TIME magazine and New York Public Library in 2021. 1 New York Times bestseller, a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and a Stowe Prize recipient. “The programming will be related to themes of the legacy of slavery, American identity and the role of memory and history in our lives,” the One Book Instagram announcement read. Smith’s novel focuses on landmarks and monuments around the country to examine how slavery has shaped large parts of United States history, from holidays, like Juneteenth, to major locales, like Manhattan. One Book One Northwestern announced Clint Smith’s “How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America” as its 2022-23 academic year selection Monday.
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