Sampsonia Way magazine presents fragments from Tyrant Memory selected by author. The tyrant of Castellanos Moya’s ambitious new novel is based on the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernández Martínez who came to power in El Salvador in 1932.
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Sampsonia Way magazine poses 15 questions to Horacio Castellanos Moya, author of Tyrant Memory, his latest novel, and former writer-in-residence at City of Asylum Pittsburgh.
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In this interview, Tagarira talks to Sampsonia Way about President Robert Mugabe, the different means of illustrating a message, and the psychology of discrimination.
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In June 2011, Sampsonia Way asked poet Cornelius Eady if there was a personal story that made him believe Cave Canem, an organization of African-American poets he co-founded in 1996, was an indispensable institution in the […]
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Excerpt from Kenya, Will You Marry Me? by Philo Ikonya, the exiled Kenyan poet and novelist. She is known for speaking out against injustice and corruption and has written extensively on governance, mass poverty and post-election violence in Kenya.
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Like the many facets of Shteyngart’s novel Super Sad True Love Story alternate future, this conversation between the author and John Allison (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) turned to unexpected topics like pornography, immortality, and Russia.
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This poem, from his book The Gathering of My Name, is Cornelius Eady’s response to Sampsonia Way‘s request for a personal story that spoke of his belief in Cave Canem, the organization of African-American poets he co-founded with fellow poet Toi Derricotte.
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