Chinelo Okparanta: Interview
by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn “Some of my strongest memories of place today are still my memories of Nigeria. In my mind I can still see the road to my primary school, and I can tell you the placement of the headmistress’s office, and the patch of dusty earth where we stood for morning assemblies, or…
Best Books of 2013
After 365 days of nonstop reading, writer and editor Clarence Reynolds has whittled his best books down to an exquisite nine titles. Let us know if you think he’s forgotten a book or two.
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‘Claire of the Sea Light’ by Edwidge Danticat By Laura Collins-Hughes Boston Globe
Brooklyn Book Festival 2012
Under a gorgeous sky, the 2012 Brooklyn Book Festival presented it’s largest line up of authors, literati, and vendors. From the BKBF website: The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in New York City,
Edwidge Danticat’s “Create Dangerously” | JosephRoss.net
Create Dangerously by Joseph Ross Edwidge Danticat, is among the best fiction and non-fiction writers of English these days. Her novels about life in Haiti Krik Krak; Breath, Eyes, Memory; and The Farming of Bones create vivid stories
Caribbean Women Writers by Marcia Douglas: Essay
Originally appeared in Mosaic #9, June 2000 In the late 1980s, upon learning about a forthcoming conference profiling the work of Caribbean women writers, Jamaica Kincaid asked, “Are there many of us?” The conference was the 1988 First International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers
