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Comment by P.Allen Jones on August 27, 2011 at 7:06pm

should you travel if you're disabled?  HECK YES!!!!!

The Best Therapy 

Comment by Tony Williams on August 18, 2011 at 6:50pm

I did an interview with African American poet Sandra Turner-Barnes and I thought I’d share it with you. She’s such an inspiring Sister, I felt I just had to do a feature on her. http://www.caribbeanbookblog.wordpress.com Hope you enjoy it.  

Comment by sara selznick on August 16, 2011 at 2:10pm

I meant Sunday New York Times. Sorry. I know somebody here will kindly post it for me. I just bought the paper.

Comment by sara selznick on August 16, 2011 at 2:10pm

Did anybody see Sunday's discussion about the movie version of "The Help?" They're main points are that a) it's the white woman driving the Civil Rights movement, and it's a Civil Rights movement facing white supremecists who are absolutely without teeth (or dogs, or sheriffs, or lynchings, or brandings, or burnings out--in fact, the only violence is of stage, at the hands of the African-American husband. like, in which planet did this take place?

 

Sara

Comment by sara selznick on August 16, 2011 at 2:07pm

Okay, I've read sixteen, but I've read others by chestnutt, too, and I  highly, highly recommend a book of short stories by Chester Himes. And where's Nella Larson here?

Oh, oh, oh, I loved the Street. I mean, it's hard to say loved, because it's immersion in depression, but it's so intense, it feels like you're literally inside her in her situation.

I also have to say I am not a fan of The Known World. There is so much in there that's lovely, but he puts in that magical negro character that's mostly in white's writing about black people or Native Americans, that character who is mentally ill, but in a sweet, magical way that gives her deep wisdom and, say, allows her to see the future.  (Think the blacksmith in the movie "the Black Stallion," driving out the the mysterious fog, or the crazy sister in The Secret Life of Bees, who is suicidal, but in a good way, you know? Ugh.)

 

Still, how lovely to see a list like this. I've got to jump on those I haven't read.

 

Sara Selznick

Comment by Valarie Rocha on August 15, 2011 at 6:22pm

Hey to all my fellow sister writers check out my site at http://rhythmoenergy.com. I've been getting great reviews and feedback. Lots of growth.

Comment by Rosalie Morales Kearns on August 15, 2011 at 4:52pm

Dera, I just saw your post on the 50 indispensable African American novels. I've read 12 on the list; sometimes read other books by authors listed there (Chestnutt, West). Many others are famous and are things I should have read already. Thanks for posting this.

Comment by JMcManus on August 13, 2011 at 2:28pm

Inside The Book of One Million Men and Me w/ Kelly Starling Lyons 

Stop by http://www.InsideTheBooks.com to check out my interview with One Million Men and Me author Kelly Sterling Lyons. 

(One Million Men and Me, a great book for children 5-10, is her first picture book but her second children’s book. Her first being NEATE: Eddie’s Ordeal.)

 

http://wp.me/p1AUrl-9b

Comment by Kakwasi Somadhi on August 6, 2011 at 11:42am

Valarie...greetings and welcome!

Comment by Totsymae on August 6, 2011 at 6:08am

Thanks for that list/website, Dera.

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