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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.
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Chibundu Onuzo Speaks | Brittle Paper
Interesting stuff keeps coming out of the Nigerian literary scene, the most recent of which is the publication of Chibundu Onuzu’s Spider King’s Daughter by prestigious British publishing house, Faber and Faber.
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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
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Helon Habila, Publisher? | Sunday Trust
Commonwealth and Caine Prize winning writer, Helon Habila has been in Nigeria
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Rebecca Walker: Black is Cool | Lambda Literary
Rebecca Walker: Black is Cool by L. Michael Gipson Lambda Literary “…YOU CAN NO MORE SEPARATE COOL FROM BLACKNESS THAN YOU CAN SEPARATE HULA FROM HAWAIIANS, OR YOGA FROM INDIANS, OR FRENCH CUISINE FROM THE FRENCH.”
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Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye – NYTimes.com
Americans have a curiously limited vision of France. We may be wild about Chanel sunglasses, Vuitton handbags, Champagne or Paris in the spring, but when it comes to the kinds of contemporary French culture
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The Life and Legacy of Black Queer Literature
August 8, 2012 – I attended the panel “Live to Tell: The Life and Legacy of Black Queer Literature,” which was presented by the Black Gay & Lesbian Archive Program Series at the Schomburg Center for Research into Black Culture.
