Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship to books and not to living masters of the craft.
Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event … - Madison Smartt Bell
Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event …
- Madison Smartt Bell
Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that gathers… - Madison Smartt Bell
Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that gathers…
In For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes). - Madison Smartt Bell
In For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).
To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that cant get through the mesh to bite you. - Madison Smartt Bell
To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that cant get through the mesh to bite you.
Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprentices… - Madison Smartt Bell
Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprentices…
Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again. - Madison Smartt Bell
Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
In TheColorful Apocalypse, Greg Bottoms explores the frontier between inspiration and psychosis with the expressive power, the passionate fervor, and… - Madison Smartt Bell
In TheColorful Apocalypse, Greg Bottoms explores the frontier between inspiration and psychosis with the expressive power, the passionate fervor, and…
Jeremy Popkin's collection of first-person narratives of the Haitian Revolution is an extremely valuable work, accessible, sound and intelligent. I o… - Madison Smartt Bell
Jeremy Popkin's collection of first-person narratives of the Haitian Revolution is an extremely valuable work, accessible, sound and intelligent. I o…
I dont call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I dont. - Madison Smartt Bell
I dont call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I dont.
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