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1 month ago | 
wypr.org | Tom Hall |Jamaica Kincaid |Percival L. Everett
Tom talks with Kellie Carter Jackson, the author of We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance. Kellie is recommending:A Small Place by Jamaica KincaidJames by Percival Everett
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Jamaica Kincaid
My earliest reading memory My mother taught me to read from a book she borrowed from the St Johns, Antigua public library. It was a biography of Louis Pasteur, I suppose to make me understand something about him. She told me the milk I drank was boiled, and the whole process was because of him. I must have been three then; by the time I was three and a half, I could read anything. My favourite book growing up I didn’t have lots of books growing up.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
primarytimes.co.uk | Jamaica Kincaid |Kara Walker
Explore plants, fruits, and flowers and find your inner child, as Primary Times hears from award-winning author and essayist Jamaica Kincaid
Get ready to embark on a unique journey as renowned novelist Jamaica Kincaid explores the plant world in ‘An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children’.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Jamaica Kincaid
Welcome to NewsBreak, an open platform where diverse perspectives converge. Most of our content comes from established publications and journalists, as well as from our extensive network of tens of thousands of creators who contribute to our platform. We empower individuals to share insightful viewpoints through short posts and comments.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
harpers.org | Jamaica Kincaid
From God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin, edited by Hilton Als, which was published in March by Dancing Foxes Press and the Brooklyn Museum. I met James Baldwin when I was about nineteen years old. I was a servant in a household. He came to that house as a party guest the night Richard Nixon was elected. I didn’t know who he was. I was just really someone off the boat. I had arrived two or three years earlier.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Jamaica Kincaid |Kara Walker
Two entries from a new alphabet of the colonized world, an illustrated ABC. A is for apple (Malus domestica), a member of the rose family (Rosaceae), famously thought to be the fruit the serpent gave to Eve and Adam to eat. It had been the one thing they were forbidden to do, eat that fruit, and after they did they fell in love with the world around them—and understandably so, for they were in a garden.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | Jamaica Kincaid |Gazelle Mba
Elaine Potter Richardson changed her name to Jamaica Kincaid in 1973. She was 24 years old and had decided that ‘Jamaica’ was more stylish. More important, a new name would allow her to publish without attracting the attention of her mother, Annie Drew – no matter that Annie was living in Antigua and Kincaid in New York. She had been sent away from home at sixteen to work as an au pair. To punish her family, she refused to send money back.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
news.italy24.press | Jamaica Kincaid |Derek Walcott
She is certain that nothing is higher and more necessary than a poem and a poet worthy of the name, not even a great novel. This is why his cult work is the work of Derek Walcott, his entire poetics, particularly embodied in the pages of Omeros (which in Italy we read in the edition Adelphi). Omeros it is an epic poem, but written in 1990. We are centuries and centuries away from those forms, those worlds, those narratives, yet Derek Walcott has chosen to rewrite theIliad and theOdyssey Homeric.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
cbc.ca | Jamaica Kincaid |Zalika Reid-Benta
Donna Bailey Nurse recommends 2 novels with Caribbean river deity figures | CBC Radio LoadedThe Next ChapterThe Next Chapter columnist discusses books by Jamaica Kincaid and Zalika Reid-Benta. The Next Chapter columnist Donna Bailey Nurse, a Toronto-based writer and literary critic is a longtime champion of Black women writers. She stopped by The Next Chapter to recommend two novels that compliment each other, one older and one recent: Jamaica Kincaid's and Zalika Reid-Benta's River Mumma.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
powells.com | Jamaica Kincaid |Kim Hyesoon |Don Mee Choi |Fleur Jaeggy
The journey of writing Organ Meats was far from linear; it was more like the patchwork process of creating a quilt. Foraging from inherited histories, oral stories, and inspirational texts, I conceived of this novel as a vessel for collectives of women. The two girls at the center of the novel, Anita and Rainie, are haunted by a chorus of feral dogs who narrate their hungry ancestry, giving voice to generations of deferred desire. As always, I was inspired by writers in translation.
