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Bahamas Writers’ Summer Institute

14 July 2009

You know, it’s about time I blogged about this topic. It’s been coming for a good long while, and now we’re in its third and middle week, and it seems to be going really really well.
What is it? you ask. Well, I could give you a long answer, but I’ll spare you that. Here’s the [...]

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R.I.P. Harold Pinter

25 December 2008

 
How Pinteresque, to die on Christmas Eve.
LONDON (AP) — Harold Pinter, praised as the most influential British playwright of his generation and a longtime voice of political protest, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 78.
Pinter, whose distinctive contribution to the stage was recognized with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, [...]

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Announcing tongues of the ocean

3 December 2008

 
tongues of the ocean is an online literary journal of Bahamian, Caribbean and related poetry. We’re an affiliate of the Bahamas International Literary Festival, but BILF isn’t responsible for what we decide to do (so don’t blame them!). We publish three times a year - in February, June, and October. We reserve the right to be picky [...]

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Some of my best friends

6 October 2008

are Swedish.
And one of them read my last post, and commented.  Actually, she did so over on Facebook, where my blog posts are imported as notes, but I liked what she said enough to bring it back over here.
Her point is that Engdahl didn’t mean cultural hegemony as much as he meant linguistic hegemony.  Now [...]

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Nobel judge: U.S. too ignorant to compete

30 September 2008

Now I’m not the biggest fan of the USA.  
Let’s put it another way:  I’m not a blind fan of the USA, and a lot of what the US thinks is great about itself I would question.
But never would I question the greatness of that nation.  
The arrogance of this Swede, though, is staggering.  
U.S. [...]

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J. K. Rowling’s Speech at Harvard Commencement

12 August 2008

On the benefits of failure and imagination.
On failure:
personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, [...]

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Signifyin’ Guyana speaks out on CARIFESTA

10 August 2008

Signifyin’ Guyana: Finally!
Bahamian blogger, Lynn Sweeting (womanish words) says she’ll be participating in the upcoming festival of arts (Carifesta) in Guyana. Finally, somebody else (besides Ruel) who can lay claims to artistic talent has voiced a public commitment to doing something (ARTS RELATED!) for Carifesta. Okay, two down many to go.
Yes, so it’s [...]

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ARC Review #1 – Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, (Lalami)

4 August 2008

Country:  Morocco, North Africa
Author:  Laila Lalami
Review:  This is a novel/collection of related short stories, and in this way reminds me of Naipaul’s Miguel Street. The stories are about four Moroccans who take the risk of crossing the narrow straits between Morocco and Spain, and are separated into two main sections: “Before” and “After”. [...]

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My Africa Reading List

26 July 2008

If I take part, that is.
What’s under my belt is pretty male and middle-century, and so I thought I’d branch out with some female voices and writing from more recent times

Adichie (Nigeria) - Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun
Emecheta (Nigeria) – The Joys of Motherhood
Ngugi (Kenya) – Wizard of the Crow
Baingana (Uganda) – Tropical Fish: Tales [...]

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Coming Late to the Party

23 July 2008

And not knowing whether I will take part because I can barely keep up, but:
There’s a reading challenge going on this year that I’d like to alert people to, just in case.
It’s the Africa Reading Challenge:
Participants commit to read – in the course of 2008 – six books that either were written by African writers, [...]

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