Hamster's Wheel (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
LGBT people born today: 1906 – Luchino Visconti – Italian Director – Died 17 th March 1976 1916 – John Burnside – US Inventor – Died 14 th September 2008 1943 – Casey Donovan – US Porn – Died 10 th August 1987 1946 – Michelle Cliff – Jamaican / US Author / Poet / Literary Critic 1961 – KD Lang – Canadian Singer / Musician...
Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
For several years now, Jamaican-American author Michelle Cliff has been mapping out a fictive terrain at the intersection of Jamaican, American, and queer identities. With novels such as Abeng and No Telephone to Heaven, she established herself as a major postcolonial voice.Earlier this winter, I reviewed her book of essays, If I Could Write This in Fire, enjoying both Cliff's style and her fragmented...
