Six months since you died and only now I begin to feel the missing resonance of your body. I walk for hours through fresh snow; the ground is a rib I turn over with each […]
the art and literary blog of M.J. Fievre
Month: October 2013
Uncovering All That Glitters
The Florida Book Review | Published on : October 27 2013 | Christine Morando Click here to read the original article There’s been some hemming and hawing in Florida for the past few years that university graduates aren’t sticking around the […]
Tabitha Blankenbiller: Beauty and Madness
Tabitha Blankenbiller was born and raised in Washington’s Mt. Rainier foothills and currently lives south of Portland, Oregon. She is married and has raised two wonderful cats. Tabitha contributed to All That Glitters, a nonfiction […]
Nicholas Garnett gets married!
Congrats to Sliver of Stone editor Nicholas Garnett and the lovely Denise Schiavoni who tied the knot on October 26. Writer Andrea Askowitz presided over the ceremony by the ocean.
Hanging out at the 2013 FIU Writers Conference
With Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island. With writers Anjanette Delgado, Andrea Askowitz, Mahalia Solages, and Fabienne Sylvia Josaphat:
Sheree L. Greer on Her 5 Favorite Books
from Sheree L. Greer, author of Once and Future Lovers I approached this challenge – and it most certainly is a challenge to choose five books and deem them favorites – in a really haphazard […]
Best American Mystery Stories
A Note from Michele Slung Will you help spread the word that material eligible for consideration in the annual Best American Mystery Stories — for example, right now, any story published between January 1, 2013, and December […]
When I Can’t See the Sun: Jean-Michel Daudier’s Soundtrack to Haiti’s Democratic Moment
By guest blogger Kevin F. Mason At 3:45 a.m. in the morning on February 7, 1986, Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier boarded a U.S. chartered plane to take him into exile in France. In […]
Betsy Blankenbaker: Artist & Humanitarian
Betsy Blankenbaker directed and produced several documentaries, including New York in the Fifties (2000) based on the best-selling book by Dan Wakefield. “I started making films as an eight year old with my father’s 8mm […]
An awesome, mellow event
On his Facebook page, writer Hector Duarte, Jr. described the launch of Sliver of Stone’s All That Glitters as an “awesome, mellow event.” According to editor Nicholas Garnett, it was “warm and lovely, like family, […]
The Flight of Lola Catalina Lorenzo: An Interview with M. Evelina Galang
M. Evelina Galang, who teaches in and directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Miami, is core faculty for VONA/Voices: Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation. She has been named one of the […]
What’s in store for the future of Haiti’s literature?
Check out this article by Kat, blogger at Kreyolicious.com! She approached several experts about the future of Haitian literature: Dr. Martin Munroe, Director of the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies and a […]