Lisa Lucas is the first woman and African American to lead one of America’s key literary institutions,with a mandate to get more people to read – and writeLisa Lucas began her new job as the third executive director of the National Book Foundation, which presents the National Book Awards, and just this Monday. The Guardian caught up with Lucas. We talked about the 36-year-passe’s transition to the Foundation from her preceding position as publisher of the small but well-respected literary journal Guernica and,before that, with the Tribeca film festival, or about what her hopes are in her new role. Lucas has just become the first African American and first woman to hold her position with the 67-year-passe organization. A lot of us in the writing world know Guernica,and you were publisher there, but this new job must be different in some ways. How execute you see the transition?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com