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HARLEM BOOK FAIR’08
THURGOOD MARSHALL AUTHOR DISCUSSIONS and READINGS
Programs Subject to Change
TMA (THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY)
214 West 135th Street, corner of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard
SATURDAY, JULY 19
1:00 – 2:15pm HEROES AND HEROINES: The Impact of the African American
GYM Romance Novel on Street Fiction
MODERATOR: Donna Hill (Wicked Ways)
PANELISTS: Gwynne Foster (Getting Some Of Her Own);
Nathasha Brooks Harris (Can I Get An Amen); Sandra
Kitt (Celluloid Memories); Leslie Esdaille (Better Than)
This discussion will provide insight into the genre's longevity
and popularity and how its basic structure has provided an
"acceptable" medium to mass produce stories about African
Americans, build an audience and a marketplace thus providing the
platform for the current surge in black fiction. Find out why the
genre has remained unshakable, how it has retained and developed
its fan base and how black romances, street fiction and commercial
black fiction all tell of the black experience by reflecting the
environment from which their heroes and protagonists emerge.
2:15 – 3:30pm NOIR IN HARLEM: Groundbreaking Authors Explore the Dark
GYM Side of New York
Moderator: Kenji Jasper (The House on Childress Street)
Panelists: Sandra Kitt (Celluloid Memories), Errol Louis (Brooklyn
Noir), Kim Sykes (Queens Noir)
This event features a panel discussion with some of the most
exciting contributors to Akashic Books’ award-winning ‘Noir’ series,
including Errol Louis, Sandra Kitt, and Kenji Jasper, who will
moderate this discussion. The panel will explore the definition of
"noir," and the role of writers of color in pushing the boundaries of
writing that explores crime and other dark themes. A reading from
their Akashic Noir Series stories will follow the discussion.
3:45 – 5:00pm CYPRIAN EKWENSI: JAGUA NANA and ONITSHA MARKET GYM LITERATURE
Moderator: Chudi Uwazurike (Uzo Nwanna and the Song of a
Thousand Tunes)
Panelists: Ernest Emenyonu (The Rise of the Igbo Novel); Kurt
Thometz (Life Turns Man Up and Down); Marie Umeh (Flora
Nwapa: A Pen and A Press); Olotosin Mustapha; George C.
Ekwensi
Cyprian Ekwensi was a contemporary of the much-lauded writer
Chinua Achebe. While Things Fall Apart received critical acclaim and
government-supported approval, Jagua Nana, Ekwensi’s classic
street life narrative, was dismissed and even banned from being
read. Onitsha Market literature, like today’s street fiction, is gritty,
violent, and unflattering of societal norms. This panel discusses the
impact and success of Jagua Nana and the African street novel.
READINGS @ TMA
(THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY LIBRARY)
1:00 - 1:30pm POETS ON STAGE: SELECTED READINGS BY TRANSENDENTAL POETS
George E. James: Peeling the Onion - Poems of Spiritual Awakening
1:45 - 3:30pm BANDANA REPUBLIC: POETRY and PROSE FROM GANG MEMBERS
and THEIR AFFILIATES
Louis Reyes Rivera, Bruce George, Layding Kaliba, Ron King,
Victor 'Gotti' Cherry, and others...
3:45 - 5:00pm NOIR IN HARLEM: READINGS FROM THE AKASHIC SERIES
Readings by Kim Sykes, Errol Louis, Sandra Kitt, and Kenji Jasper
Schomburg/Hughes Auditorium Author Discussions (Nonfiction)
Countee Cullen Author Discussions (Fiction)
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(HBF PUBLISHING PAVILION
COUNTEE CULLEN LIBRARY MEZZANINE
132 West 136th Street, corner of Malcolm X Boulevard
YOUNG READERS PAVILION
TMA (THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY)
214 West 135th Street, corner of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard
HBF FINANCIAL WEALTH PAVILION
SCHOMBURG/AMERICAN NEGRO THEATRE
515 Malcolm X Blvd., corner of West 135th Street
SUNDAY, JULY 20
QBR AUTHOR DISCUSSIONS
SCHOMBURG/LANGSTON HUGHES AUDITORIUM
515 Malcolm X Blvd., corner of West 135th Street
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