On the 25th of January, Award-winning novelist and acclaimed feminist writer Chimamanda Adichie was in Paris to attend The Night of Ideas, a cross-continental cultural event held by the Institut Francais at the Quai d’Orsay. One of the events scheduled for the day was Adichie being interviewed by French journalist Caroline Broué. Broué is an […]
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Writing About Gayness, Blackness and Jazz in 1920s Harlem and Paris | Interview with Joe Okonkwo, Author of Jazz Moon
Joe Okonkwo’s debut novel, Jazz Moon, came out in June of this year. Described by David Ebershoff, author of The Danish Girl, as “passionate, alive, and original,” it follows a gay male poet’s journey in the 1920s from the American South to Harlem and then to Paris, handling complexities of character when impacted by art and love […]
The Paris Pilgrimage or Hunting Hemingway | By Oris Aigbokhaevbolo | An Essay
I The waitress, blond, smiling, set down a glass of Grimsberger Rouge as chatter from within the glass-bound café sailed to where I sat on the pavement, waiting for Claudia, my friend and longsuffering tour guide. She was within looking for a board game. I forget the name of the café. But it could […]
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