• DaWire (@DaWireTweets) on the 2010 San Juan Feria de Arte Sonoro (Sound Art Fair): http://bit.ly/diKGrf

• RT @georgiap: Mapping Haiti’s patrimony: the Mapping Haitian History Project: http://bit.ly/cB4Qmh

• NPR on a new biography of Julio Lobo, “Sugar King of Havana” (link via Repeating Islands): http://n.pr/bAgxxe

• James Bridle: do books still need covers?: http://bit.ly/djFSyH

• Jim Hanas: get rid of the slush pile: http://bit.ly/dbqmQG

• Christopher Higgs: Some Thoughts on Book Reviews: if a book gets no critical attention, is it even a book?: http://bit.ly/dyGmyv

• Pauline Melville at FLIP, the Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty [in Potuguese]: http://bit.ly/ax647Y

• “Decanting gold and silver from her wrists”: “Yarn Spinner”, a new poem by Pamela Mordecai, at Geoffrey Philp’s blog: http://bit.ly/9MS4ou

• Writer and scholar Sylvia Wynter honoured in Jamaica independence national awards: http://bit.ly/9euwte

• Charmaine Valere on Tanya Shirley’s She Who Sleeps With Bones: http://bit.ly/93M9hQ

• “Grace Jones on Writing” (as it were), at htmlgiant: http://bit.ly/aQuyKO

• Amanda Smyth (Black Rock) interviews Monique Roffey (The White Woman on the Green Bicycle) at Writers’ Hub: http://bit.ly/aaGcES

• David Granger on “The Material Culture of African-Guyanese” in Guyana Review: http://bit.ly/8YQAMc

• August 2010 issue of the Latin American Review of Books: http://bit.ly/anzFO3

• Gabriel García Márquez wins the Cbn Philosophical Association’s Nicolás Guillén Award for philosophical literature: http://bit.ly/cQahU7

• Jean Soublin reviews a new French translation of Olive Senior’s short fiction, Zigzag et autres nouvelles, in Le Monde: http://bit.ly/dnS6KY

• Andrea Levy’s novel The Long Song (set in 19th-century #Jamaica) longlisted for the #Booker Prize: http://bit.ly/ddGMg1

• Sarfraz Manzoor profiles Jamaican mento band the Jolly Boys in the UK Guardian: http://bit.ly/ccthoe

• Bajans in the Amazon? Article on Brazilian writer Marco Souza’s novel Mad Maria in Stabroek News: http://bit.ly/dtZDiG

• Revival of Paul Simon/Derek Walcott’s Capeman opens in NYC in August: http://bit.ly/bxdLLX

• Trinidadian Marlon Griffith wins 2010 Commonwealth Connections international arts residency: http://bit.ly/9y7e2o

• Announcing @Carifringe: an annual regional arts festival hosted in Nassau, launching October 2010: http://bit.ly/aXkXpw

• Bahamian Christian Campbell shortlisted for Forward Prize for best first collection: http://bit.ly/9cahf2

• Draconian Switch 13: Cozier, Smailes, Ashraph, Rawlins, Vasquez, Bolai: http://bit.ly/bhZeLZ

• George Elliott Clarke on the Calabash poetry anthology, So Much Things to Say: http://bit.ly/aR97gM

• Mediapart on Anthony Joseph’s recent performance in Arles (report in French + video footage): http://bit.ly/bCCu2j

• Lesley McDowell reviews Kei Miller’s The Last Warner Woman in the Glasgow Herald: http://bit.ly/csxOH7