Bernice L. McFadden's Blog, page 22
September 14, 2010
Good news!!
Glorious and Boston Noire (edited by NY Times Bestselling Author, Dennis Lehane)are currently Akashic's top selling books!
Me and Dennis Lehane..
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Me and Dennis Lehane..
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September 8, 2010
September 3, 2010
Glorious September Links
Hey Ya'll!
I can't believe how quickly the summer is slipping away! Although with global warming I suspect the warm weather will follow us well into October or even November..
I want to send a BIG HUGS out to all of you who purchased a copy of Glorious and/or talked it up to friends and family. The book is doing quite well and I appreciate all of your help, kind words and generosity.
I told a friend the other day that there is a particular type of "magic" swirling around Glorious - an ancestral ...
I can't believe how quickly the summer is slipping away! Although with global warming I suspect the warm weather will follow us well into October or even November..
I want to send a BIG HUGS out to all of you who purchased a copy of Glorious and/or talked it up to friends and family. The book is doing quite well and I appreciate all of your help, kind words and generosity.
I told a friend the other day that there is a particular type of "magic" swirling around Glorious - an ancestral ...
September 1, 2010
August 21, 2010
New York Times Review of GLORIOUS ( 8/22/2010)
GLORIOUS
By Bernice L. McFadden.
239 pp. Akashic. Paper, $15.95
NYT
Young Easter Bartlett's life in Jim Crow-ruled Georgia, in 1910, is dominated by racism. After her sister is brutally raped by a group of white boys, her family crumbles and Easter flees her hometown of Waycross, only to witness more brutal and unpunished instances of white cruelty. A chance encounter leads the book-loving girl "up South" to Harlem, where the stimuli of city life coax forth her burgeoning artistic sensibility. ...
By Bernice L. McFadden.
239 pp. Akashic. Paper, $15.95
NYT
Young Easter Bartlett's life in Jim Crow-ruled Georgia, in 1910, is dominated by racism. After her sister is brutally raped by a group of white boys, her family crumbles and Easter flees her hometown of Waycross, only to witness more brutal and unpunished instances of white cruelty. A chance encounter leads the book-loving girl "up South" to Harlem, where the stimuli of city life coax forth her burgeoning artistic sensibility. ...
August 18, 2010
Women Writer Wednesday!
From left to right: Me..Carleen Brice..Donna Hill.. Stacey Patton and Tayari Jones...
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August 11, 2010
Wordless Wednesday
Me and author Cristina Garcia
(Photo courtesy of PreeJamaica...see more Calabash photos here.
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August 6, 2010
August 3, 2010
New Books......!!
I'm sure you've noticed that I have not been posting as much. Well, hazy-hot days do not make for intelligent and/or witty narratives..at least not in my world. LOL
Today I just wanted to let you in on some new titles that you simply MUST go out and purchase!
Where are you from?' is a question I always find hard to answer. 1971: an ad in Nursery World. 'Private foster parents required for a three-month-old baby' - me. The lucky applicants are a 57-year-old white woman and her daughter, who...
July 28, 2010
Wordless Wednesday
Sonia Sanchez, Terry McMillan and Me (Thanks to Shalema McGhee for this beautiful photo)
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