June 5, 2007

Danticat on Díaz “It’s one of those stories that you like in spite of yourself. You think … I shouldn’t really enjoy this character, but you do.” –Edwidge Danticat, discussing Junot Díaz’s short story “How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)” with New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman, in this [...]

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June 4, 2007

Last taste of Calabash Is it really a whole week, dear readers, since I returned from Jamaica and the Calabash International Literary Festival? Here’s a final roundup of Calabash 2007 coverage: – Kwame Dawes, one of the three Calabash principals (with Colin Channer and Justine Henzell), has written a detailed account of this year’s festival [...]

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June 4, 2007

More bedside books I know, dear readers, Friday is supposed to be “bedside books” day. But last Friday I was busy preparing for the “Finding the Thread” event and didn’t manage to post anything to Antilles at all. Let me try to make good. Georgia Popplewell of Caribbean Free Radio hasn’t written for the CRB [...]

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June 3, 2007

Sunday links roundup – The Arts and Leisure section of today’s Jamaica Gleaner offers a review by Mary Hanna of Erna Brodber’s new novel, The Rainmaker’s Mistake, as well as two short stories: “Sailing from DaMarie Street”, by Kimmisha Thomas, and “The Day That Thou Gavest”, by Cordella Lewis. – Also in the Gleaner, Anthea [...]

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May 31, 2007

Finding the Thread Alice Yard, Woodbrook, Port of Spain. Photo courtesy Ivan R. Belcic, Trinity College, USA Finding the Thread: A Visual Arts Conversation will be hosted by architect Sean Leonard at Alice Yard, 80 Roberts Street, Woodbrook, Port of Spain, Trinidad, on Friday 1 June at 6.30 pm. Admission is free and all are [...]

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May 31, 2007

“It is an extensive shore….” Ah, that old, knotty, unknottable question: what does “Caribbean” mean? Over at Global Voices, Karel McIntosh asks three bloggers–Jamaicans Geoffrey Philp and Francis Wade, and the pseudonymous Guyana Media Critic–for some possible answers. Editing a magazine called The Caribbean Review of Books means, of course, that in all sorts of [...]

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May 30, 2007

Underrated? New York magazine asked 61 book critics to name their “favourite underrated book of the past ten years”, and the full list, with brief annotations, is published in their current issue. I scrolled through, wondering if any Caribbean books would make an appearance–and there, nominated by Jean Stein, was Patrick Chamoiseau’s Texaco. I’m wondering, [...]

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May 29, 2007

“Where are the thinkers of today?” While I was having a ball last Friday night in Treasure Beach, back in Port of Spain, CRB contributor Jonathan Ali went to hear Rex Nettleford, vice-chancellor emeritus of the University of the West Indies, deliver the Eric Williams Memorial Lecture. He files this report on the event. Jamaica’s [...]

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May 29, 2007

Caribbean lit links – Over at his blog, my colleague Jeremy Taylor describes the feeling of “book fatigue”–”So many books I’ve started in the last few weeks, only to abandon them after a few chapters or pages, or skim through them impatient to get to the end!”–then lists the handful of books that have managed [...]

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May 27, 2007

Sunday at Calabash The main tent at Jake’s I’m back in Kingston as I write this post, dear readers, on the other side of a three-hour drive from Treasure Beach. I would gladly have stuck around for the final hours of Calabash and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize party beside the pool at Jake’s, but I [...]

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May 27, 2007

Kwame Dawes on Calabash Somehow, in between actually running the Calabash programme, Kwame Dawes has found the time to blog about the festival this weekend, over at the Poetry Foundation blog, Harriet. Read his two instalments thus far: “Arrival” and “First Night”.

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