September 30, 2011

Miami Book Fair International: 2011 Confirmed Authors (Alphabetical)




Alphabetical Listing as of September 30, 2011  


Adam Haslett -   Union Atlantic
Adam Mansbach -   Go the F**k to Sleep
Adrian Castro -   I'm the One with the Blue Cap On by Jeffrey Knapp
Adrian Tomine -   Scenes From an Impending Marriage
Agustin Fernandez Mallo -   Conversaciones trasatlánticas: Encuentro de la Generación del
Crack y La Generación Nocilla
Agustin Fernandez Mallo -   De la voz de los autores: lecturas breves
Aida Levitan, Ph.D. -   The City of Possible Unity
Alan Cheuse -   Songs of Slaves in the Desert
Alan Pauls -   Conversaciones trasatlánticas:La literatura en el cine
Alan Pauls -   De la voz de los autores: lecturas breves
Alberto Muller -   Wordpress:un blog para hablar al mundo, de Yoani Sánchez
Alejandra Ferrezza -   The City of Possible Unity
Alejandro Anreus -   Memento mori
Alex Fumero -   Hialeah Haikus
Alex Nodarse -   Hialeah Haikus
Alexandra Styron -   Reading My Father: A Memoir
Alina Galiano -   Indómitas al sol. Cinco poetas cubanas en NY
Alison Thompson -   The Third Wave
Allan H. Barr -   China in Ten Words
America Manzano -   The City of Possible Unity
Aminatta Forna -   The Memory of Love
Amor Towles -   Rules of Civility
Amy Krouse Rosenthal -
Amy Rennert -   Writers Institute Agent
Amy Waldman -   The Submission
Ana Istarú -   Hombres en escabeche (teatro) (Editorial Costa Rica)
Ana Istarú -   Poesía Escogida
Ana María Cruz -   Foro Cuentas Claras: aprenda a manejar su dinero
Ana Menendez -   Adios, Happy Homeland!
Ana Menendez -   Blue Christmas
Andrea Herrera -   Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora
Andrés Jorge González -   Barcos que se cruzan en la noche
Andrew Carmellini -   American Flavor
Andrew Downes -   Labour Markets in Small Developing States
Andrew Smith -   The Marbury Lens and Stick
Andy Borowitz -   The 50 Funniest American Writers* (*according to Andy Borowitz): A
Humor Anthology from Mark Twain to The Onion
Angel Antonio Moreno -   The City of Possible Unity
Angela Barry -   Goree: Point of Departure
Angela Farris Watkins -   My Uncle Martin's Words for America
Ann Bannon
Ann Hood -   Blue Christmas
Ann Hood -   The Red Thread:  A Novel
Ann Napolitano -   A Good Hard Look:  A Novel
Arturo Rodríguez -   Expo Memento Mori
Belle Yang -   Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale
Ben Cherot -   NAW'LINS
Ben Katchor -   The Cardboard Valise
Beth Ann Fennelly -   Unmentionables: Poems
Beth Brickell -   William and Mary Brickell: Founders of Miami and Fort Lauderdale
Biang Jiang -   Chinese Author Delegation - need titles in English
Bill Clegg -   Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir
Bob Edwards -   A Voice in the Box: My Life in Radio
Bobbie Ann Mason -   The Girl in the Blue Beret
Bonnie Clearwater -   Rita Ackerman
Bradford Morrow -   The Diviner's Tale
Brenda Flanagan -   In Praise of Island Women and Other Crimes
Brian Meeks -   The Thought of New World: The Quest for Decolonisation
Brooke Hauser -   The New Kids:  Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for
Immigrant Teens
Calvin Trillin -   Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff
Campbell McGrath
Caridad Moro -   The City of Possible Unity
Carl Phillips -   Double Shadow: Poems
Carlos Alberto Monaner -   Wordpress:un blog para hablar al mundo, de Yoani Sánchez
Carlos Alberto Montaner -   La mujer del coronel
Carlos Alberto Montaner -   Wordpress:un blog para hablar al mundo, de Yoani Sánchez
Carmela Ciuraru -   Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms
Carmen Duarte -   Donde empieza y acaba el mundo
Carmina Trueba -   El intenso aroma del café
Cedella Marley -   One Love
Charles J. Shields -   And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life
Charles Kropke -   South Beach: Stories of a Renaissance
Chef Daniel Orr -   Paradise Kitchen: Caribbean Cooking with Daniel Orr
Chely Lima -   Lucrecia quiere decir perfidia
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan -   A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family
Chris Wilson -   School of Comics
Christopher Kenneally -   Panel discussion on e books
Christopher Paolini -   Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle)
Chuck Palahniuk -   Damned
Colleen Houck -   Tiger's Voyage
Colson Whitehead -   Zone One: A Novel
Conor McCreery -   Kill Shakespeare
Cristina Diaz Gonzalez -   The Red Umbrella
Cristina Garcia -   Dreams of Significant Girls
Cyril Pedrosa -   Trois Ombres
D.J. MacHale -   The Black (Morpheus Road)
Da Chen -   Brothers
Damien Lichtenstein -   Discover the Gift
Dan Clowes -   The Death-Ray
Dan Santat -   Sidekicks
Darrell Hammond -   God, If You're Not Up There, I'm F*CKED: Misadventures in Stand-up,
Saturday Night Live, and Other Mind-Altering Mayhem.
Dava Sobel -   A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
Dave Barry -   I'll Mature When I'm Dead
David Brooks -   The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
David Unger -   The Price of Escape
Dean Haspiel -   Harvey Pekar/The Pekar Project
Debbie Levy -   The Year of Goodbyes: A True Story of Friendship, Family, and Farewells
Debbie Viguie -   Damned (Crusade series)
Deborah Sharp -   Mama Sees Stars
Deborah Willis -   Posing Beauty:  African American Images from the 1890s to Present
Denis Fortún -   The City of Possible Unity
Denis Kitchen -   Chipboard Sketchbook and Crime Does Not Pay
Diana Abu-Jaber -   Birds of Paradise:  A Novel
Dina Knapp -   I'm the One with the Blue Cap On by Jeffrey Knapp
Dominic Smith -   Bright and Distant Shores
