Horacio Castellanos Moya leerá fragmentos de su novela Tirana Memoria en City of Asylum Pittsburgh. En la reseña publicada en el New York Times, se resalta que la aguda ironía de Castellanos Moya ilustra el ritmo de vida en una ciudad provinciana de Latino América.
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In this interview with Meena Kandasamy, SujeethG speaks about his work, the importance of protest music in a revolutionary struggle, and hip hop’s ability to transform the meaning of the material it appropriates.
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City of Asylum Pittsburgh invites you to an evening with writer Horacio Castellanos Moya July 27, at 7:00 pm. Also read an excerpt from the novel The She-Devil in the Mirror.
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In this video, alto saxophonist Darius Jones talks about composing outside of a traditional 20th century musical structure and fans downloading his songs illegally, and the physicality of the saxophone and human voice.
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In this video from 2010′s Cave Canem reading, poet and Cave Canem fellow Colleen J McElroy reads four of her poems: “Military Woman Evolution,” “R & R,” “Fairytales,” and “Caught in the Crosswalk.”
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The documentary Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour, recorded before Ai’s arrest, provides cultural and political context to his provocative work, as well as a glimpse into the artist’s life.
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Syrian government has detained Omar al-Assad, a local journalist who contributes to pan-Arab news outlets, and expelled Maarten Zeegers, a reporter for NRC Handelsblad and De Standaard.
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