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ugonna-wachuku's picture
Apr.08.2013
Humbly pitching:   AMERICAN GALAXY: Celebrating the People and the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave / Remembering the Union's Faith Foundation / A Loving Higher Purpose for the People: http://uwachuku.googlepages.com/americangalaxy + http://ugowach.tigblog.org/post/503605 + http...
margo-dorksen's picture
Jul.20.2011
Check out this new Kindle Forum, where Kindle readers and authors can easily find books by price and category without all the usual hype and repetition.  L. T. Fawkes Reading Room at http:www//ltfawkes.com   KINDLE FORUM | LT Fawkes www.ltfawkes.com Here’s a brand new Kindle resource where...
aberjhani's picture
May.02.2009
I'm thinking at the moment about Christina Crawford's unforgiving memoir, Mommy Dearest, in which with just 216 pages the author transformed actress Joan Crawford's image from that of iconic Hollywood legend to maniacal abusive mother of the year. I'm also considering the urban lit classic Mama...
ugonna-wachuku's picture
Jan.19.2009
Below are excerpts from the Introduction of my up-coming new book: American Galaxy Remembering the Union's Faith Foundation - Celebrating the People and the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave - A Loving Higher Purpose for the People. Also, a detailed preview and description of American...
dave-rosenthal's picture
Dec.08.2008
Padma Viswanathan, The Toss of a Lemon I met Padma Viswanathan at a reading at Johns Hopkins, where she got a master's in creative writing, and was captivated by her story. The Toss of a Lemon is an intergenerational tale set in India, drawn from family lore and her imagination. We did this...
dave-rosenthal's picture
Nov.03.2008
Baltimore has a rich literary heritage ...  and here's a way to test your knowledge. Answer in a comment on The Baltimore Sun's Read Street blog and you'll be entered in a book drawing (you don’t need a perfect score to win). Thanks to the University of Baltimore’s Literary Heritage Project,...
stacy-ann-nyikos's picture
Oct.03.2008
Not one to shy away from controversy, I thought I'd tie into this recent discourse I read about in the newspaper. The Nobel Prize committee stated that there was a glaring reason as to why no American authors are on the shortlist for the Nobel Prize in literature, namely, we are too ignorant, too...