Don Van Natta Jr. -   Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Donna Weir-Soley -   Caribbean Erotica
Dorothy Allison
Dr. Arthur Agatston -   The South Beach Wake-Up Call
Dr. Paul S. George -   The Paths to Justice: The Story of Florida's Eleventh Judicial Circuit
Dr. Silvio Ambrogi -   The City of Possible Unity
Dr. Thierry Brun -   Napoleon's Chinese Spy
Dwayne Booth A.K.A Mr. Fish -   Go Fish
Dyan Cannon -   Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant
Edmundo Paz Soldán -   Conversaciones trasatlánticas: El complicado arte del cuento
Edmundo Paz Soldán -   Norte
Edna Buchanan -   A Dark and Lonely Place
Elena Santayana -   Hialeah Haikus
Elena Tamargo -   Días ya vacíos
Elizabeth Berg -   Once Upon A Time, There Was You
Elizabeth Nunez -   Boundaries
Elizabeth Stuckey-French -   The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady
Ellen Hopkins -   Pefect
Ellen Hopkins -   Triangles
Ellen Prager -   Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Oceans' Oddest Creatures and Why They
Matter
Emma Trelles -   Tropicalia
Ena Columbié -   Solitar
Enrique Ros -   Cuba: Mambises nacidos en otras tierras
Eric Dezenhall -   The Devil Himself
Eric Skillman -   Liar's Kiss
Erin McHugh -   The Life
Ernesto Ravelo -   The City of Possible Unity
Esmeralda Santiago -   Conquistadora
Espido Freire -   Conversaciones trasatlánticas: La profundidad de lo superficial
Espido Freire -   De la voz de los autores: lecturas breves
Eucario Bermúdez -   El talento no se jubila
Eugenio Tuya -   Wordpress:un blog para hablar al mundo, de Yoani Sánchez
Eunice Heath-Tate -   When God Wasn't Looking
Farid Matuk -   This Isa Nice Neighborhood
Félix Lizárraga -   The City of Possible Unity
Francisco Corces -   The City of Possible Unity
Francisco Goldman -   Say Her Name:  A Novel
Francisco Martín Moreno -   Arrebatos carnales II
Gabrielle Hamilton -   Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Gene Luen Yang -   Level Up
Geoffrey Philp -   I'm the One with the Blue Cap On by Jeffrey Knapp
Geoffrey Philp -   Marcus and the Amazons
Gerald Nicosia -   One and Only: The Untold Story of On The Road
Gerald Stern -   Early Collected Poems: 1965-1992
Gerald Stern -   New Jersey Noir
Gilberto Dihigo -   Panel: Racismo en la Cuba actual
Gina Rudan -   Practical Genius: The Real Smarts You Need to get Your Passions and Talents
Working for You
Gordon Rohlehr -   Transgression, Transition, Transformation: Essays in Caribbean Culture
Grace Lin -   Ling and Ting: Not Exactly the Same/The Year of the Rat/The Year of the
Dog/Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Grace Zong -   Orange Peel's Pocket
Greg Iles -   Rock Bottom Remainders
Guillaume Gueraud -   Sans la tele
Guillermo Lousteau Heguy -   Mesa: Autoritarismo y democracia en América Latina
Gustavo Nielsen -   La otra playa
Harry Belafonte -   My Song: A Memoir
Heather Graham -   Phantom Evil
Hector Tobar -   The Barbarian Nurseries
Helon Habila -   Oil on Water:  A Novel
Henry Cole -   A Nest For Celeste: A Story About Art, Inspiration and the Meaning of Home
Hilda García -   Panel:Escritores hispanos en Estados Unidos
Hillary Jordan -   When She Woke
Hong Ying -   Chinese Author Delegation
Ian Vasquez -   Mr. Hooligan
Inflammation Relief for an Active Life
Iraida Iturralde -   Indómitas al sol.Cinco poetas cubanas en NY
Isabel Wilkerson -   The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Jack Harney -   The Millstone Prophecy
Jacquelyn Mitchard -   Second Nature: A Love Story
Jaime Bayly -   El secreto de Alma Rossi
Jaimy Gordon -   Lord of Misrule
James Gleick -   The Information
James Grippando -   Afraid of the Dark
James W. Hall -   Blue Christmas
Jason Shiga -   Empire State:  A Love Story
Jason Skipper -   Hustle
Javier Sierra -   El ángel perdido
Javier Sierra -   The Lost Angel
Jay Edlin -   Grafitti 365
Jeff Abbott -  Adrenaline
Jeff Hirsch -   The Eleventh Plague
Jeff Jensen -   Green River Killer: A True Detective Story
Jeff Kinney -   Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever
Jeff Lindsay -   Double Dexter
Jeff Newelt -   Harvey Pekar/The Pekar Project
Jeffrey Eugenides -   The Marriage Plot: A Novel
Jeffrey Siger -   Prey on Patmos
Jennifer Hayden -   Underwire
Jess Row -   Nobody Ever Gets Lost: Stories
Jessica B. Harris -   High On The Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
Jessica Martinez -   Virtuosity
Jesús Barquet -   Ediciones el Puente en la Habana de los años 60
Jill Bialosky -   History of s Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life
Jim Lehrer -   Tension City
Jim Ottaviani -   Feynman
Jim Rasenberger -   The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of
Cuba's Bay of Pigs
Jim Ray Daniels -   Tigertail, a South Florida Annual
Jim Ray Daniels -   Trigger Man: More Tales of the Motor City
Joanne Slan -   Make, Take, Murder
Joe McGinniss -   The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin
John Barth -   Every Third Tought
John Connolly -   The Burning Soul
John Connolly -   The Infernals
John Dufresne -   Blue Christmas
John Dufresne -   I'm the One with the Blue Cap On by Jeffrey Knapp
John G. Jacobsen -   A Commodore of Errors
John Hogan -   moderator, comics panel
John Jeremiah Sullivan -   Pulphead: Essays
John R. Schmidt -   The Unraveling: Pakistan in the Age of Jihad
John Sayles -   A Moment in the Sun
John Shableski
Jon Scieszka -   SPHDZ Book #3!
Jonathan Auxier -   Peter Nimble and his Fantastic Eyes
Jonathan Case -   Green River Killer: A True Detective Story
Jonathan M. Hansen -   Guantanamo: An American History
