Category Archives: multicultural

Letters From the Other Side of Haiti

Posted on May 6, 2013 by

Jillayna Adamson was doing a booksigning at the Book House, a charismatic 150-year-old Gothic Revival house in Rock Hill (St. Louis), Missouri, that is literally stuffed with new and used books. The book store was recently served an eviction notice … Continue reading →

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No memoir? More on writing truth as historical fiction

Posted on April 21, 2013 by

Last week I heard Chris Bohjalian talk about Sandcastle Girls, his novel about the Armenian genocide. A year after its release, the paperback version is out, and Mr. Bohjalian is still very excited, very passionate, about the most important book he … Continue reading →

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That’s The Way It Was black history stories of segregation in St. Louis

Posted on February 10, 2013 by

February is Black History Month, so seeing Vida Goldman Prince the other night was especially fitting. She introduced her brand new book, That’s The Way It Was: Stories of Struggles, Survival and Self-Respect in Twentieth-Century Black St. Louis. She was proud of … Continue reading →

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