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Africaville
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Africville (HarperCollins Poche, 279)
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Africville: Jeffrey Colvin, la nouvelle voix de la littérature afro-américaine (HarperCollins)
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"Outstanding collection of poetry. I particularly liked the author’s note at the beginning, where she discusses afrofrontierism and afropioneerism. As a black person from
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"Marcy Dermansky remains one of my favorite writers. What I love most is Alllison, the protagonist, in the aftermath of a violent attack, dealing with a traumatic brain injury and how we see the world through her eyes and her mind. I held my breath as"
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Below is a link to a newly published interview with Bloomsday Literary. Also, I interviewed the Canadian novelist Shyam Selvadurai for the recent Spring/Summer issue of Epiphany. https://www.bloomsdayliterary.com/pod... https://epiphanyzine.com/buy/epiphany... |
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My sophomore year of college, I received a fellowship to travel to Ghana and conduct research for a novel. At the time I had only the faintest idea of what I wanted to write about—mothers and daughters, inheritance, loss. I landed at Kotoka Airport and spent the rest of the summer trying to convince myself that all the aimless wandering I was doing was “research,” but really I felt lost and frustrated by my inability to figure out what I really wanted to say, what the story actually was. With hindsight it’s clear to me that I had gone to Ghana to get in touch with a sense of myself that had
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"Tayari Jones has been awarded a 2021 Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Established in 1925 by former United States Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, in memory of seventeen-year-old John Simon Guggenheim, the elder of ..."
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"This novel follows a Vietnamese family that flees to the United States in 1979 over the next 26 years. I was captivated. The writing is absolutely gorgeous. The structure is such that we never get to spend enough time with Huong, Tuan, and Binh/Ben. "
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