get ready for your close-up…
…because Amy Bodden Bowllan is asking folks to send her photos of their favorite book by an author of color. If booksellers like Borders think there’s no demand, let’s prove them wrong and show just how much we enjoy books with diverse perspectives. I just started Grace Lin‘s Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, and was thrilled to find a profile of Ms. Lin over at Color Online–check it out!
I was *not* thrilled to hear that Ellen Hopkins was disinvited from a teen lit festival in Texas; it is heartening, however, that her fellow authors withdrew in solidarity. Read more about it over at Chasing Ray…
I’m not an Eat, Pray, Love kind of girl, but the book/film phenomenon has at least provided yet another occasion to critique Orientalism. Check out Dr. Mia Mask’s NPR segment on the subject, and follow up with Ah Yuan’s fabulous guest post over at Reading in Color…enough is enough!
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