Category: literary life

I just found out that my friend Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has made the 2003 O. Henry awards for her story “The American Embassy,” which appeared in the Canadian journal Prism International. You can read an excerpt of the story here.

Here are a few places where you can read the writing of the lovely and amazing Ngozi Adichie: “Half of a Yellow Sun” in the current issue of Zoetrope All-Story (it originally appeared in Lit Pot.) “Heart Is Where the Home Was,” a non-fiction piece for Topic Magazine. And of course the novel Purple Hibiscus, which comes out in October.

Wole Soyinka describes adapting and setting up the satirical play “Ubu Roi” by Alfred Jarry, and its relevance for a Zimbabwe ruled by Robert Mugabe (and, indeed, for the Uganda of Idi-Amin or the Zaire of Mobutu or, or, or…)

Looks like Esquire reversed its decision to have Jayson Blair do a review of “Shattered Glass.”

My pal Maryanne Stahl’s new book, The Opposite Shore, is now available, so order your copy now. Oh, and here’s an excerpt.

The Guardian has a profile of Alexander Trocchi, the beat author whose novel Young Adam was made into a movie that caused quite a stir at Cannes this year. I really shouldn’t use two relative clauses back to back like that.

Tim Pears picks ten “revolutionary” novels in this Guardian piece. He picked political novels, he says, beause “a novel can’t change the world. But a great novel opens the mind like nothing else. And when the mind opens, so too does the future”
What should/shouldn’t have made the list? Discuss.