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1 mag 2024 · Odetta (born December 31, 1930, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.—died December 2, 2008, New York, New York) was an American folk singer who was noted especially for her versions of spirituals and who became for many the voice of the civil rights movement of the early 1960s.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
24 apr 2024 · Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) Capote’s first published novel, said to be semi-autobiographical and inspired by a walk in the woods in Monroeville, Alabama. It debuted at No. 9 on The New York Times bestseller list and earned Capote a spot in the Southern literary canon.
25 apr 2024 · Blending traditional South Asian melodies with global beats, and drawing on “folk” and “woke” iconographies to tell powerful tales of identity, Sethi’s work has been described as “stealthily subversive” by The New Yorker and has earned him a spot on TIME ’s 100 Next list.
17 apr 2024 · His first published novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, appeared in 1948 and drew widespread praise. The book is a sensitive, partly autobiographical portrayal of a boy’s search for his father and his own sexual identity.
6 mag 2024 · Need a poem? How one man cranks out verse − on a typewriter − in a Philadelphia park. In Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square, Marshall James Kavanaugh, a self-described “dream poet for hire,” sets up shop with a manual typewriter. Passersby can request poems on any topic, and Kavanaugh crafts whimsical verses for them.
Other Voices: Home at the Guinness Storehouse 2022.
22 apr 2024 · Nermeen Shaikh is a co-host and senior producer at the independent television news hour Democracy Now! based in New York City. She is the author of The Present as History: Critical Perspectives on Global Power (2007).
