In Billy-Ray Belcourt’s A Minor Chorus: A Novel, set against the stark expanse of Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel. His work is informed by a series of poignant encounters, including a heart-to-heart with fellow doctoral student River over the mounting pressure placed on marginalized …
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Graphic artists and writers from Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Haiti provide perspectives on how to better craft graphic novels and comic books that honor Caribbean sensibilities. With Jessica Oublié (Guadeloupe/Martinique), Ralph Penel Pierre (Haiti), and Chevelin Pierre (Haiti), moderated by author and ReadCaribbean coordinator M.J. Fievre . Special introduction by Anthoni Dominguez, director of Villa Albertine, …
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Children’s writers from Jamaica get together to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the island’s independence, and explore the continuity and convergence of childhood and adulthood in Caribbean fiction. With Janet Morrison on A Different Me, A Better You, Jean Hawthorn-DaCosta on Leroy: Adventures of a Yaad Boy, and Juleus Ghunta on Rohan Bullkin and the …
Writers and illustrators from Cuba, Puerto-Rico, and Haiti put forth visions for a more expansive future in Caribbean literature for young readers. With Terry Catasús Jennings and Raúl Colón (Cuba) on The Little House of Hope, Lesléa Newman and Elizabeth Baez (Puerto Rico) on Alicia and The Hurricane: A Story of Puerto Rico/Alicia Y El …
Caribbean writers explore the dichotomies that permeate life in the Caribbean, a place that is vibrant and joyous but also riddled with corruption and violence. They discuss the fascinating traditions and values that bind Caribbean people, but also the literal and metaphorical walls that divide them and the struggle to overcome the consequences imposed by …
Four Caribbean writers discuss the unreality of reality and the truth of the fantastic in their work. Jasmine Sealy (Barbados) on The Island of Forgetting, Opal Palmer Adisa (Jamaica) on The Storyteller’s Return: Story Poems, and Ayanna Lloyd Banwo (Trinidad) on When We Were Birds: A Novel. Moderating is Myriam J. A. Chancy (Haiti), author …
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In Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew, culinary and cultural historian Michael W. Twitty explores the crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine – and issues of memory, identity, and food. The question that most intrigues him is not just who makes the food, but how the food makes the …
Michelle Huneven’s Search: A Novel follows Dana, restaurant critic, food writer, and member of a progressive Unitarian Universalist church in Southern California, as she writes a memoir-with-recipes about her work on the committee tasked with finding a new minister for the congregation – a search that boils down a stark choice between two very different …
Julia Armfield’s Our Wives Under the Sea: A Novel follows marine biologist Leah, who left for a routine expedition months earlier, only this time, her submarine sank to the sea floor. Now Leah is changed. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife, Miri, knows something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her …
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In Count the Ways: A Novel, bestselling author Joyce Maynard follows the arc of the lives of Eleanor and Cam. From their meeting at a crafts fair in Vermont in the early 1970s, to having three children and a family life of softball games in the summer, snow days by the fire, and small traditions …
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Para celebrar el centenario del escritor portugués José Saramago, la Feria del Libro de Miami organiza un homenaje al Premio Nobel de Literatura 1988 y autor de obras tan importantes como Memorial del convento, Todos los nombres y El hombre duplicado, al que han sido invitadas Pilar del Río, esposa y traductora de buena parte …
Guillermo “Willie” Schavelzon, uno de los agentes literarios más importantes del mundo, quien fundó en 1998 la agencia literaria Schavelzon Graham con sede en Barcelona, y que representa a casi cien autores, presenta El enigma del oficio, libro en el que hace un recorrido por su larga carrera. Conversa con él la escritora, periodista y …
The Last Human collects four extraordinary poetry books – Sea Change, Place, Fast, and Runaway – by Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham, presenting a body of work that stands as a “lyric record” of the calamitous decades that began the 21st century. To read these four books in a single volume is to experience vastly complex …
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