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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,
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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.
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StayHigh 149
As a tike, I ran the streets of the South Bronx tagging “Rex 2” on park benches and school bathrooms –fear of electrocution kept me out of train yards. But StayHigh 149 (aka Wayne Roberts)
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Blackgirl Mansion Reading
October 26, 2012 – Earlier this year I wrote about a poetry event presented at the Brooklyn Museum, which brought together many of the poets who forged the open mic scene of the 90s. Optimistically, I wrote of the post-Brooklyn Moon generation “Young peeps are writing poetry and rhymes, creating new temples that will have equal…
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There Was a Country by Achebe | NYT
There Was a Country by Chinua Achebe by Adam Nossiter Rumors of Nigeria’s demise have been somewhat exaggerated. This turbulent and magnetic African megastate endures despite its intense regional, religious and
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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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Carl Hancock Rux at MLC2012
Join us on November 9 & 10, 2012, for The Mosaic Literary Conference. MLC2012 is a great opportunity for teachers, admins, and parents to learn about blending books and reading into the lives of teenagers.
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Nuruddin Farah | The Guardian
In a hotel beside a Norwegian fjord, encircled by snow-streaked mountains, the novelist and playwright Nuruddin Farah has his mind on warmer waters.”Are they pirates?” he says of the Somalis who hold ships hostage off the Horn of Africa, where he was born.
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Whats Wrong With Reading? | HuffPost
This is a teen-written article from our friends at Youth Communication, a nonprofit organization that helps marginalized youth develop their full potential through reading and writing. By Anthony Turner
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New Claude McKay Novel Discovered | NYTimes.com
A Columbia graduate student and his adviser have authenticated the student’s discovery of an unknown manuscript of a 1941 novel by Claude McKay, a leading Harlem Renaissance writer and author of the first novel by a black American to become a best seller.
