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Giving the literary smackdown in December at Elle Magazine! Check me out at http://www.elle.com/pop-culture/reviews/new-novels-december-2012!
On December 2, I participated in a reading with Cave Canem fellows and Poet Legend, Kwame Dawes in Baltimore.
The reading was recorded, so check it out here: http://www.prattlibrary.org/booksmedia/podcasts/index.aspx?id=77463
(I’m on the poster! Felt like a Superstar!)
For the past three years, I’ve been conditioned to use the library as research — rarely taking out books that I want to read and enjoy.
Well…I kind of forgot about it! That is until yesterday, Ross and I walked to the local Belmont Branch here in Richmond.
I took out:
and
Reading Tayari’s book first. Then, I plan on taking out Zadie Smith’s book that I’ve heard such good things about:
Read it here: http://www.elle.com/pop-culture/reviews/new-memoirs-october-2012-3
Giving the literary smackdown this month (and in December) at Elle Magazine! Check me out at http://www.elle.com/pop-culture/reviews/new-memoirs-october-2012!
Diana Ross, in full “Mahogany” bloom, filming with Anthony Perkins in 1975. Joan Juliet Buck, a former editor of French Vogue, told Constance White (now Editor-in-Chief of Essence) for White’s book “Style Noir”: “Valentino was asked to design the costumes for “Mahogany”, but Diana Ross set off a scandal in Italy (where filming was taking place) when she decided to take charge of her own wardrobe. She ripped everything apart and decideed to redesign it herself.” Photo by Echoes/Redferns.
Thrall by Natasha Trethewey
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton
Horse in the Dark by Vievee Francis
