City Noir, Desert Noir: Colin Channer and Kwame Dawes on Kingston Noir and Robert Arellano on Curse the Names
Sunday, Nov. 18, 2:00 p.m., Room 8502 (Building 8, 5th Floor)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Colin Channer
Kingston Noir (Akashic Books, $15.95) edited by Colin Channer, takes readers to the dark side of Jamaica’s capital city. Award-winning Jamaican authors such as Marlon James, Leone Ross, and Thomas Glave balance menace and humor in this latest entry in the popular noir anthology series. “. . . darker and deeper than any before . . .”—The Huffington Post. Colin Channer's many works of fiction include the national bestselling novel Waiting In Vain, which was a Critic's Choice selection of the Washington Post. His personal essays and reviews have appeared in, among other places, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. His list of academic appointments includes Fannie Hurst Writer in Residence at Brandeis University, and Susan and Donald Newhouse Professor in Creative Writing at Wellesley College. Russell Banks hailed Channer's novella The Girl With the Golden Shoes as "a nearly perfect moral fable."
Kwame Dawes
Jubilation!: Poems Celebrating 50 Years of Jamaican Independence (Peepal Tree Press, $19.95), edited by Kwame Dawes, features more than 50 contemporary Jamaican poets who reflect in outspoken, meditative, humorous, and outrageous ways upon the historical and existential moment of Jamaican independence. Dawes is a poet, an editor, and the author of 17 books, including Bob Marley and Red. He is the founder and director of the University of South Carolina Poetry Initiative and the programmer for the Calabash International Literary Festival in Jamaica.
Robert Arellano
Robert Arellano blends noir and paranormal obsession in his novel Curse the Names (Akashic, $15.95). A massive bomb is ticking beneath the sands of the Southwest, and time is running out to send a warning. A reporter has to find a way to pass along the message—even if it ruins him. "Written with passion and vision and with a clear, unflinching eye. . .”—Pablo Medina. Arellano, is also the author of the Edgar-nominated crime novel Havana Lunar.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 8502 (Building 8, 5th Floor)
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