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A Pakistani-American Family Is Caught in Some Cultural Cross-Fire
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/theater/09domestic.html September 9, 2009 By LAURIE GOODSTEIN For Khulsoom and Salman, hard-working immigrant Muslims from Pakistan, life in the American suburbs in t… more →
GOATMILK: An intellectual playground edited by Wajahat Ali
Always An Irishman ...
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Back in February 2009, poet, essayist, editor, and author, Ishmael Reed (Barack Obama and the Jim Cr … more →
be active: read a poetry book
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Remember poetry? That wonderful genre of literature where words could be fragmented to convey an emo … more →
Ishmael Reed, Flight to Canada
wrote 4 weeks ago: As I have noted more than once before, Ishmael Reed is likely my favorite living author and certainl … more →
scrub jays :: ishmael reed
wrote 2 months ago: Free as a bird You wish Grounded And cross old man Glaring from the Kitchen window As I stab my beak … more →
Blogosphere, meet Mike!
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wrote 2 months ago: Oh hey internet, remember that time I said I wanted to showcase the personalities of Trent’s E … more →
Interview: Ishmael Reed
wrote 2 months ago: (by: Chelsea Burnett) Click here for interview. … more →
For David Murray's 57th Birthday, a Jazziz Article From 2007 and a DownBeat Blindfold Test From Ten Years Ago
wrote 3 months ago: David Murray turned 57 a few days ago; he’ll be in NYC next week to present his latest project … more →
poetry club, the one i dreamt of.
wrote 3 months ago: Sometimes my dreams are interesting. I don’t know if this is at least partially because I have … more →
Mumbo Jumbo
wrote 3 months ago: Ishmael Reed, 1972 This felt like a great short story idea that became over-bloated with extraneous … more →
POEM: "Chattanooga" by Ishmael Reed (1973)
wrote 3 months ago: “Chattanooga” by Ishmael Reed, 1973 1 Some say that Chattanooga is the Old name for Look … more →
I'm Running For The Office Of Love
wrote 6 months ago: I’m running for the office of love My heart is in the ring I’m bad at making speeches So … more →
Writer v. Character
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wrote 6 months ago: The novel I am currently working on is entitled Quiet. My main character, Quincy Avalee has decided … more →
October Reading
wrote 7 months ago: Here is an overview of a few of the books I’ve read in the past month. Walter Mosley – Fortunate Son … more →
Looooong post, Loooots of books!
wrote 8 months ago: Yes, I’m still alive. Yes, I still read books. Yes, I am utter fail at blogging them. Sigh. And … more →
What are you even reading?
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wrote 9 months ago: I had a diaryland blog years and years ago. It was fun. I had a few friends who I knew just throu … more →
Drinking, Drugs, Sex, and Literature
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wrote 10 months ago: Must’ve been twenty-five years ago. So long ago. “You’re a wannabe poet,” he … more →
Wormholes through History
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wrote 11 months ago: I recently reread (and wrote about) Ishmael Reed’s 1972 novel Mumbo Jumbo. I probably first r … more →
Ishmael Reed and the Psychic Epidemic
wrote 11 months ago: “In times of social turblulence men like you abandon reason and fall back on Mumbo Jumbo. … more →
The SPB Q: Grad Chapter: Mark Anthony Neal
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wrote 11 months ago: The first time I “met” Professor Mark Anthony Neal he emailed me to let me know he was going to be t … more →
