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The room filled with about 60 people, some standing in the back, for the interview of Amiri Baraka by Colin Channer. Baraka, known for his poetry and activism, recently released a short story collection Tales of the Out and the Gone, published by Akashic Books, a Brooklyn-based independent house that also published a collection of Jamaican writers as edited by Channer. Akashic’s publisher Johnny Temple introduced them.
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Legion of Lit Mags 2006
This year's Legion of Lit Mag fair was a night filled with fun. Nine literary magazines—Small Spiral Notebook, Ballyhoo Stories, BOMB, Pindeldyboz, Swink, Tin House, Quick Fiction, Opium and Post Road—united to showcase six exciting readers. The selection was a sprightly one, giving those in attendance a flavorful scoop of what these periodicals have been up to.
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Francine Prose and Jennifer Egan in Conversation
The Humanities and Research Library on 5th Avenue and 42nd Street is a wonderful place for a discussion or reading because the building’s awe-inspiring architecture, monumental steps and pillars, and cathedral ceilings silence the audience and prime them to pay attention to the secrets of an austere yet illuminated building and the discourses held therein. Francine Prose and Jennifer Egan are former fellows of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Both were finalists for the National Book Award and, according to the curator of the evening, should have won for their novels, Blue Angel and Look at Me. Although the evening had a topic, Novel Effects: Reading and Writing Against Type, there were no boundaries to their conversation.
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