Scenes from a delicious dinner
Scenes from a delicious dinner last night at my sister Mir Mo Ga’s place in Harlem. My brother-in-law, Gian Gandhi, makes excellent cocktails.
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Scenes from a delicious dinner last night at my sister Mir Mo Ga’s place in Harlem. My brother-in-law, Gian Gandhi, makes excellent cocktails.
Kweli24 book room, and the books I bought….
This was a great panel — really nice hearing an author and agent having a frank and open conversation about the process of working together (and going out on submission). (And yes, I bought her book!) Collaborations | Agent & Mid Career Author “From providing thoughtful feedback on drafts, to serving as a steady presence on important phone calls, to sending encouraging GIFS over text message, the role of the literary agent in guiding a
Picture of a tired author, conference day 2. I’m really enjoying the Kweli conference — pretty much EVERY presenter has been interesting (kind of unheard of for a conference), and I’ve learned stuff, and they also all seem like people who would be really fun to hang out with. Spending more time in the kid-lit world is sounding very appealing (even if they do have to deal with a lot more book-banning issues than adult
I now believe every conference should open with a ten-minute ballet performance. Mia Bermudez, of Ballet Hispanico, performing an adaptation of A Crown of Stories: The Life and Language of Beloved Writer Toni Morrison.
Mary Anne Mohanraj is author of A Feast of Serendib, Bodies in Motion, The Stars Change, and twelve other titles. Other recent publications include stories for George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards series, Perennial: A Garden Romance (Tincture), stories at Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, and Lightspeed, and an essay in Roxane Gay’s Unruly Bodies.
Mohanraj founded Hugo-nominated and World Fantasy Award-winning speculative literature magazine Strange Horizons, and serves as Executive Director of both DesiLit (desilit.org) and the Speculative Literature Foundation (speclit.org). She is Clinical Associate Professor of fiction and literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago. www.maryannemohanraj.com