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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…

    June 1, 2013
    Elders, Interviews
    9 minutes
  • 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…

    April 9, 2013
    Elders, Interviews
    11 minutes
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on her new novel | Telegraph UK

    The Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new book, Americanah, is a story of romance, race and the politics of hair

    April 8, 2013
    Blog
    1 minute
  • Sugar in the Blood by Andrea Stuart | NYT

    On a trip to Paris, I recently had the same shocked realization that Andrea Stuart describes in her astounding new book, “Sugar in the Blood.”

    April 3, 2013
    Blog
    1 minute
  • Mosaic #29 Lesson Plan

    Lorna Goodison’s By Love Possessed is a collection of short stories that explore Jamaican life. These lesson plans can be used to engage younger readers across skills levels,

    March 20, 2013
    Blog, Uncategorized
    1 minute
  • Bernice L. McFadden & Courttia Newland

    February 20, 2013 – In celebration of Black History Month, I (wearing my Mosaic Literary Magazine publisher hat)

    February 23, 2013
    Around Town
    1 minute
  • 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…

    February 16, 2013
    Issues
    1 minute
  • 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…

    February 16, 2013
    Reviews
    10 minutes
  • Ayana Mathis: Interview

    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

    February 15, 2013
    Interviews
    1 minute
  • 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.

    February 15, 2013
    Blog
    1 minute
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