Tayari's Blog: The R-O-X-A-N-N-E Links

Posted by TayariJones on August 24, 2009 02:42 PM
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  • Call her Dr. Roxanne Shante! And even better, she sued Warner Records for back royalities that financed her education! (Here's a video of Roxanne back in the day!)
  • Give us free! Sketches drawn of the Amistad prisoners as they awaited trail. (link via Light Reading)
  • A rare unicorn: A tenure track poetry gig in NYC.
  • Writers block at the end of a manuscript is perfectly normal. (And perfectly maddening.)
  • Obama's beach reads. Too bad Mr. Obama didn't take Doug Seibold's reccomendation for what the POTUS should read.
  • New York Magazine's fall list.
  • Good news: The Dodge Poetry Festival is back on!
  • Kim Chinquee talks about the difference between short fiction and flash fiction.
  • Saeed has found the wonderfullust ToMo quote ever.
  • You all know I have a complicated view of Karrine Steffans. Well the most famous "video vixen" has a new book out and Slate makes some interesting observations.
  • Not literaty but very disturbing: Costco removes "Lil Monkey" dolls from the shelves.
  • Vonnegut's advice is still good. (I especially like his advice to write in your own voice.)
  • Book inspired foods. (So weird you have to click.)
  • A-Z list of guests of the Bat Segundo Show.
  • How amazon makes it's sales ranking list.
  • Old school fan mail.

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