For more information
about my book
- Cross-X -
please visit
the official website.
(But if you want to know more about me, feel free to stick around and read my blog.)
A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year
One of Kansas City Star's 100 Noteworthy Books of the Year
Winner of the William Rockhill Nelson Award for Nonfiction
Winner of the Harry Chapin Media Award
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Forget the nerdy reputation that debate has. Instead think of a scenario as exciting as a sports game with high stakes like triumphing over racism. bad politics and abject poverty... An important, thoughtful and provocative look at race and class in America.
- The Boston Globe
Joe Miller's enthusiasm is infectious and the plot creates the suspense of a good courtroom thriller.
- Entertainment Weekly
The minute I finished Joe Miller's Cross-X, I held the book out in front of me -- amazed, rapturous, and hopeful... Miller's mesmerizing, vivid accounts of the debates will leave you crouched in your seat, holding your breath... An incredibly powerful, daringly hopeful book.
- Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Irresistible... Miller begins breezily but is soon deeply invested in the Central squad's mission to not only master the debate game on its own terms but revolutionize it with flashes of poetry and hip-hop wordplay... If all these kids could run things, Miller implies, imagine what could get done.
- Elle
4 comments:
yo people have been walking up to me going are you "Geoffery Stone?" and I'm like yes and they say "the one from the book cross-x?" and I say yeah... and then they're like "OMG!!! I can't believe it!!! rap for me...wow did that stuff really happen? you're amazing... tell all about te squad...is there exciting stuff that happened that wasn't in the book?" so I think I might write Cross-X 1.5 version to catch them up on some things that happened betweeen the time that you were sorting out the book and things that you didn't record lol.
this is totally central high schoolers in elementary school
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Joe-- I have been neglecting to read your blog lately because this falsely-dated post keeps my rss newsreader from showing any new posts as unread. Not that I have any helpful suggestions.
Joe, you are undoubtedly on a very personal journey right now. I am sure it has much to do with some of the big events surrounding your life at this time.
I believe that all of these dreams and reflections around the holidays, of your family and wonderful times in the past, are ways of connecting with those whom you have loved, and loved you.
Very poignant, warm recall of your grandmother...I laughed at the Efferdent story, and wept as I recalled my own memories of those who gave me comfort at the most lonely times in my life. It is those small, seemingly fleeting moments that leave us with the strongest recall...tastes, smells,warm sun and light breezes.
We are all humbled from time to time, and that is when we are in the midst of one of those big growing spurts along our journey.
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