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Paule Marshall’s ‘Triangular Road’ Begins in Bedford-Stuyvesant

Posted in BOOKS-SIGNINGS, COMMUNITY, tagged , on Thursday, March12, 2009 | Comments Off

Voyage of a Girl Moored in Brooklyn
By FELICIA R. LEE
Paule Marshall’s coming-of-age novel, “Brown Girl, Brownstones,” put her on the map 50 years ago with a new kind of coming-of-age story, that of a second-generation West Indian girl in Brooklyn.
 Now, at 79, she is on tour for her latest book, “Triangular Road” (Basic Civitas Books), [...]

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Sometimes One Man Can Live Two Lives

Posted in GENERAL, HARLEM, HARLEM HAPPENINGS, narmers page, tagged , , on Friday, February6, 2009 | Comments Off

Books of The Times
Sometimes One Man Can Live Two Lives
By JANET MASLIN
PASSING STRANGE
A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
By Martha A. Sandweiss
Illustrated. 370 pages. The Penguin Press. $27.95.
“Passing Strange” tells an astounding true story that would beggar most novelists’ imaginations. It exposes the bizarre secret life of a well-known historical [...]

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From the Streets to the Libraries

Posted in GENERAL, tagged , , on Thursday, October23, 2008 | Comments Off

Urban Fiction Makes Its Way From Streets to Libraries – NYTimes.com
From the Streets to the Libraries
Ruth Fremson/The New York TimesYolanda Degraff, a part-time employee, arranged books in the urban fiction area of the public library in Far Rockaway, Queens.
By ANNE BARNARDPublished: October 22, 2008
In one book, the hero spirals toward a violent death dealing drugs [...]

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