I had the pleasure of watching the Stella Prize 2021 Longlist announcement this morning on YouTube. It’s actually the first time I took the time to do that in a while. I don’t think I’ve followed any major literary prize closely since Bernadine Evaristo had to share The Booker Prize win with Margaret Atwood. That […]
The Women’s Prize 2020 longlist was just announced very late in the evening few days ago. I woke up to the news on Twitter the next day. As disappointed as I was with the prize last year, you’re probably wondering what the heck am I doing on here posting about it this year. I couldn’t […]
Day 19 – Celebrate Good Times I can’t think of a better way to celebrate good times other than with friend, family, great food and drink. So this cookbook Jubilee: Recipes from two centuries of African American Cooking by Toni Tipton–Martin came immediately to mind. I have a thing for cookbooks. I can read […]
I must admit the first time I saw this cover and read this title I was immediately drawn in and was curious to see what this book was all about. As soon as, I realized that it was a collection of essays written by women recounting life living without their fathers and their sometimes subsequent […]
I don’t often get the chance to attend literary events , but when one is happening it’s usually in Paris and I try my damnedest to get there. Tuesday night, the 11th of July, I had the pleasure of listening to Edwidge Danticat and Marie Darrieusseecq in promotion of Freeman’s The Best New Writing on […]
The 2017 Baileys prize for women’s fiction longlist: Stay With Me by Ayòbámi Adébáyò (Canongate) The Power by Naomi Alderman (Viking) Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood (Hogarth) Little Deaths by Emma Flint (Picador) The Mare by Mary Gaitskill (Serpent’s Tail) The Dark Circle by Linda Grant (Virago) The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride (Faber & Faber) […]
The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction is one of the literary prizes thatI look forward to the most. It is a prestigious UK prize, founded in 1996, that honors great women writers from all over the world. Wednesday, March 8th the Baileys Women’s Prize Longlist will be announced. Traditionally the longlist contains 20 choices however […]
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I’d never heard the words Kirk? Krak! and wondered what they meant when I picked this book up. Reading the back cover, I learned that storytellers say Krik? and listeners say Krak! in Haiti. Krik? Krak! is a poetic collection of connected short stories that explores the Haitian community in the United States and in Haiti. […]
The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2016 Shortlist was announced earlier today. I have to say I’m a little disappointed. I expected a stronger less predictable shortlist. I’ve read only two titles from this shortlist and neither of them rocked my world – The Green Road by Anne Enright and Ruby by Cynthia Bond. The […]
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