June 3rd, 2008 | by Ferentz | published in Events, authors
Please Join The Bronx Museum of the Arts For …
Wednesday June 4, 2008
Book Signing With Felicia Pride & Ferentz Lafargue
5:30 – 7:30pm
Film Screening: “Hug”
“Hug” Written and Directed by Khary Jones
“Hug” tells the story of Asa and Drew, a manager and a talented musician on their way to the meeting that could make Drew a [...]
January 23rd, 2008 | by richlouis | published in authors, writing
Some years ago, Tom Wolfe called on novelists to abandon the cul-de-sac of modern “literary” fiction, which he saw as self-absorbed, thumb-sucking gamesmanship, and instead to revive social realism, to take up as a subject the colossal, astonishing, and terrible pageant of contemporary America. I doubt he imagined that one of the best responses to this call would be a TV program, but the boxed sets blend nicely on a bookshelf with the great novels of American history.
January 12th, 2008 | by richlouis | published in announcement, authors, mixed-media, painting, photography, video, writing
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August 28th, 2007 | by richlouis | published in authors, writing
Photo by Ted Partin from New York Magazine
While it’s not a rare occurrence to get a new book from my favorite Haitian writer Danticat, it’s been 11 years (it’s been that long and i was just finishing college back then) since Junot Diaz dropped his book of critically-acclaimed short stories, Drown, and the latest issue [...]
August 20th, 2007 | by richlouis | published in announcement, authors, writing
In his words:
All writers are invited.
It may not suit all genres, but here
http://50yearsfromnow.blogspot.com
Spaceships. Jet packs. Laser guns. No. Fifty years from now, the
future will still be shaped by the mundane, the stupid, and the petty,
living side by side with the Big Ideas. Dirty, shining, poor,
glorious, filthy, and wonderful. 50.YFN is where we tell our future’s
story, [...]