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Dec.21.2012 Veering Toward Melodrama Cutting For Stone, by Abraham Verghese image via schulerbooks.wordpress.com This is an ambitious project. And like many ambitious novels, Cutting For Stone walks a tightrope between admission to the literary canon and the agony of reaching too high. Perhaps only history itself is the...	Jul.05.2012 Dancing to the Paradigm Rhythms of Change in Action (part 1 of 2) Imprisoned Ethiopian journalist and publisher Eskinder Nega.(photo courtesy of World News) “I am Eskinder Nega. Like my hero Nelson Mandela, my soul is unconquered, my spirit unbroken, my head unbowed, and my heart unafraid.”—Eskinder Nega from I Am Eskinder Nega Change is one of the...
May.08.2012 World Voices Festival Celebrates Literary Diplomacy (part 1 of 2) Ethiopian Journalist and "political prisoner" Eskinder Nega. Political relations between China and the United States may have been visibly strained due to Chinese activist and lawyer Chen Guangcheng’s unexpected bid for asylum last week but diplomacy and fellowship between authors from...	Apr.28.2012 A Woman's View Of Life In Islam Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali image via straitjacketsmagazine.com I recently found this book on the living room bookshelves, one I soon learned the missus had read for her book discussion group. I was familiar with this woman’s role in Dutch Parliament, her stand against the worst acts...
Mar.01.2012 Eight Jokes for the Unborn An excerpt: 1985, we stole fistfuls of change, slipped fingers into jean pockets and cup holders, mined pennies from the asphalt. In school, the nuns lowered their papery eyelids. Ethiopians are dying, they said, and offered us build-your-own UNICEF boxes, corner to corner, flap into slit. We...