Jorge Castaneda -   Manana Forever
Jorge Ruiz -   Foro Cuentas Claras: aprenda a manejar su dinero
Jorge Volpi -   Conversaciones trasatlánticas: Encuentro de la generación del Crack y la
generación Nocilla
Jorge Volpi -   Leer la mente: el arte del cerebro y la ficción
José Abreu Felippe -   El instante
Jose Alvarez -   Los Alamos del Bosque
José Ignacio Valenzuela -   La mujer infinita
José Luis Muñoz -   Llueve sobre la Habana
José Soroa -   The City of Possible Unity
Joseph Remnant -   Harvey Pekar/The Pekar Project
Joyce Brabner -   Harvey Pekar/The Pekar Project
Joyce Carol Oates -   A Widow
Joyce Carol Oates -   New Jersey Noir
Juan F. Benemelis -   Panel: Racismo en la Cuba actual/El miedo al negro
Juan Gabriel Vásquez -   El ruido de las cosas al caer
Juan J. Almeida -   Panel: Racismo en la Cuba actual
Julie De Grandy -   La elección de Salomón
Julie de Grandy -   The City of Possible Unity
Julie Salaman -   Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein
Julie Stav -   Foro Cuentas Claras: aprenda a manejar su dinero
Juliet Eilperin -   Demon Fish:  Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
Justin Torres -   We the Animals
Kadir Nelson -   We Are The Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
Karen Russell -   Swamplandia!
Kate Whouley -   Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words: Travels with Mom in the Land
of Dementia
Katharine Weber -   The Memory of All That
Kathi Goldmark -   Rock Bottom Remainders
Kathy Patrick -   The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life
Katie Chaple -   Pretty Little Rooms
Kelle Groom -   I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl
Kelly DiPucchio -   Zombie in Love
Kola Boof -   The Sexy Part of the Bible
Kostya Kennedy -   56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports
Lauren Book -   It's OK to Tell: A Story of Hope and Recovery
Le Roy Clarke -   Voice of a Smouldering Coal
Lee Bennett Hopkins -   Full Moon and Star
Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming -   Immortelle and Bhandaaraa Poems
Leo Selis -   Loco
Leslie Brody -   Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford
Leslie Marmon Silko -   The Turquoise Ledge
Lev Grossman -   The Magician King:  A Novel
Leylha Ahuile -   Panel:Escritores hispanos en Estados Unidos
Liliana Colanzi -   Vacaciones permanentes
Lin Arison -   Feast of the Senses: A Musical Odyssey in Umbria
Linda Gassenheimer -   Fast and Flavorful: Great Diabetes Meals from Market to Table
Lisa Napoli -   Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth
Li-Young Lee -   Behind My Eyes: Poems
Liza Gyllenhaal -   So Near
Lori Roy -   Bent Road
Lourdes Gil -   Indómitas al sol. Cinco poetas cubanas en NY
Lourdes Vázquez -   La mujer, el pan y el pordiosero
Luis Alberto Lacalle -   Mesa: Autoritarismo y democracia en América Latina
Luis Alberto Urrea -   Queen of America:  A Novel
Luis Hurtado -   Mesa: Autoritarismo y democracia en América Latina
Lynn Schnurnberger -   The Best Laid Plains
Lynne Barrett -   Magpies
Lynne Barrett -   Tigertail, a South Florida Annual
Madeline Cámara -   María Zambrano: Palabras para el mundo
Magali Alabau -   Indómitas al sol.Cinco poetas cubanas en NY
Magda Kraw -   The City of Possible Unity
Manny Miranda -   Foro Cuentas Claras: aprenda a manejar su dinero
Manuel Vasquez Portal -   The City of Possible Unity
Marc Agronin -   How We Age: A Doctor's Journey Into the Heart of Growing Old
Marcela Landres -   Writers Instiute Editor
Marco Ramirez -   Hialeah Haikus
Margaret Cardillo -   Just Being Audrey
Margo Glantz -   Conversaciones trasatlánnticas: La profundidad de lo superficial
Margo Glantz -   De la voz de los autores: lecturas breves
Maria Duenas -   The Time In Between
María Dueñas -   El tiempo entre costuras
María Rosa Lojo -   Bosque de ojos
Mario Andrés Moreno -   Foro Cuentas Claras: aprenda a manejar su dinero
Mark Childress -   Georgia Bottoms
Mark Kalesniko -   Freeway
Mark Kurlansky -   Battle Fatigue
Mark Kurlansky -   Hank Greenberg: A Hero Who Didn't Want to Be One
Mark Kurlansky -   What?
Marlon James -   The Book Of Night Women
Martha Medeiros -   For a de Mim/Outside Myself
Martha Southgate -   The Taste of Salt
Mary Alice Monroe -   The Butterfly's Daughter
Mary L. Zamore -   The Sacred Table: Creating a Jewish Food Ethic
Mary Stanton -   Angel Condemned (A Beaufort & Company Mystery)
Mat Johnson -   Pym
Maureen Seaton -   Sinead O'Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds
Maurice Ferré -   Panel: Racismo en la Cuba actual
Maya Islas -   Indómitas al sol. Cinco poetas cubanas en NY
Megan McDonald -   Judy Moody and Stink series
Meghan O'Rourke -   The Long Goodbye:  A Memoir
Melissa Boyajian -   Lies of the Heart
Michael Bitz -   Manga High: Literacy, Identity, and Coming of Age in an Urban High School
(Harvard Education Press) and When Commas Meet Kryptonite: Classroom Lessons from the
Comic Book Project (Teachers College Press
Michael Connors -   Splendor of Cuba
Michael Haskins -   Free Range Institution
Michael Hettich -   I'm the One with the Blue Cap On by Jeffrey Knapp
Michael Hettich -   The Animals Beyond Us
Michael Kupperman -   Mark Twain's Autobiography: 1910-2010
Michael Moore -   Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life
Michael Morris
Michael Ondaatje -   The Cat's Table
Mireya Mayor -   Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey From NFL Cheerleader to National
Geographic Explorer
MK Reed -   Americus
Nadja Sailesman -   Teacher/School of Comics
Nancy Álvarez -   Nancy, ¿qué hago?
