Tayari's Blog: Before Coffee Links

Posted by TayariJones on October 5, 2008 08:16 AM
Filed under Travels & Rambles

  • Joy is out of town, so I have to read the NYT for myself. Well, I kind of scanned it. The book section is pretty dry this week. There's the sad news that neither John Updike, Philip Roth, Don DeLillo or Joyce Carol Oates will be getting the Nobel Prize. Also, a new book on the Thomas Jefferson/Sally Hemmings relationship. And by the way, OJ is going to jail. (The OJ story wasn't in the book section, but it is sort of in the same category of *yawn.*)
  • The Anisfield-Wolf Awards is taking submissions. I have been aware of the declining showing of African-Americans in American literary awards scene, but even I was surprized that the Anisfield-Wolf Awards, nicknamed "The Black Pulitzer" did not honor a single African-American author for new work this year.
  • In Manhattan, Redbone Press is hosting "Reclamation: The Value of Black Gay Writing" to celebrate the reissue of Brother to Brother and In The Life. (Event is on Tuesday October 14. More details here.)
  • Third Coast is holding a contest for both fiction and poetry. Winner gets a thousand bucks!
  • Jezebel is thinking about starting a book club. They are looking for suggestions about what to read.
  • File this under Dudes Talking to Dudes About Dudes. Officially the question is whether you need an agent based in NY.

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