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The Writing Life
The Atlanta Child Murders, Case Re-Opened
This weekend, the DeKalb County police cheif has re-opened the case of The Atlanta Child Murders, the subject of my 2002 novel, LEAVING ATLANTA. I am sort of stunned by the news. Like many native Atlantans, I had a sort of instinctual doubt about the case againt Wayne WIlliams.
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Zohreh’s Mircale Throat-Tea
This will be my last entry on laryngitis, because I am CURED! All the credit goes to my friend and colleauge, Zohreh, who gave the recipe for a traditional Iranian cure. Here’s how you make it:
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Yet Another Milestone?
Frat Files is a service that provides “sample” research papers for college students. The idea isn’t that the students would print off the papers and turn them in as their own. No, never! For that would be cheating.
Well, I am … surprised, weirdly pleased, a somewhat disturbed.. to find that there is a Frat File for Leaving Atlanta. I’m dying to read the essay, but I can’t bring myself to pay the $17.95 for a 30-day trial membership.
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Sweet Pearl Cleage
Pearl was my very first mentor. I met her when I was about 17 years old, having just figured out which was the business end of a ball-point. This was almost twenty years ago, before Oprah came a-calling. Before she was PEARL CLEAGE. When she was just Pearl, the only teacher at Spelman who let us call her by her first name.
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PRINTED and BOUND
I am happy to announce that The Untelling has been printed and bound. There’s the bell. Round two has officially begun.
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Mariah and Me
So, the Essence magazine article is out. I’m in the issue where Mariah Carey is officially crowned at “the most mis-understood black woman in America.” (And just think, for all these years, I thought I was the undisputed winner of that particular title.)
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Screenplay?
Today, much to my surprise, I received a screenplay in the mail. And even curiouser, it was screenplay adaptation of my first novel, LEAVING ATLANTA.
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