The poet Emily Dickinson lived a reclusive life at her family's home in Amherst, Mass., but while she rarely went out into society, she did spend a lot of time outdoors. Dickinson loved nature and was an avid gardener, and now an exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden called Emily Dickinson's Garden: The Poetry of Flowers is putting on display a side of the poet that is little known. -- from “A Flowering Tribute to Emily Dickinson,” by Lynn Neary, NPR Website
Terry Gross talks with The Rev. Gregory Boyle, director and founder of Homeboy Industries, “the largest gang-intervention program in the country,” about his recently published memoir, Tattoos on the Heart, and Homeboy's current financial crisis.
Welcome to Stoke Newington’s first ever literary festival! From 4th to 6th June 2010 London’s historic home to radical writers, thinkers and dissidents plays host to a diverse array of today’s most interesting authors and poets. With everything from Gothic horror to comedy, poetry to sci-fi, feminism to food and drink, there’s something for everyone in the event this brilliantly diverse borough has long been waiting for.
The Althorp Literary Festival promises to be a summer event not to be missed. Taking place over the weekend of 12th and 13th June, the Festival presents an array of talks, readings and debates in some of the most beautiful rooms of Althorp House.
France
The Shakespeare and Company Literary Festival “Storytelling & Politics” June 18-20 Paris http://www.festivalandco.com/
It is always wonderful to have reason to show pride and to celebrate. Dublin Writers Festival 2010 offers the city a chance to draw strength and inspiration from the best of the nation’s contemporary writers. Our playwrights, poets, fiction and non-fiction writers, as well songwriters and composers will give voice to a living heritage that marks us as the richest of nations.
Join us for the 2010 Dundee Literary Festival as we bring together some of the most talked about names from the world of literature, journalism, philosophy and politics. We have workshops, talks, film, theatre, book signings, music and parties. Events will take place at the Dalhousie Building, Old Hawkhill, Dundee.
United States
California
3rd Annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival June 12-13 Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles http://www.mxroots.org/
The Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival is a non-competitive, annual arts festival dedicated to sharing and nurturing storytelling of the Mixed experience.
Overall, this summer’s writing workshops, agents and editors, authors, guest workshops, and talent line-up is shaping up to be our best yet! And if that isn’t enough to whet your appetite, this year’s literary festival will celebrate the literary heritage of the American South, a region as stepped in storytelling as its famous sweet tea. This year’s theme will fly under the banner ‘Crossroads: a Literary Intersection of the American South,’ and will feature Ernest Gaines, Kathryn Stockett, Nikky Finney, Randall Kenan, Ron Rash, Dorothy Allison and Richard Bausch.
Alie, Joe A. D. A new history of Sierra Leone (1990)
Beah, Ismael. A long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier (2007)
Campbell, Greg. Blood diamonds: tracing the deadly path of the world’s most precious stones (2002)
Cheney-Coker, Syl. Concerto for an exile: poems (1973)
Cheney-Coker, Syl. The graveyard also has teeth (1980)
Cheney-Coker, Syl. Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar (1990)
Cheney-Coker, Syl. Stone child, and other poems (2008)
Conton, William. The African (1960)
Cosentino, Donald. Defiant maids and stubborn farmers: tradition and invention in Mende story performance (1982)
Dixon-Fyle, Mac and Gibril Cole, editors. New perspectives on the Sierra Leone Krio (2006)
Dooling, Richard. White man’s grave: a novel (1994)
Forna, Aminatta. Ancestor stones (2006)
Forna, Aminatta. The devil that danced on the water: a daughter’s memoir of her father, her family, her country, and a continent (2002)
Fyfe, Christopher. Africanus Horton, 1835-1883, West African scientist and patriot (1972)
Gberie, Lansana. A dirty war in West Africa: the RUF and the destruction of Sierra Leone (2005)
Griffiths, Peter. The economist’s tale: a consultant encounters hunger and the World Bank (2003)
Harris, Paul. The secret keeper (2009)
Hill, Lawrence. The book of negroes (2007) (in part)
Jackson, Michael. Barawa and the ways birds fly in the sky: an ethnographic novel (1986)
Jackson, Michael. In Sierra Leone (2004)
Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. Moses, Citizen and me (2005)
Joy, Emily. Green oranges on Lion Mountain (2004)
Kamara, Mariatu, with Susan McClelland. The bite of the mango (2008)
Osagie, Iyunolu Folayan. The Amistad Revolt: memory, slavery, and the politics of identity in the United States and Sierra Leone (2000)
Palmer, Eustace and Abioseh Michael Porter. Knowledge is more than mere words: wey dehn sey? Dehn sey kapu sehns nor kapu word: a critical introduction to Sierra Leonean literature (2008)
Pybus, Cassandra. Epic journeys of freedom: runaway slaves of the American Revolution and their global quest for liberty (2006) (in part)
Stewart, Gary. Black man’s grave: letters from Sierra Leone (2007)
Stewart, Ian. Ambushed: a war reporter’s life on the line (2002)
Voeten, Teun. How de body? One man’s terrifying journey through an African war (2002)
Six years ago I dragged my wife and two small children from our cramped flat in the East End of London to live in Casablanca. We bought a rambling mansion with five courtyards, gardens and a pool in the middle of the sprawling Sidi Ghanem shantytown. It is quite the most magical spot but the learning curve has been a steep one, especially when we learned that the house was said to be infested from the floor to the rafters with wicked spirits, known as jinn. After lengthy exorcisms and endless renovations, we set about getting to know the city that had become our new home. – from “Of All the Medinas…Insider’s Guide to Casablanca,” by Tahir Shah, The Guardian
Books that could be described as 'Welsh underground novels for the Skins generation' were once scarce as chicken lips. Remember that there was no such thing as a teenager until the 50s, and that everything comes across the Severn bridge 20 years late. Add the huge hole left in Welsh literature by aspiring writers boarding trains to London and putting memories of the principality firmly behind them from the early 80s onward. Then you'll understand why some of these entries aren't strictly underground, Welsh, or aimed at the Skins generation. But you'll notice too that some of them are. These are the new guard, the brave, hip inkslingers who began cropping up with an extraordinary force in the early noughties. – from “Rachel Trezise’s Top 10 Welsh Underground Novels,” The Guardian
