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TBR: Choosing Africa, by B. Susan Bauer

by Erika Dreifus on
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B. Susan Bauer is another wonderful writer I’ve had the good fortune to get to know via the Internet. We’ve been corresponding ever since we began finding that lots of our comments in online writing fora seemed to be in sync. And I’m so glad we discovered that.

Now, Susan has announced the publication of her memoir, Choosing Africa. Subtitled “A Midlife Journey from Mission to Meaning,” the book centers around the experiences of six years in Namibia, where Susan and her husband lived and taught. I haven’t yet read the book, but I have read, and much enjoyed, several of Susan’s Africa-inspired writings, which have appeared in The Apalachee Review, Transitions Abroad, and The Raleigh Quarterly.

Susan is a special soul, and I am so happy to be able to congratulate her on her book’s publication. If her story sounds interesting to you, please visit the Choosing Africa Web site to learn more.

Friday Find: The Atlantic’s Summer Fiction Issue (2009)

by Erika Dreifus on
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I am off in a few hours for a long-anticipated weekend with three of my closest friends from college. We’re all celebrating big birthdays in 2009, and it’s an off-reunion year for our college class, so we’re holding our own mini-reunion and converging in the Midwest. I can’t wait!

Before I board the plane this afternoon, I’m hoping to pick up a print copy of The Atlantic‘s latest fiction issue at the airport. The contents are online, too, so you don’t necessarily need to find a newsstand.

Enjoy, and have a great weekend!

Book Release Giveaways from John Griswold

by Erika Dreifus on
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Strange thing about this Internet. Over time, you can make “virtual” friends you care quite a lot about.

For me, one such friend is John Griswold, the eponymous blogger posting on The Education of Oronte Churm. More significant for this post’s purposes, John is also the author of the new novel, A Democracy of Ghosts. I’ve just ordered the book, and I am really hoping it arrives in time for my holiday weekend reading. (Read John’s description of his book here.)

Meantime (and until July 10), John is offering a slew of giveaways. Check out these goodies (and if you have ties to Southern Illinois, I think you’ll be especially pleased).

And congratulations once again to John on his novel’s publication!

The Wednesday Web Browser: Colson Whitehead Edition

by Erika Dreifus on
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One regret I have about my college years is that I didn’t get to know as many of the writers and future writers in my class as I might have. One of these college classmates is Colson Whitehead (who probably has no idea who I am).

But I was thrilled to hear him speak at a literary event last year, and I’m following the press on his new book with great interest. That novel, Sag Harbor, has gone to the top of my tbr list.

For more on Colson Whitehead and Sag Harbor, please check the following:

–Radhika Jones’s “Dag!”

–Janet Maslin’s “Black Teenage Memories, Under the Hamptons Sun”

–Charles McGrath’s “Coming of Age in Sag Harbor Amid Privilege and Paradox”

–And for those who love YouTube, you can see/hear Colson Whitehead himself talk about Sag Harbor, the place and the book, right here.

What I Will Be Reading

by Erika Dreifus on
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When, exactly, I’ll be reading this, I don’t know. I am near the end of a novel, with two books waiting to be read and reviewed, two more sitting on my nightstand, and a host of other titles noted to be bought or borrowed. But I was blown away by the poems by John Updike that were published in the March 16 New Yorker, and you can bet that I’ll be reading the collection Endpoint and Other Poems. Hopefully, sometime very soon.