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Dreams of Their Fathers : Barack Obama and James Baldwin.
I was wrong. The NYT wasn’t totally lame this Sunday. Shelly found an interesting article on short vs long fiction.
To make the leap from journalism to novel writing, Linda Villarosa had to change the way she thinks.
Farewell, Olson’s Books . Indies are dropping left and right. Sigh.
The Saartjie Project is a black woman’s artists collaborative, specializing in work around the black female body. Cocoa interviews Jessica Solomon, the founder of this groundbreaking project.
Well, The Jewel of Medina is the topic that never seems to run out of blogable issues. Galleycat ponders the origins of the artwork on the cover... The painter is German, for whatever that’s worth.I was going to leave it at that, but I just have to say that with there being s...
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Introducing Kendrick Daye of Art NouveauFrom: tayarijones.com
Post Date: 2008-09-05 20:08:46
As you can probably tell, I spend a lot of time on the internet and one of my favorite destinations is Art Nouveau . It’s an on-line magazine with all the-- I don’t know what to call it-- all the-- well, the--- umph? the funk?-- of my favorite print magazines. The Sept/Oct issue, "Art is Everywhere" has just posted and features interviews with Jasmine Guy about her directorial debut with "For Colored Girls..", new poems by Academy of American Poets prize winner Kyla Marshell, a...
more Art Is EverywhereFrom: tayarijones.com
Post Date: 2008-09-05 20:05:06
Tayari Jones : Kendrick, I just took a look at Issue 5. What a fantastic accomplishment. I looks great and there’s a lot of substance to go with the eye-popping layout. Tell me, how did you start Art Nouveau and what motivated you? How did you pull it off? Did you get a grant or something?
Kendrick Daye : First off, Thanks for the compliments. We really worked extremely hard to make this the best issue we could. We wanted the layout and photos and graphics to be out there b...
more Revisiting HistoryFrom: tayarijones.com
Post Date: 2008-09-03 19:48:34
If you are wondering about all the Tayari juvenilia showing up on the blog, it’s because my dad sent me a box of all the detritus of my youth.
When I was in Georgia last month speaking to the students at Georgia College and State University about Leaving Atlanta, several people asked me about the "Student of The Month" prize that my characters seem to be so fixated on. I sadly told the audience that I never won the award and I have yet to get over it. Imagine how surprised I was to...
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