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Junot Diaz
2007-06-27 08:40:00
Oh. My. Goodness. One of my very favorite writers has a new novel coming out in September: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Juno t is a true original. Many of you will remember his highly successful short story collection Drown. Was Drown really published ten years ago? But I think this novel will be worth the wait. The story of the same title appeared in the New Yorker a few years
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Helen Oyeyemi
2007-06-25 06:23:00
Today I went to hear Helen Oyeyemi read from her new novel The Opposite House. As you can see on the left, it has a lovely cover of an upside down street. She told me that is a picture of Havana. Many of you might know that Oyeyemi wrote her first novel while still in high school--The Icarus Girl. Now she has written her second, having only finished college last year. To say that Miss
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Kenyon Review (summer issue)
2007-06-20 03:22:00
My story "The Clipping" is in the summer issue of The Kenyon Review . Pick one up at your local bookstore. Other folks in the issue are T.C. Boyle, Marvin Bell, and Gerald Duff.
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Stax Museum
2007-06-15 19:21:00
I recently returned from Memphis where I visited Stax Museum with one of my girlfriends visiting from NY. I'd never been to the museum but had heard that it was a massive building (40,000 sq. ft?) dedicated to the artists who made up the unique recording experience that lasted in Memphis from the early 1960s to the early 1970s. For those of you who don't know, Stax spawned some serious talents

Miracle in Rwanda
2007-05-30 21:21:00
One of my very best friends, Leslie Lewis Sword, has just finished a successful run in NYC performing in her critically acclaimed show, Mira cle in Rwanda . I blogged back in December 2005 about meeting Imaculee Ilibagiza at a conference in Arizona. Imaculee is a survivor of the Rwandan genocide. But this woman is more than just a survivor. She refused to let the senseless murder of her entire
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Chester Higgins, Jr.
2007-05-29 02:48:00
Today I am spending time reading the (wonderfully put together) website of photographer Chester Higgins , Jr. This is yet another one of those moments that I miss living on the East Coast. He was on exhibit earlier this year in Richmond, Virginia. Maybe the next time I get down to San Francisco, I will see the large photograph by him in the new Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD). Higgins'
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LibraryThing
2007-05-24 02:33:00
I haven't checked my Libra ryThing account in ages. So I was pleasantly surprised to check it and see that I had a new message. Do you have an account? At last check, someone with the username "eromsted" shares the most books with me. We share 78 books! I read this person's profile, and I really like the way s/he tags his books: "Wishlist" or "Read,unowned" or "owned." This is helpful.