Dizzy Gillespie, 1961

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Dizzy Gillespie talking about Africa, and "My Man."

Dizzy Gillespie talking about playing like a drummer, the Birdhouse, and "Lorraine."

Dizzy Gillespie talking about feeling music, and Latin influences.

David Whettstone of the Hurston/Wright Foundation interviews Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib about The Crown Ain't Worth Much (Button Poetry)

A World of Black Writers

A World of Black Writers: Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

Crystal Davis of the Hurston/Wright Foundation interviews Jacqueline Woodson about Another Brooklyn (Amistad)

A World of Black Writers: Jacqueline Woodson

Natalie Hopkinson of the Hurston/Wright Foundation interviews Sjohnna McCray about Rapture (Graywolf Press)

A World of Black Writers: Sjohnna McCray

https://soundcloud.com/user-713747084/a-world-of-black-writers-sjohnna-mccray

A World of Black Writers: Patricia Bell-Scott

Thu, Apr 14 at 6:30pm
Moderated by Michael Greenberg

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into 30 languages and has appeared in various publications, including The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003, The New Yorker, Granta, Financial Times, and Zoetrope. Her novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, won the Orange Broadband Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, was named a New York Times Notable Book, and was a People and Black Issues Book Review Best Book of the Year. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her latest book is a story collection called The Thing Around Your Neck. She is the recipient of a 2008 MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and was selected as one of The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40.” She divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.

www.nationalbook.org

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Michael Greenberg, 2011 Eat, Drink & Be Literary at BAM Cafe

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Dizzy Gillespie talking about playing like a drummer, the Birdhouse, and "Lorraine."

StudsTerkel Radio Archive