Tayari's Blog: Pre-Bliss Links

Posted by TayariJones on November 26, 2008 10:11 AM
Filed under Travels & Rambles


Ododo Orginal Barette!
Originally uploaded by kleopatrjones
Since this is my birthday week, I am spending today in the spa. (I love myself a scrub-and-a-rub.) But while I am all blissed out, here's a little reading material.

  • Typepad introduces a journlaist bailout program for free-lancers who are feeling the crunch.
  • Speaking of the crunch, Houghton Mifflin is putting a freeze on accepting new projects. Despite HM's insistence that it's not such a big deal, people are freaking out, and rightfully so.
  • The Bad Sex Awards are announced. Updike gets a lifetime acheivement citation.
  • Me, buzzing up Shirley Chisolm on The Daily Beast.
  • More Toni Morrison deliciousness. With audio links!
  • As always, Erika's got the good stuff, including a link for a $10,000 fellowship for an emerging writer living in Queens.
  • And THANK YOU Ododo Originals who sent me the lovely beaded barette I am wearing on the photo to your right. On a cold dreary NY night, it was fun to have a little sun in my hair!
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    Comment #1, by Woody Lewis [TypeKey Profile Page]

    Brava for your recognition of Shirley Chisholm. My late father ran successfully for the first of his 5 terms in the New York State Assembly on the same ticket as Shirley when she ran for President in '72, and for Congress as well. She was a friend of the family, part of that Barbadian-American community that Paule Marshall writes about in Brown Girl, Brownstones. Shirley was ahead of her time, and it's too bad she's not around to celebrate Barack, but I know she's happy about it, just like my father!

    November 30, 2008 03:10 AM

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