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2013: Now What?
“Humanity is awakening. To be awake is to be aware, and a great awareness of the need to treat one another with love, compassion, respect, and acceptance has emerged on Earth over the last five or six… more →
clearskies, bluewater
Fidelity bank launches Creative Writing Blog and Literary Café Weekly Writing Competition
wrote 4 days ago: FIDELITY Bank Plc has launched the Fidelity Creative Writing Blog and Literary Café Weekly Writing C … more →
What should we be reading?
wrote 6 days ago: Cornel West on BBC Newsnight with Gavin Esler talking about race, class, empire, and his week at CRA … more →
I Held You in the Square
wrote 1 week ago: I Held You in the Square ~ Ben Okri I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself ar … more →
Writing about not writing... Or... On wanting to 'cut it'...
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wrote 1 week ago: Me… Looking remarkably carefree… Because I’m rather in the doldrums of late. Somew … more →
Pic: Library Display of Black Speculative Fiction Authors
wrote 2 weeks ago: Today, at Martin Luther King Library (in DC) there was a display featuring books by black science fi … more →
Tuesday
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide. Ben Okri … more →
Why I stopped writing on Dante (and why I may start again some time in the future)
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wrote 1 month ago: It sometimes occurs to me how odd it is that I should have spent ten years of my life working almost … more →
Two with roots that stretch to Nigeria & Ghana on 2013 British "Granta Best Young Novelists' List"
wrote 1 month ago: To those readers who might have read this since it was posted Monday, the title back then missed an … more →
Post number 1
wrote 1 month ago: Quote from Ben Okri First writing after a long while. This is quite refreshing. I’ve always li … more →
Three Books About...The Road
wrote 1 month ago: By Cath Murphy Books can be about anything – elephants, antimacassars, milk cartons – but generally … more →
SHORT OF A CENTURY
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wrote 2 months ago: The ogene of the town crier is piercing through the still night. There’s clear tragedy in the town c … more →
Ben Okri 15 March
wrote 2 months ago: Adapted from Wikipedia Ben Okri OBE FRSL, is a Nigerian poet and novelist Okri is considered one of … more →
A day at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature
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wrote 2 months ago: I enjoyed the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature so much last year I decided I was definitely g … more →
No Culture in Dubai? Come to Emirates Lit Fest. For Ben Okri.
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wrote 2 months ago: It’s no secret to anyone who knows me that I’ve been a bit starved for intellectual conv … more →
Sunday - A Trinity of Influence(s?)
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wrote 2 months ago: Carpe Diem … more →
Here. Now.
wrote 2 months ago: I sip my morning tea and nibble on fried bread at a place around the corner from my new guesthouse ( … more →
WWW_Wednesdays 20th Feb 2013
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wrote 3 months ago: It’s truly incredible how time flies when the reading’s good To play along, just answer … more →
starbook.
wrote 3 months ago: He felt as if he hadn’t slept because he spent all night wandering through the world looking f … more →
The Famished Road – Ben Okri
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wrote 3 months ago: Aaaaaah! Finally done! I was beginning to think I never would be At 574 pages, this is not the longe … more →
