“Discovering Home,” a personal essay about a family gathering in Uganda, won the 2002 Caine Prize, commonly referred to as the African Booker. It moves from his discovery of the power of fiction to college in South Africa, where he started writing in earnest. It is an impressionistic memoir of the mutability of place and language, told in the first-person present so that, as readers, we are taken through his post-colonial childhood by a hyperobservant, sensitive guide. His memoir, One Day I Will Write About This Place , published this July by Graywolf Press, chronicles the multiplicity of his middle-class African childhood: home squared, we call it, your clan, your home, the nation of your origin. Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina is inexhaustible, a public intellectual very much engaged with the literary and political worlds. Red Lemonade, a Cursor Publishing Communityby Paul W. George Kimball's and John Schulian's At the Fights: American Writers on Boxingby Rochelle Feinsteinĭavid Trinidad's A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugosby Raphael Rubinstein Salomon Contemporary: 112 Greene Streetby Saul OstrowĬihan Kaan's Halal Pork and Other Storiesby Amiel Alcalay Portfolio: From Various Music For a Whileby Elena Berrioloīarbara Henning's Looking Up Harryette Mullen: Interviews on Sleeping with the Dictionary and Other Worksby Patricia Spears Jones
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