Connecting Thread: From Roe to Revolution (1 of 5)

2022-01-21T20:26:23-05:00

At first, I planned to carry on with my non-fiction and fiction rhythm from my booklog. While I was reading up on Lauren Groff to review her new book for The Chicago Review of Books, I came across her essay “The Ambivalent Activist, Jane Roe” in Fight of the

Connecting Thread: From Roe to Revolution (1 of 5)2022-01-21T20:26:23-05:00

Quarterly Stories: Summer 2017

2019-03-21T15:03:23-04:00

Besides Lori McNulty's Life on Mars and Mavis Gallant's stories, I've been dabbling in some other collections this year too. Edwidge Danticat's Krik? Krak! (1996) Drawn from a number of literary magazines and publications (including 1994's Pushcart Prize collection), these tales were gathered together to satisfy the readers who yearned

Quarterly Stories: Summer 20172019-03-21T15:03:23-04:00

BHM: Edwidge Danticat

2014-03-15T19:11:15-04:00

"Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I’ve always thought it meant to be a writer." So says Edwidge Danticat, in the early pages of the work inspired by Albert Camus' essay and, also, inspired by countless tales of courageous reading and writing and living.

BHM: Edwidge Danticat2014-03-15T19:11:15-04:00

Home: The Return

2017-07-20T17:44:27-04:00

Dany Laferrière's The Return (2009) Translated by David Homel Douglas & McIntyre, 2011 David Homel says that he has translated Dany Laferrière's work so often now that he knows how he ticks, knows his schtick, knows his voice so well that he has avoided translating anyone else for awhile. Perhaps that's

Home: The Return2017-07-20T17:44:27-04:00
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