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Author-Poet Aberjhani's Blog – May 2009 Archive (3)

Slavery by What Other Name?

(photo of a chain gang in Thomasville, Georgia, 1898, by Carl Weiss)

Ask any student of American history what year the enslavement of African Americans ended in the United States and she or he will answer with cheerful confidence, “1865” (even though President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, the constitutional amendments that made it a nationally inclusive law came later).

Ask that… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on May 23, 2009 at 4:30pm — 5 Comments

Some Call it "Zafonmania"

Cover of Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I think I’ve figured out why I am just now learning about the fantabulous works of author Carlos Ruiz Zafón. At the time that his novel The Shadow of the Wind enjoyed a year-long run on the bestseller lists in Spain in 2001, and then later duplicated… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on May 16, 2009 at 5:20pm — No Comments

Author Miriam K. Center on Writing, Spirituality, and a Song-man Named Johnny Mercer

CTI member and author Miriam K. Center (photo by John Zeuli).

Already a dedicated advocate for the empowerment of women, a world traveler, successful real estate agent, and author of the scandalously irreverent Scarlett O’Hara Can Go to Hell, Miriam K. Center recently added the title of playwright to her list of things to accomplish while living on earth. Center has long been a fan of theatre who lists Edward Albee,… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on May 14, 2009 at 1:22pm — 1 Comment

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