Shadowshaper (Shadowshaper, #1)

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#TBT: Dwell at CAC Woodside in Troy

Dwell at CAC Woodside in Troy (originally posted Oct 9, 2011)Filed under: Art Tagged: Art, mohu, sculpture, Troy

Close reading: ‘Epiphany’ by S.E. Venart

'I am the big heart, aren’t I?': 'Epiphany' by S.E. Venart is a brilliant and devastating poem

Nietzsche on writing

vintageanchor: “The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.” —Friedrich Nietzsche (Source: http://ift.tt/2t0vA8o)Filed under: Writing Tagged: birth of tragedy, Friedrich Nietzsche, Quotes, silence, Vintage Anchor, writing

This is going to make my dog mad …

I recently uploaded some photos to Google Photo Backup. One thing it does is automatically group images with similar content and then label them things like “Food” or “Flowers” or “Beaches.” There’s even a “Dogs” one, which features plenty of photos of my dog. And then today I discovered a new one, also featuring my … Continue reading This is going to make my dog mad … →

From the archive: Michael Winslow Whole Lotta Love

A Whole Lotta Love like you’ve never heard it before. (Originally posted Oct 19, 2011)

NOR The African Literary Hustle

Issue 43 of New Orleans Review is themed "The African Literary Hustle" and opens with the editorial by Mukoma Wa Ngugi and Laura T. Murphy, "This Hustle is Not Your Grandpa's African Lit." The two issue editors examine the historical 'presentation' of African literature published in Western culture as "all too often realist, in English, and in the spirit of Chinua Achebe. But romance, science fiction, fantasy, epic, experimental poetry, satire, and political allegory all find expression in Africa, though not necessarily publication." The editors confront this disparity, "Those who are called to write often have to hustle to get recognition by writing a coming-of-age colonial encounter tale or hustle even harder to have their unique voices heard. So the post-Achebe generation writer faces all sorts of firewalls."

Thus, the call went out for this issue, and writers responded with the editors hoping "to provoke some interesting and unpredictable writing and thinking that would reflect and respond to the spirit of the hustle." Oddly enough, the editors note, "eighty percent of the submissions were from white non-African-identifying writers who thought they could hustle their way into a volume of African literature and had no qualms about it." Seriously.

The editors close on the comment, "But what is African literature? Is there, can there be, was there ever and African literature? In asking you have answered your question. African literature is a question. It is an open question that invites, and has to keep on inviting, different geographies, languages and forms."

Thus, this issue of New Orleans Review: The African Literary Hustle.

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