Nancy Holder -   Damned (Crusade series)
Nathan Larson -   The Dewey Decimal System
Neil de la Flor -   Sinead O'Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds
Neil Plakcy -   Mahu Blood
Nell Irvin Painter -   The History of White People
Nelson George -   The Plot Against Hip Hop
Néstor Díaz de Villegas -   Cuna del pintor desconocido
Nicole Krauss -   Great House
Nicole Mary Kelby -   White Truffles in Winter
Norma Watkins -   The Last Resort: Taking the Mississippi Cure
Opal Adisa -   Painting Awat Regrets
Orlando Rossardi -   The City of Possible Unity
P.J. Parrish -   The Killing Song
Pablo Medina -   The Man Who Wrote on Water
Pat MacEnulty -   Wait Until Tomorrow: A Daughter's Memoir
Patricia Engel -   Vida
Patricia Intriago -   Dot
Patricia Poleo -   Fugitiva
Paul Buhle -   Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land
Paul Farmer -   Haiti After the Earthquake
Paul Levine -   Lassiter
Pedro Corzo -   Cuba: Desplazados y pueblos cautivos
Peter Filkins -   Panorama
Peter Godwin -   The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
Peter Selgin -   Confessions of a Left-Handed Man
Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza -   Entre dos aguas
Quing Yi -   Chinese Author Delegation
Ramabai Espinet -   The Swinging Bridge (novel) and Nuclear Seasons (poetry)
Randall Kennedy -   The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama
Presidency
Randall Robinson -   Makeda
Raquel Rabade Roque -   The Cuban Kitchen:  500 Simple, Stylish and Flavorful Recioes
Raúl Eduardo Chao -   Jimaguayú
Ravi Shankar -   Deepening Groove
Ricardo Cortes -   Go the F**k to Sleep
Ricardo Cravo Albin -   Vinicius De Moraes
Richard Friedman -   The Bible Now
Richard Graham -   Government Issue:  Comicxs for the People, 1940s-2000s
Ridley Pearson -   Kingdom Keepers IV: Power Play
River Jordan -   Praying for Strangers: An Adventure of the Human Spirit
Robert K. Massie -   Catherine the Great
Robert Leleux -   The Living End: A Family Memoir of Forgetting and Forgiving
Robert Olen Butler -   A  Small Hotel:  A Novel
Robert Pinsky -   New Jersey Noir
Robert Sabuda -   Chanukah Lights
Robert Venditti -   The Homeland Directive
Rodolfo Martinez Sotomayor -   The City of Possible Unity
Rodrigo de la Luz -   The City of Possible Unity
Rodrigo Hasbún -   El lugar del cuerpo
Rolando Tarajano -   Sexo Salvaje
Rosalind Brackenbury -   Becoming George Sand
Rosanne Cash -   Composed: A Memoir
Rose Lewis -   Orange Peel's Pocket
Rosemary Harris -   Slugfest
Roy Peter Clark -   HELP! FOR WRITERS: 210 Solutions to theProblems Every Writer Faces
Rubí Arana -   The City of Possible Unity
Russell Banks -   Lost Memory of Skin
S.J. Rozan -   New Jersey Noir
Sam Barry -   Rock Bottom Remainders
Sandra Balzo -   Running On Empty
Sandra Beasley -   Don't Kill The Birthday Girl:  Tales From an Allergic Life
Sandra Beasley -   I Was The Jukebox: Poems
Sandra Gutierrez -   The New Southern-Latino Table
Sandra Rodriguez Barron -   Stay With Me: A Novel
Sarah Dessen -   What Happened to Goodbye
Sarah Glidden -   How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less
Scott Turow -   Rock Bottom Remainders
Selwyn Ryan
Sen. Robert Graham -   Keys to the Kingdom
Senator George McGovern -   What it Means To Be A Democrat
Sergio Ramírez -   Conversaciones trasatlánticas: El complicado arte del cuento
Sergio Ramírez -   La fugitiva
Seth S -   The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists
Shajen Joy Aziz -   Discover the Gift
Shara McCallum -   This Strange Land
Sharon Potts -   Someone's Watching
Siddhartha Deb -   The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India
Silvia Núñez del Arco -   Hay una chica en mi sopa
Stephanie Leduc -   Les aventures de Titi Krapouti et Cie
Sterling Watson -   Fighting in the Shade
Steve Inskeep -   Instant City:Life and Death in Karachi
Steve Sem-Sandberg -   The Emperor of Lies
Sunny Chen -   Mona Lisa Eclipsing (A Novel of the Monere)
Susan Briante -   Utopia Minus
Susan Orlean -   Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
T.M. Shine -   Nothing Happens Until It Happens to You
Tasha Alexander -   A Crimson Warning (Lady Emily series)
Tayari Jones -   Silver Sparrow
Tea' Obreht -   The Tiger's Wife
Teresita Herrera Muiña -   The City of Possible Unity
Terry Walters -   Clean Start
Thierry Labrosse -   Ab Irato
Tim Dorsey -   When Elves Attack: A Joyous Christmas Greeting from the Criminal Nutbars of
the Sunshine State
Todd Zuniga -   Literary Death Match
Tom Angleberger -   Darth Paper Strikes Back: An Origami Yoda Book
Tom Franklin -   Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: A Novel
Tom Hayden -   Panel: 50th Anniversary of Port Huron
Tom Lichtenheld -   E-mergency!
Tommy Greenwald -   Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading
Travis Denton -   The Burden of Speech
Vera Brosgol -   Anya's Ghost
Verene Shepherd -   Livestock, Sugar & Slavery: Contested Terrain in Colonial Jamaica
Vicente Molina Foix -   Conversaciones trasatlánticas: La literatura en el cine
Vicente Molina Foix -   De la voz de los autores: lecturas breves
Victoria Griffith -   The Fabulous Flying Machines of Alberto Santos-Dumont
Victoria Ruiz Labrit -   Panel:Racismo en la Cuba actual
Vijay Dr. Vad -   Stop Pain:
Wayne Wiegand -   Florida Book Awards Panel Moderator
Wilfredo Guibert -   Panel: Racismo en la Cuba actual
Will Potter -   Green is the New Red
Will Potter -   Green is the New Red
William Kennedy -   Chango's Beads and Two-Toned Shoes
Yang Lianke -   Chinese Author Delegation
Yu Hua -   China in Ten Words
Zhu Wen -   Chinese Author Delegation

