Do you ever wonder how you’ll be remembered? I’m one step closer to forty (woo hoo! can’t wait to be officially middle-aged) and yet fell out laughing when my aunt sent me this birthday email: It does not seem like such a long time ago that you were born…I remember you as . . . . . . Read More
Okay, so there I was in bed, pondering a possible new story. No plot yet but ya know...pondering. The two main characters are a Korean-American soldier returning home from Iraq or wherever to his wife who is African-American. Yeah, i know... another interracial story. Okay, some backstory on why al. . . Read More
It’s been that kind of month. Today there’s rain, I can feel a migraine lingering around the edges of my eyes, and I turned two sets of papers back only to collect two more sets of midterm exams. In the midst of all this grading, I’ve also been working on revisions for my next . . . . . . Read More
Annette L. Murrell (a.k.a. Dr Diva) is a jazz singer and writer. She has produced and released two recordings, My Shining Hour and Annette Murrell: Live at the Zoo Bar! She has also published essays and poetry in a number of journals; in addition, she published her own chapbook, I Wanna Be a Bad . . . . Read More
Cyrus Cassells is the author of four books of poetry, including More Than Peace and Cypresses; Beautiful Signor, winner of the Lambda Literary Award; and Soul Make a Path through Shouting, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and received the William Carlos Williams Award. His The Mud Actor .. . . Read More
I didn’t sneeze once while I was out today and it was a glorious afternoon for a book festival. We had a great conversation about historical fiction, and it was a real pleasure meeting Judy Blundell, Nick Bertozzi, Victoria Sanders and TR (Tanya) Simon. There were lots of other authors on . . . . . . Read More
The Natural Mystics, by historian and biographer Colin Grant ( W.W. Norton, 2011), is a delightful, insightful, easy read. With his extensive notation, aided by his research team, he recollects the post-slavery history of Jamaica, showing how it is the backdrop to the coming in of Rasta. Throug. . . Read More
Need some help making sense of The Help? Then stop by Amy Reads and join her exploration of the REAL conditions of black maids working in white households. Amy and Amanda are using the recommended reading list prepared by the Association of Black Women Historians to address these concerns: 1. . . .. . . Read More
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