What We Are Reading: Prose In Different Area Codes

by / on August 11, 2010, 12:34 am

PROSE: Salman Rushdie brings heavy guns against George Orwell and Hollywood in Outside the Whale. Chris Abani’s book is pulled off Florida’s summer reading list because of racy content. Read excerpts from Mark Twain’s autobiography, as well as Abdul Adan’s review of African Roar. Then Binyavanga Wainnaina writes a sequel to his famous viral piece, “How To Write About Africa.” Ngozi Achebe is Chinua [...]

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