by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Dec 23, 2014 | Blog
My friend (and fellow writing group member) Rachael Hanel pointed out to me that the U of Minnesota Press is publishing a book about Steve Biko in the spring: Biko’s Ghost. It sounds pretty academic and analytical, but it sounds amazing. I can’t wait to...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Dec 15, 2014 | Blog
It’s official: I am seriously seeking new representation. After about 14 years of a terrific friendship, I have left my agent, and am looking for a new one. I have two books ready to market. One is completely done, and the other, I’m still tweaking but...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Dec 11, 2014 | Blog
I have another new favorite South African novel. This one blew me away. Zakes Mda’s novel Ways of Dying is set in the early 1990s–if I had to guess, it would be 1990-1991: between the time Nelson Mandela was released from prison and when he was elected...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog
I guess Nelson Mandela has become one of the icons of my life. Wise without being perfect. I want to follow his example forever. He died on Dec. 5 of last year. I can hardly believe Madiba has been gone a whole year. Here Bill Moyer shares an interview from 1991 with...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Dec 6, 2014 | Blog
Ursula LeGuin rocks the National Book Awards. I cannot say anything better than she did, so I will let you watch and listen instead if reiterating it. My favorite statements (or at least two of them): “Any human power can be challenged by Human beings.”...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Dec 2, 2014 | Blog
The Covenant All study of South Africa leads any outsider with sensibility to be appalled by the horrific institution of apartheid, which in Afrikaans, means “apartness.” This policy pervaded South African history, but was specifically and violently,...
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