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Interview: Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes

Published on : 7 August, 2012 Published by : K. Imani Tennyson

This past June I got the pleasant experience to meet and work with one of my favorite authors – Tananarive Due. Later that same week I got double the experience when she invited her husband, Steven Barnes, to talk with us about sexuality, race, slavery in a seminar. Both are […]

Devil's Wake by Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes

Published on : 7 August, 2012 Published by : K. Imani Tennyson

Devil’s Wake Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes Atria Books ISBN-10: 1451617003 — ♦ — I’m going to say this right from the start – I am not a fan of zombies. They scare the you-know-what out of me! Of the three big supernatural monsters (Vampires, Werewolves, & Zombies) the latter scare the […]

On this day, October 20, in 1958, actor Viggo Mortensen was born in New York City. Although we could press the literary connection by pointing out that he is a published poet, we are really celebrating his birthday because, well, he’s Viggo Mortensen, who, among other roles, stepped in last minute to play Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, who chipped his tooth while filming and wanted to superglue it back in so they could keep shooting, who deflected a live dagger in a memorable fight scene, who campaigned to have Aragorn speak more Elvish in the films, who adopted the two horses he rode in the films because he had bonded with them… Today, he turns 62.

On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.

Interview: Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes

Devil's Wake by Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes

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