Marcus Garvey's Courage




I've often wondered about Marcus Garvey's courage. In the face of the most implacable enemy, he maintained his poise. Two of my favorite quotes from Marcus Garvey are "Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences," and "If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life." Marcus Garvey believed in the strength of the individual and for Black women and men to be the creators of their destiny. In his essay, "Self Initiative," he explores the religious dimension of his seeming fearlessness.


Lesson 14

Self Initiative

Every man is on his own responsibility in life.

Nature never made anyone dually, but singly, therefore you have your sin{g}le responsibility.

The purpose of life is to live fully—hence the single life must be complete and in fact it is so with every man.  Hence, it is the duty of every man to fall back on himself for what he wants.

The use of all the faculties of man is necessary for his own protection.  He always has a reserve of self expression and self action upon which to fall to protect and defend himself.  He must, therefore, develop his faculties to do things thoroughly for himself and first rely upon himself in initiating all these things that may conduce to his personal well being.

Whatsoever he wants to do should first come from himself, as he s{h}ould best know what is best for himself.

Advice may be helpful, but only to the extent that you have reason and jud{g}ement enough to see the value of the advice, otherwise it may be harmful.  Very few persons, if any, who advi{s}e others—do so completely honestly, but generally with a motive for which the individual must pay the price, whatsoever that price may be.

The best individual policy, therefore, should be that the individual develop in himself or herself the courage to do things on his or her own account, counting always the cost in benefit or bad results.

The person who fails to be true to himself in taking the initiative to do things for himself will ultimately find out that he or she has been a “sucker” for others.  Always surround yourself with the talent of being able to do by yourself, so as not to be too dependent.  A person who has to depend on others, is not himself or herself, but the subject of others.  A subject or a medium is apt to break under the influence of the controlling factor, as for instance a hypnotist who has a controlling factor may so hypnotise his subject as to cause the subject to lose his or her mind.  Try, therefore, never to be the subject mentally of a factor, for a factor may destroy your opportunity of self-reliance and self-initiative.


Always try to help yourself, and only when you are completely satisfied that you have not the ability, the knowledge the developed character and strength to do for yourself, should you call anyone to help you, and when you ask others to help you over anything, be sure that they are your very, very, very good friends or relatives because if the thing you ask them to help you out of, or what may be {of} value to you, and would be of value to others, they may take the value for themselves, and all that you will get for falling in someone else to do something for you that you should do for yourself is disappointment, and the sad experience of how bad man is to rob his fellows of his rights.  Anything on earth that is of value to you is of interest to the other person, so if you have a good idea, try to develop it yourself and master it yourself, before you ask help, for you will have at least to share the results at the best with those who help you.

FEAR GOD AND KNOW NO OTHER FEAR

There is a God.

No man can say there is no God, because no man is like God.  Man is limited in his intelligence at the most and man knows how insufficient he is between life and death—that he is born without his knowledge and dies without his will or wish; when his birth and death must logically and naturally be controlled by somebody else.

It could not be man because man is always man whether he be a big man or small man.  So power that gives birth and causes death must be greater than man’s power.  Whatsoever that power is, it must be an absolute power.

Some men callit by different names but all mean the same thing and it is God.  When man, therefore, says there is no God, he is a fool for he is not as great as God.

Join no man in saying there is no God, and join no man in saying he is God for it is blasphemy.

Fear God, but love God.  If you love God, you need not fear God, for God is with you , and you are a part of him in your goodness.

You fear God only when you are conscious of being evil or wicked.

You love God and work with God whilst you are good.  There is nothing in this world that you should fear otherwise, for everything in the world is subject to you as man.  Never fear man but under{st}and man, so as to escape the wrath of man and master man.  Man is vicious, man is wicked, but you must know that he is.  By knowing that he is, you are able to handl{e} him without fearing him.

