Tayari's Blog: Southern Fried Links

Posted by TayariJones on August 16, 2008 07:48 PM
Filed under Travels & Rambles

I've been ripping and running around Atlanta and I also took a quick trip to Hilton Head with Dear Old Dad. I'm low on new material to blog about, but I did find some good-looking links I wanted to share with you.

  • But first, thanks for all the responses to my plea for help writing my speech. Where were you all when I was a freshman? I could have used the advice!
  • I saw on facebook that Andrew Ervin has managed to get his hot little hands on the new Toni Morrison novel. It's called A MERCY. I am going to die if I don't get to read it. Natasha T. heard Ms. Morrison read from it at Harvard. She says it's fantastic and but refuses to recite it for me again.
  • A Mercy already has its own Wikipedia page.
  • You don't love Frida Kahlo like they love Frida Khalo.
  • The Lace Reader is the little self-published book that could. a $2M contract is nothing to play with. So why is the original publicist so pissed off? Bella Stander says being mad in public is not good for business.
  • How the other half learns. Reports from Iowa.
  • Abdel is all about Chris Abani.
  • Janice found out that she isn't the only literary celebrity who spent some time in a NYC youth home. She wasn't even the only one living in her room!
  • Waiting2Speak post a complicated and moving account of a chance meeting and a tragic misunderstanding.
  • Here's a sad story about the children James Brown didn't claim, and the children he did. It reminded me of my novel-in-progress.
  • Alex Chee has all the news you wish you didn't know about the new anti-Obama literature. For example, conservative millionaires are buying copies in bulk to make sure Obama Nation debuts at #1.
  • To take your mind off of the item above, let's kick back with some polar bear cuteness.

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    Comment #1, by Grant [TypeKey Profile Page]

    Go to bookfinder.com to find advance copies of Morrison's newest for sale...set you back looks like between 20 and 30 dollars.

    August 18, 2008 09:57 PM

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