Prison Left Me Laughing: A Conversation with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o By Remo Verdickt, Emiel Roothooft

"NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’O is considered one of the leading writers on the African continent of the last 50 years. On December 31, 1977, he was arrested and spent a year in prison as an opponent of the Kenyatta dictatorship."

#NgugiWaThiongo #BlackMastodon #Writers #Literature #Language #BlackTwitter #BlackFediverse #African #LARB #Academia #Teacher #BookInTranslation #Kenya #Book #Lit #Academicchatter

"Dinner for Six" van Lu Min (vert Nicky Harman en Helen Wang) besproken in de LA Review of Books, samen met Xiaolu Guo en Yiyun Li. Een vervuilde industriewijk is 'het decor voor tedere romance – romances tussen paartjes personages, en evengoed een passie voor het proletarische leven.'
#China #literatuur #lezen #boeken #LuMin #LARB @chineseliterature
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/eating-to-live-on-yiyun-lis-the-book-of-goose-lu-mins-dinner-for-six-and-xiaolu-guos-a-lovers-discourse/

This is a great interview from the #losangelesreviewofbooks team. Colm #Tòibín is such a fantastic and articulate person.

#LARB Radio Hour: Colm Tóibín's "A Guest at the Feast"

Episode webpage: https://sites.libsyn.com/67712/colm-tibns-a-guest-at-the-feast

Media file: https://chrt.fm/track/1F8AED/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/lareviewofbooks/LARB_Podcast_041423.mp3?dest-id=276716

Fantastic conversation with #JennyLiou as part of the #LosAngelesReviewofBooks book club tonight. Can heartily recommend her poetry book #MuscleMemory and #LARB in general ❤️

"According to 'Shipwrecked', a remarkable disaster story by historian Jamin Wells,there was another driving force behind the remaking of the 19th-century littoral. Maritime disasters, a regular event on the Atlantic seaboard, 'unleashed a torrent of public and private energies that turned the coastal frontier into the modern beach,' Wells writes.

Going Coastal: On Some Recent Books About the Ecology and History of Beaches
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/going-coastal-on-some-recent-books-about-the-ecology-and-history-of-beaches via Los Angeles Review of Books #LARB