Meet the stare of man with your stare, never cringe before the stare of man, otherwise he masters you.

Develop courage enough, character enough, boldness enough, self-confidence enough, to look any man in the face and hold your ground; for the first time  you take your eyes off him because of his stare, he conquers you because you are unprepared.

Look him straight in the eye; keep him covered with your eye, and let him bow and walk off, not you.  This is the way man conquers the lion or a wild beast, by staring it in the eye; the moment he takes off his eye, the beast will spring upon him.

The daring look of man conquers man.  The self-confidence of man conquers man.  The stron{g} character of man conquers man.

The conqueror is the fellow with the boldest and longest stare.  He hypnotizes his victim and walks over him like a worm.

Never be a worm.  To be in this position, try never to be obligated, for if you are obligated to a man, you cannot stare him to obedience you will have to bow before him because he has a grip over you.

Try then to be free from all obligations to any man and thus be always yourself.  God is pleased when man lifts himself to his true position in his kingdom of earth and Heaven.

Look to God, ask him for strength, ask him for courage in righteousness, and you will be able to battle in the world of men.

Don’t ask him for wealth, but ask him for wisdom, as Solomon did, and he will open up to you the greater knowledge of goodness, if you are good in your approach to him through prayer for wisdom.

If you ask God for wisdom and understanding, you have everything else because with wisdom and understanding you will be able to take care of yourself.  Therefore, never pray to {G}od for particular things{,} for individual things.  He has already given all that is necessary for your existence in creation and has placed you as Lord and Master over them, then why worry him in further prayer and for these things?

It is a waste of time, it is annoying, it is disgusting to God, if God can be disgusted.  Seek ye first wisdom and understanding and all life will unfurl itself to you through God.

The mind and the soul are the receptacles of understanding and wisdom.  Clease them with protection and approach the source who giveth them, and you shall be eternally blest.

The Angels of Heaven are the good spirits from earth and the other planets who have passed through their probation of original life.

No man on earth is an angel.  The angels are spirits, not men.




From The Course of African Philosophy, ed . Tony Martin. Dover: Majority Press, 198


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Exonerate Marcus Garvey

To be delivered to President Barack Obama


September 28, 2011

Author Event: Lynne Barrett Reads from Magpies



October 1, 2011
Books & Books
265 Aragon Avenue
Coral Gables, FL


Start: 7:00 pm

In Magpies (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, $17.95), Lynne Barrett's characters move through the past decade's glitter and darkness. From the Internet's fragmented pages to a gossip columnist's sweet poison to an ABCs of a hurricane season, these stories explore story forms and storytelling as a means of connection, betrayal, and survival for characters who learn, sometimes too late, the value of what's grasped and what's lost.

Reception (6:30), reading (7:00), and celebration of the publication of Magpies, Lynne Barrett's third book of short stories.

"Lynne Barrett belongs in the top tier of short-story writers in America today. Her unforgettable characters, poker-face wit, and sly plots make for an intensely enjoyable experience."
—Kelly Cherry, author of The Woman Who

"It is entirely impossible to predict what you’re going to get when you start a Lynne Barrett story: a taut tale of adultery and murder, a wry evocation of romance among the dot.com bubble, a gossip columnist who spits toads. What you do know is that you’ll keep reading—for the vibrant prose, the keen insights, and the remarkable depth of feeling. Magpies is a stone cold triumph".
—Steve Almond, author of Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life



About Lynne Barrett

Lynne Barrett's short story collection, The Secret Names of Women, was a Book Sense pick of the American Booksellers' Association. It includes "Elvis Lives," winner of the Edgar Allan Poe award of the Mystery Writers of America, and "Beauty," awarded the best short story prize at the Moondance International Film Festival. A new story appears in A Dixie Christmas, published by Algonquin. She is also the author of The Land of Go and co-editor of the anthology Birth: A Literary Companion. Lynne teaches in the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing at Florida International University and lives in Miami with her husband and son.

September 27, 2011

"The Power of the Diaspora" Premieres in Barbados.




Dr Keith Nurse is Director of the Shridath Ramphal Center at UWI, and Chair of CaribbeanTales Worldwide Distribution. His  ground-breaking documentary "Forward Home" about the economic power of the Caribbean Diaspora,  had its World Premiere in Toronto earlier month at the CaribbeanTales 2011 Film Showcase. It will have its Caribbean premiere tonight, at the Olympus Cinemas in Barbados.


Diaspora tourism significant to Caribbean tourism

By RON FANFAIR
(Reprinted from Share Newspaper. Photo by Bevan Springer)

The results of groundbreaking research on Diaspora tourism and the significant economic power it wields have been made into a documentary that had its world premier screening last week at the opening night of the sixth annual Caribbean Tales Film Festival at Harbourfront Centre.

Forward Home sheds light on the conclusions of a two-year project by economist Dr. Keith Nurse and other University of the West Indies professors who studied four Caribbean countries and overseas communities in which there are large concentrations of nationals from those countries.

The links were Guyana and Toronto, Jamaica and London, the Dominican Republic and New York and Suriname and The Netherland Antilles.

The research project title was Strategic Opportunities in Caribbean Migration.

"We now have empirical data to back up what we have always known anecdotally and that is Diaspora tourism is a significant component of Caribbean tourism," said England-born and Trinidad & Tobago-raised Nurse who is the 40-minute documentary executive producer. "In addition to looking at the impact of the Diaspora community on tourism in the region and the brain drain, we also looked at how people have been utilizing the movement of Caribbean professionals to advance the transfer of knowledge and the growth of intellectual property as a provision of services.

