Tayari's Blog: Ready For My Close Up Links

Posted by TayariJones on July 29, 2009 09:14 AM
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  • NPR has posted a cool slide show of author photos by Marion Ettlinger, including this nice picture of me. Don't you think I look like a opera singer, circa 1922? (Other writers featured include my beloved Rigoberto Gonzalez and the ultra gorgeous Olympia Vernon.)
  • There is drama about crime fiction vs. literary fiction. This reminds me of the debate about "urban lit." Look at how much less intense the discussion is without the variable of race.
  • Listen to Natasha Trethewey read her poem, "Myth."
  • Images from the Harlem Book Fair.
  • E.Lynn Harris left one last book and it is slated for release.
  • Alain de Botton has a great TED Talk about the myth of "success." It's long, but worth a listen.
  • Keats home has been reopened, and Langston Hughes's home has been sold for about $17K.
  • The Stotomayor vote in haikus.
  • Did you know that Red Hen Press has an imprint only for lesbian writers?
  • Antoinette Brim on being a writer, teacher, mother, and poet.
  • Sarah, as always, has excellent links for those who are into crime fiction.
  • In the mood for verse? Rigoberto Gonzalez and Eduardo C. Corral.
  • Women poets, here is a first book prize for you!
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