*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. "American Dirt," a novel by Jeanine Cummins Two more bookstore events have been canceled for Jeanine Cummins, who was to appear ...

On Thursday, May 15 at 7pm, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeanine Cummins of American Dirt visits The Music Hall as part of the Writers on a New England Stage series to discuss her new book, ...

Three of seven bookstores scheduled to host "American Dirt" author Jeanine Cummins this week have canceled their events — two under the direction of the novel's publisher — following an onslaught of ...

In the novel “Speak to Me of Home,” three generations of women in one family grapple with their identities. By Esmeralda Santiago Five years later, she has a new novel, “Speak to Me of Home,” which ...

If you haven’t been on Twitter this week, there’s a chance you’re missing some hilarious tweets from people calling out the atrocity that is American Dirt. The novel perpetuates stereotypes about ...

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Jeanine Cummins may finally be laughing. Or at least slightly less grumpy, as she counts all her money. You don’t remember Jeanine Cummins? For a little while, she was one of those heartwarming ...

Assaults on free expression from the right, particularly in the form of campaigns to remove school library books on complaints from offended parents, have escalated in the last few years and have been ...

This week was supposed to be an exciting one for author Jeanine Cummins. After months of hype, her novel, "American Dirt," had finally been published. It got high praise from writers including Sandra ...

Imagine spending years writing your fourth novel, resulting in a life-changing megabucks bidding war and millions of copies sold. Big-name writers like Stephen King fall in love with it. Oprah Winfrey ...

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