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Tayari Jones: Interview
With the release of her third novel, Tayari Jones continues her ascendency up the literary ladder. Silver Sparrow “chronicles the not-quite-parallel lives of Dana Lynn Yarboro and Bunny Chaurisse Witherspoon in 1980s Atlanta. Both girls-born four months apart-are the daughters of James Witherspoon, a secret bigamist, but only Dana and her mother, Gwen, are aware…
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Marlon James: Interview
In 2007, before the release of the Man Booker Prize winning A Brief History of Seven Killings and the critically received The Book of Night Women, Marlon James sat with writer Felicia Pride to discuss John Crow’s Devil and literary success. Marlon James by Felicia Pride With the release of his debut novel, John Crow’s Devil, Marlon…
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Mosaic 17
02/2007 The Healing World of Lucille Clifton With Hurricane Katrina still heavy on her heart, poet Lucille Clifton sat down with Jacqueline Jones LaMon to discuss life, death, and poetry. Marlon James First-time novelist Marlon James chats with Felicia Pride about his novel, John Crow’s Devil, and the influence Jamaica has had on his work. Let…
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Mosaic 16
12/2006 Thomas Sayers Ellis A poet, educator, and self-proclaimed “genuine negro hero” to the heart, Thomas Sayers Ellis did the QandA thing with Penny Dickerson. Total Life Is What We Want Poet Sharan Strange reflects on the history and lasting influence of the Dark Room Collective. Linton Kwesi Johnson Nancy Rawlinson finds the legendary Jamaican dub…
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Thomas Sayers Ellis: Interview
by Penny Dickerson Poet, essayist, and editor, Thomas Sayers Ellis is a literary threat. Harvard educated and a Brown University graduated; noted writer Elizabeth Alexander described him as, “One of our geniuses.”
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Mosaic 15
06/2005 The Wonderful World of Tony Medina Poet and educator Dr. Tony Medina talks with Cave Canem fellow Jacqueline Johnson about the current state of poetry. Original Notes of A Native Son James Baldwin’s friend and editor Sol Stein talks of their early days at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, NY. E. Poet,…
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Mosaic 13
04/2002 Profile Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon Nelly Rosario The Black Arts Movement Reviews Break Any Woman Down by Dana Bryant Envy of the World: On Being a Black Man in America by Ellis Cose Ghost of a Flea by James Sallis Glow in the Dark by Lisa Teasley Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black…
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Criminal Minded: Chester Himes
This article was originally reprint in Mosaic #11, September 2001 Criminal Minded Before Walter Mosley, Colson Whitehead or Valerie Wilson Wesley there was Chester Himes. His novels have been signatures of Black crime noir novels. by Michael Marsh Himes’s approach to his first vocation, and his later writing, was simple and direct. In November 1928,…
