On the Origin & Importance of Small & Fugitive Pieces
The Black World Today Harlem, New York I’ve recently read, with great interest, that the African American Literature section of the Borders Books store at the Stonecrest mall in Lithonia, Ga, is suffering a pestilence of “pornography for black women.” The earnest author, most recently of A Love Story, Nick Chiles reports to the New […]
Chinua Achebe
KURT THOMETZ NEW YORK CITY Things Falling Together On Saturday, May 4, the great Nigerian author Chinua Achebe spoke at NYU’s Vanderbilt Hall. It was an elegant venue for the man who is arguably the greatest literary stylist of the second half of the 20th Century (Things Fall Apart, A Man of the People, Anthills […]
Jumel Terrace B&B
Life Turns Man Up & Down
The Private Library