Bernice L. McFadden & Courttia Newland
February 20, 2013 – In celebration of Black History Month, I (wearing my Mosaic Literary Magazine publisher hat)
Mosaic 28
Issue 28 Fall 2012 Interviews Caryl Phillips by Clarence V. Reynolds Camille T. Dungy by L’Oréal Snell Andrea Levy by Tracey L. Walters Excerpts Color Me English: Thoughts About Migrations and Belonging Before and After 9/11 by Caryl Phillips The Long Song by Andrea Levy Poems by Camille T. Dungy Maybe Tuesday Will Be My…
Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora: Review
Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora (The Surrealist Revolution) by Franklin Rosemont (Editor), Robin D.G. Kelley (Editor) University of Texas Press Review by D. Scot Miller “This is only a preliminary warning,” is how Etienne Lero opened his 1932 “Legitime Defense Manifesto” for the publication bearing the same name. And since…
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
Out of Nowhere by Maria Padian | NYTimes.com
A small town in Maine is flooded with Somali refugees looking for a better way of life. The soccer team gets a jolt of inspiration and outstanding play from its new, non-English-speaking players.
See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid | ChicagoTribune.com
See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid By Alan Cheuse How might a Hollywood movie pitchman capture the tone and pith of See Now Then, a new novel by the intense and lyrical novelist Jamaica Kincaid about the disintegration of a modern marriage?
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
Charles Stephens & Steven G. Fullwood: Lambda Literary
Charles Stephens & Steven G. Fullwood: A Conversation on Joseph Beam and ‘In the Life’ Click here to read this interview in its entirety on http://www.lambdaliterary.org Our forthcoming anthology Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam’s Call (Vintage Entity Press, 2013) was born out of a series of conversations, panel discussions, debates,
Best Books of 2012
BEST BOOKS OF 2012 by Clarence V. Reynolds Freelance editor Clarence V. Reynolds reads thousands of books every year. Mosaic Literary Magazine asked him to whittle that list down to the best of the year. After much discussion here’s his list of nine stellar titles.
