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February 2007
The Big Read, Zora Neale Hurston, and me
You’ve may have heard about the Big Read Initiative of the NEA (see the Big Read blog), which creates community events around the US surrounding the reading of a single book. Seems like a worthy cause, given the initiative’s impetus, the 2004 Reading at Risk survey, which documented the decline of reading in American culture.
One of the authors featured in the Big Read program is Zora Neale Hurston, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Mule Bone, Dust Tracks on Road, and Seraph on the Sewanee, among other great works.
Where do I figure in this tale of hope for literature? I built the just launched “official” Zora Neale Hurston Website!
My desire to do that sort of thing, literary oriented Websites, is why I named my company “Sonnet Media” so I’m delighted to have been involved in this project.
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Such a long time since I have read any Muldoon. I will look for that WZ poem. Thanks.
– genevieve
on “Muldoon on Colbert”
I love Ish (not least for his continued advocacy for children of war around the world) and Open Book TV. And of course Madiba is always great. I think I could have done with fewer mystical echoing flutes-of-sadness though.
About the ICC: such an important struggle, and so anathema to the idea of American Exceptionalism we are all raised on. That, along with the debate over humanitarian intervention, look to be the defining international issues of our time exactly because they cannot be reduced to simple dichotomies, or even unambiguous moral stances. By which I mean to say I’m looking forward to the film.
– Dustin
on “More Connections”
Thanks, Sven. Who knew I’d be blog of the week somewhere, anywhere… Nice to know.
– Bud Parr
on “New Words Without Borders: Writing from Pakistan”