"In effect, the purpose of the research was to look at the relationship between global cities and Caribbean economies. What we found was that the Diaspora tourism economy is multi-faceted in that people come for educational, medical, festival and heritage events and not just leisure. The Diaspora tourism is not a monolithic construct and it also links into other key sectors like telecommunications, travel, shipping, media and a range of other key sectors which we found were critical for the development of economies in the Caribbean.

"Coming out of the research, we are trying to emphasize that there are investments that entrepreneurs are engaged in both in the Diaspora and back home to facilitate this trade and what we need to be doing is strategically looking at how we can expand this trade."


The Ottawa-based International Development Research Centre funded the research project and collaborated with the Shridath Ramphal Centre for International Law, Policy and Services at the UWI Cave Hill campus in Barbados to commission the film.


The findings of the study will also appear in the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal.

"We are gratified by the relationship we have had with Canada in this process and it is for that reason that we are here to launch the documentary," said Nurse who is the Shridath Ramphal Centre director and chair of Caribbean Tales Worldwide Distribution (CWTD) that aims to match content with buyers.

Nurse, who graduated with his first degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1986, said there is a plethora of Caribbean stories and a burgeoning regional audiovisual sector.

"It's however one thing to tell a story and quite another to actually produce the content," he said. "That's why this distributing mechanism is essential in that it will help to get that content monetized and into the market spaces. That is what we have been missing...We need to create more market-ready content. There is a traditional notion that if you produce good content, the market will come to it.

"We are flipping the framework and saying let's figure out what is the market first and then we could go ahead and create content that can be directed at that particular market. Most of the regional filmmakers are floundering largely because their product is not formatted in the right way for the specific market. The broadcast, academic and mobile markets all have very targeted requirements and so if you produce first without understanding what the market needs are, your product will most likely not get picked up."

CWTD produced the Toronto Film Showcase & Market Access program that runs alongside the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) which ends on Saturday. The event showcases the creativity of Caribbean filmmakers at a major film festival and connects them with industry specialists, potential partners, funders and business strategists in an intensive three-day training program.

September 24, 2011

100 Thousand Poets for Change: Pembroke Pines



Here's one of the poems I read at 100 Thousand Poets for Change in Pembroke Pines, Florida


Letter from Marcus Garvey
London, 9 June 1940

When I was in the Atlanta Federal Prison
I chanted through the silence, "Keep cool,
keep cool," For I didn't want to see twisted
bodies ripening on the flowering dogwood.

Or when I emerged from the caverns
of the Spanish Town District Prison,
the children hurled stones at my head,
like I was some lame poet,
and even after my first betrayal
when Amy brawled with a Judas,
you ignored me and said I made us
"a laughingstock to the world."

I took it because I knew you were blind
to your own beauty, that you could be seduced
by weak-kneed hypocrites who would call me
"a half-wit, low-grade moron." I took it all.

But what has me choking on my words,
is not the asthma, the shortness of breath
that has slowed my heart, my body
that will be taken away soon-soon
by the whirlwind--what's left me mute
is the broken faith of my brothers
and sisters, scattered like goats
on a far hillside where my father lies
buried under the broad leaves of the breadfruit;
his bones warmer than these white,
cold pages swirling in my doorway


"Letter from Marcus Garvey" by Geoffrey Philp

The date of the poem is important. It is one day before Garvey died in London after suffering a second cerebral hemorrhage while reading the inaccurate news reports of his death, "Garvey dies in London."

Marcus Garvey died before he could clear his name of the fraudulent charges that led to his imprisonment. Therefore, we are petitioning President Barack Obama to exonerate Marcus Mosiah Garvey and to clear his good name.

Here is the link to sign the petition:
Short URL: http://wh.gov/gW7


SIGNATURES NEEDED BY OCTOBER 22, 2011 TO REACH GOAL OF 5,000

5,000

September 23, 2011

Afro-Beat Journal, Issue 2: Live!



Afro-Beat Journal, edited by Jacqueline Bishop, is now online

Enjoy the bounty!

Feature Articles

"Pan-African Rhythms: Exploring the Cultural and Political Influences of Randy Weston’s Music" by Jason Squinobal
"Last of the Octogenarians (?): An Encounter with Elder Steve Rhodes of Nigeria" by Oyebade Dosunmu

Poetry

"Ayiti: UnCommon Beauty" by Donna Aza Weir-Soley
"We Were Terrestrial Once, Maybe" by Marion Bethel
"A Poem in Two Directions or How the Northeast Speaks to Me of You" by Ana-Maurine Lara
"A Woman’s Season" by Jacqueline Johnson
"Memory" by Keisha-Gaye Anderson
"Matie* Shall Not Conquer" by Tanya Shirley
"Debris" by Marcia Douglas
"Travels With A Daughter" by Alecia McKenzie

Prose

"Mother Ramsey" by Dadland Maye
"Heart Health" by Geoffrey Philp
"After The Storm" by Diana McCaulay
"SUGAR" by Sharon Leach
"Very High Science" by Hazel D. Campbell

Multimedia

"African Rhythms, Roots, Culture - Randy Weston in conversation with Willard Jenkins" by AfrobeatRadio
"Pau Ferro" by Sérgio Soares
"The Voices of Haiti: A Photo-Poetic Rendering" by Opal Palmer Adisa
"Tales of Jamaica: An Interview With Photographer Robin Farquharson" by Robin Farquharson

"24 hrs 2 Guinea" by Cynthia James


24 hrs 2 Guinea

the rosewood dawn recedes, thin laced with
milk-heart signatures;  the ice below thaws;
brown strangled tufts raise pickanini heads
in cracks of sidewalks

bees are not yet out, but ants climb up and down
viburnum stalks (flush now with scented clusters
where scarce a month ago this sweet lime hedge
was briar patched with thorns),

shivering white petals, antennae digging deep down
in  the calyx, feeler-ing  the nippled berries hardening
at the cup;  it’s Saturday, mid-May exactly;
and all is good.

