Biography Essay"As I go on writing, I feel less and less interested in the approval of the First World, and I never had the approval of the world I came from, so now I don't know where I am. I've exil...
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A significant voice in contemporary literature, Jamaica Kincaid (born 1949) is widely praised for her works of short fiction, novels, and essays in which she explores the tenuous relationship between ...
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Jamaica Kincaid gained wide acclaim with her first two works, At the Bottom of the River and Annie John. In these and other books about life on the Caribbean island of Antigua, where she was born, Kin...
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"Everyone thought I had a way with words, but it came out as a sharp tongue. No one expected anything from me at all. Had I just sunk in the cracks it would not have been noted. I would have been luck...
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"As I go on writing, I feel less and less interested in the approval of the First World, and I never had the approval of the world I came from, so now I don't know where I am. I've exiled myself yet a...
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"The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark," Jamaica Kincaid writes in the essay "On Seeing England for the First Time" (1991). And it is this space, wh...
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Internet-trawling fans of the Gilmore Girls received some bittersweet news yesterday afternoon. After seven seasons, the beloved mother/daughter beyond-bonding dramedy will be going off the air ...
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In 1998, Sativa Verte, a nude model and fetish entrepreneur, visited Manhattan for the first time. Her name then was Lisa, she was 13 years old, and she was on vacation with her grandparents from h...
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Frenemies, those acquaintances who exchange pleasantries to your face then spit insults behind your back, can be quite vicious. Especially when they’re writers. Old Acquaintance, written by J...
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Three weeks after Manhattan Media bought the New York Press and declared that, unlike New York Magazine and the Village Voice, the paper would no longer print sex ads in its classified section, Voi...
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Back in New York City, while I was working on the Monica story, Through the Fire, Monica called and left a voice mail. It was what I needed to get me through my last late night of edits on the stor...
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Tucked into a booth at La Goulue on a recent, balmy afternoon, enjoying delicate bites of salmon, Thayer Iaccaci, age 66, looked the very picture of a Grand Dame of Madison Avenue. She wore a color...
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It’s the light, a kind of fire in the eyes, sometimes flaming, sometimes smoldering. It’s a gravitational force, sucking the attention of anyone around. It makes a decent actress seem g...
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The countless platinum plaques on the lobby walls of Atlanta’s Tree Sound Studios are both inspiration and challenge for 20-year-old R&B; newcomer Tyra Bolling. The Petersburg, Va., nativ...
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1. Art-Viewing in Florence For girls who crave culture, Florence has it all. Some of the world's most important works of art and architecture – think Michelangelo's David, the Palazzo Vecchio...
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They call it the timeout room, where their Svengali Chris Stokes (B2K, Marques Houston, Omarion) will “discipline” them if they don’t get a dance move or a vocal key absolutely pe...
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Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid
Goodbye, Girls
