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With out getting too academic about it, I love James Baldwin. I loved him before I knew I was gay and fell even deeper in love with him once I acknowledged my own sexuality. Never in all of my voracious reading as a teenager had I encountered, up to that point, anyone who wrote about [...]
Read moreNothing to Envy
This weekend I traveled to a place I know very little about: North Korea. It was not a journey I’d expected to take. In fact, it was on a whim that I downloaded Barbara Demick’s affecting nonfiction book, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, to my Kindle on Saturday night. Earlier in the [...]
Read moreDelving into "He Art: Pieces of A Whole"
New York-based poet Judith D. Angeles’ first chapbook of poems, He Art: Pieces of a Whole is an intensely personal walk through heart break and the agony of healing. Gathered together by several motifs (food, sheets, tears, screams, smoke) that bind the 13 pieces to each other, He Art opens with the eponymous poem, wasting [...]
Read moreBook Review: The Book of Night Women
I bought Marlon James’ second novel, The Book of Night Women this past summer intending to read it immediately. I made it through the first chapter, which grabbed me by the throat with its straightforward and graphic reflection on bloody childbirth and, perhaps relieved to be released from such a painful beginning, I set the [...]
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