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Category: Writers
Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize-Winning Novelist of South Africa, Passes Away at 90
Full Body of Work: From Wikipedia Novels The Lying Days (1953) A World of Strangers (1958) Occasion for Loving (1963) The Late Bourgeois World (1966) A Guest of Honour (1970) The Conservationist (1974) – joint winner of the Booker prize in 1974 Burger's Daughter (1979) July's People (1981) A Sport of Nature (1987) My Son's Story (1990) None to Accompany Me (1994) The House Gun (1998) The Pickup (2001) … Continue reading Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize-Winning Novelist of South Africa, Passes Away at 90
Flannery O’Connor’s Only Two Known Recordings
From the Criterion Collection disc Wise Blood: Taped at the Dorothy Lamar Blount Lecture Series at Wesleyan College in 1960: (videos courtesy of http://www.BrainPickings.Org, with attached article by Maria Popova) While I am overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of inventions raging for slices of our finite attention, a carnival of art and creativity my generation only knows as contemporary … Continue reading Flannery O’Connor’s Only Two Known Recordings
Marion Ettlinger’s Author Photos: Black Writers Shot by Famed Literary Photographer
About Marion Ettlinger: Marion Ettlinger graduated from the High School of Music and Art and The Cooper Union in New York City. She has been photographing writers since 1983. Her book Author Photo, Portraits: 1983-2002, containing more than 200 black-and-white portraits shot exclusively in natural light, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2003 (bio courtesy of Marion Ettlinger.com). … Continue reading Marion Ettlinger’s Author Photos: Black Writers Shot by Famed Literary Photographer
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Maya Angelou, Lyrical Witness of the Jim Crow South, Dies at 86. (photo by Chester Higgins, Jr., for The New York Times) Have negression waiting in your inbox: Subscribe Today. Twitter | Pinterest | Kalisha.com
Sam Greenlee Has Passed
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Lucky Me (Or, On a Good Day)
I promised myself I would 'blog' here every single week. I would create a post, a literary non-fiction essay I like to call them, since 'post' sounds so bite-sized, and I am a Type-A overachiever who has to do everything notably. Of course, as usual, I have topics and words crashing my head in relation … Continue reading Lucky Me (Or, On a Good Day)
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