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William Demby: Interview
William Demby, Author of Experimental Novels, Dies at 90 –NYT William Demby: A Writer’s Life by Steve Kemme Mosaic #20 October 2007 As novelist William Demby left the podium on the stage at the Cleveland Playhouse after addressing a nearly full auditorium, the audience showered him with an enthusiastic ovation. The outpouring of admiration was both…
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M.G. Vassanji: Interview
by Clarence Reynolds It comes as no surprise that when M.G. Vassanji’s book won a regional Commonwealth Writer’s Prize the honor was an auspicious beginning for the first-time novelist. In 1994, his novel The Book of Secrets received the inaugural Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada’s prestigious literary award, and further solidified Vassanji as an important literary…
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Ayana Mathis: Interview
by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn Ayana Mathis has an innocence about her that makes it hard for other writers to envy her success. Unlike other writers who list names of literary journals they’ve published in, Ayana quietly worked under the radar
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Emily Raboteau: Interview
Join us on Tuesdays, Jan 7, 14, 21, 28, Feb 4, 2020, 630-8pm, when One Book One Bronx starts an exploration of Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora by Emily Raboteau. This book club is free and open to the public. Click here to join
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William Melvin Kelley: Interview
by Steve Kemme An air of mystery clings to the writing career of William Melvin Kelley like a morning mist. In the 1960s, Kelley produced three novels and a book of short stories that established him as one of America’s most talented young fiction writers. With his first novel, A Different Drummer, published in 1962,…
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Caryl Phillips: Interview
by Clarence Reynolds Caryl Phillips appears to be a man of a composed and modest nature. He’s relaxed in his T-shirt and leather jacket; he also presents the aura of a seasoned traveler.
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Camille T. Dungy: Interview
Camille T. Dungy is the author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison; Suck on the Marrow, for which she received a 2011 American Book Award; and Smith Blue. She is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, and was a finalist for the PEN Center USA 2007 Literary Award.…
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Andrea Levy
Andrea Levy Interview with Tracey L. Walters As a child growing up in England what kind of literature did you read? Were you conscious of a Black British literary tradition? I didn’t really read literature as a child. I think I’m on record as saying that I did not read a work of fiction until…
