Madison Smartt Bell Quotes
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Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship to books and…
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Sometimes you don't get but one mistake, if the one you pick is bad enough.
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In TheColorful Apocalypse, Greg Bottoms explores the frontier between inspiration and psychosis with the expressive power, the passionate fervor, and the faithfully unflinching honesty for…
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Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that gathers a luminous…
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Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such…
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Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
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The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of us…
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John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning…
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