at broadview,  where I board, the streetcar driver leaps out
to single-point a crowbar switch, the witch-broom trailing,
pulling us suspended on the centre rail, backwards
to Main from Carlton.

and I go past the diasporic new-world united nations
line-up, urging cringing baby bok choy, Ch-u-ut!
to stand up to the threatening fangs
of blood red dragon fruit;


at little India, watch the wind float the sari
of the woman with the nakpul and the red dot,
ripple damask drapes and Himalayan pelts
without a touch;

glide over earthen jugs, brass vases, shiny cooking pots,
guarded slant-eyed by smiling amulets of Durga, Kali, Shakti,
juggling creation and destruction in multiples of even hands;
mid-May exactly, a Saturday,

and all is quiet;
but time is a chameleon, every so often confounding near and distant; 
today I’m the Guinea woman, flying three, four, five hundred years,
reeled back  before my time across the skein of difference, 

a frothy wake of spume
dribbling down my chin like soap suds, splashed up from Monday
morning white clothes wash, spores popping as the scum dries,
under the dingy ochred outer circle of a cappuchino sky;

we’ve run off track
without point-catch in a modern city mapped on ancient legends; 
a heart shakes off its smouldering ash, and there’s Akan Oroonoko,
trussed up like a suckling pig, puffing on a pipe, taunting his tormentors.

eyes kindle hard-stare accusation;
otherwise, sudoku and the 24- hour paper occupy; meanwhile
brown babies nonchalantly chatter, mocking this old street car,
pulling me, Guinea woman, back to a different place and time 




About Cynthia James




Cynthia James is a Trinidadian, living for the past 3 years in Toronto. She writes poetry and fiction and her work can be found in publications such as CallalooCaribbean Writer and The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse
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September 22, 2011

Exonerate Marcus Garvey: Petition on the White House Site



The time to act is now!

The White House has created an online tool to petition President Obama's administration. In order to act on the petition, the White House must receive 5000 signatures.

I have already created the petition on the White House site and I will need your help to reach the threshold of 5000 signatures.

Please sign the petition today and pass along to anyone who is interested in the cause of justice for Marcus Garvey.

Here is the link to sign the petition:
Short URL: http://wh.gov/gW7

Save and Share this URL: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/exonerate-marcus-garvey-garvey-did-not-commit-any-alleged-criminal-acts-he-was-imprisoned-his/QxjH0pWV

SIGNATURES NEEDED BY OCTOBER 22, 2011 TO REACH GOAL OF 5,000

5,000






Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Journal of West Indian Literature



Michael A. Bucknor (University of the West Indies-Mona) and Ian Bethell-Bennett (College of the Bahamas) extend an invitation to submit articles for a special issue of the Journal of West Indian Literature for publication in April 2012. The issue will focus on “Masculinities in Caribbean Literature and Culture.”  The date for submitting articles is October 31, 2011, but the co-editors encourage potential contributors to send work ahead of the deadline.

Description: In spite of the growing significance of issues of masculinities in gender and other interdisciplinary studies, publications on the role of masculinities in Caribbean culture have been modest in literary and cultural studies. Curdella Forbes points out that it was not until the appearance of works “such as Belinda Edmondson’s Making Men (1999)… that major discussions of the subject appeared” in Caribbean literary criticism (From Nation to Diaspora 2).  In Anglophone Caribbean cultural studies, it is primarily music that has attracted gendered analyses that focus on masculinities. While there have been some discussions linking masculinities and sexualities, masculinities and education, and masculinities and socialization, and there have been inter-disciplinary collections of essays that engage masculinities, the range of artistic modes that contribute to masculinities discourse is still to be explored.

This Special Issue of the Journal of West Indian Literature invites multiple readings of gender that underscore the role of masculinities in a range of literary and cultural expressions in the Caribbean.  Against the background of studies of the social construction, performance, interrogation and political posturing of hegemonic masculinities, we ask for explorations of some leading questions: Have the depictions of male characters changed over the last five decades or so from Naipaul, Lamming, and Lovelace to such contemporary writers as Junot Díaz, Kei Miller, Anton Nimblett, and what ideological agendas have been served by these depictions? Is there a relationship between migration/diaspora and revised Caribbean masculinities?  Of what significance is the geo-political world of the family, the community, work and leisure to the construction of Caribbean masculinities? To what extent has the role of the Caribbean male been altered by modernity and postmodernity, late-capitalism, late-postcolonialism, globalisation or neo-liberalism? These and similar questions are issues this JWIL publication endeavours to highlight.

Although JWIL is a literary journal, the editors encourage submissions from all areas of cultural production: literature, film, music, visual arts, theatre (including forms of popular culture) and any field of study that examines masculinities in Caribbean cultural and artistic expression.  They also strongly encourage the submission of comparative work between the Anglophone and other linguistic groups of the Caribbean or between different modes of cultural production.

The editors invite papers of 20 to 25 double-spaced typed pages in English and formatted to the MLA style guide. A copy of each paper should be sent by October 31, 2011, by e-mail, to one of the co-editors:

Dr. Ian Bethell-Bennett (School of English Studies, College of the Bahamas, Oakes Field, P. O. Box N 4912, Nassau, The Bahamas) at bethellbennett@gmail.com

Dr. Michael A. Bucknor (Department of Literatures in English, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston 7, Jamaica) at michael.bucknor@uwimona.edu.jm

Painting from Ebony G. Patterson’s series “Faces from the Dancehall”

Via http://repeatingislands.com/2011/09/20/call-for-papers-special-issue-of-the-journal-of-west-indian-literature/

September 21, 2011

We've Got An App For That!



I've just created an Android App for this blog. You can download it here:




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