Lisa Lucas
Nearly a year into her tenure, the executive director of the National Book Foundation reflects on her first award season and the future of reading
You’re both the first woman and the first black person to run the National Book Foundation. How does it feel to be twice a first? You know, it’s sad. There shouldn’t be so many firsts still in the year 2017. You’d think it would feel like some kind of triumph, and it does—obviously it says something about your own personal career. But you
