Happy Sunday


Just finished Junot Diaz's The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao a book which I highly recommend. Diaz is triumphant in grabbing the bull of history, politics and life by the horns and taming it into an engrossing tale that makes you laugh and in the end, cry. I always knew he'd come back strong after his first collection of short stories, Drown. His work makes me proud to be a writer.
Earlier this week, 60 Minutes ran a program called, The Key to Happpiness which features a segment on Danes, happiness and quality of life.
(I not only recommend taking a look at this segment, but take a moment to read the comments as well--some of them are pretty funny!)
The Los Angeles Wave published an article about Black Books and publishing entitled Extending Shelf Lives and on that note, you should definitely visit Ringshout if this is at all what interests you. Much props to Chris Jackson and crew for the efforts and amidst all this, I can't help but think of Bandit Queen Press (Having a Book Signing in April for The Organist's Daughter!)
Nothing much to report from Mars. Mission still in progress: I'm hanging in there!
I'm out,
the lab

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BrookLife said…
aight! tell em... and thanks for takign the time to peep the new blog... it took me a minute to really get it together but i got it and now...ITS ON!!!!!

oh yeah, imma be in Amsterdam Sunday thru Wednesday.

holla back!
8:43 PM
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