On April 12, 2014 author Akhil Sharma sat down with Sampsonia Way magazine for this edition of “The Writer’s Block” in which Akhil reveals his painstaking writing process and the twelve year span he invested in his latest novel Family Life.
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In the third installment of Sampsonia Way’s “The Freedom Chat”, journalist Andrea Daza Tapia shines a light on the media blackouts in Venezuela, reaffirms the power of social media, and she details the detriments incurred from the conflation of roles between media professionals and politicians.
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Sampsonia Way celebrates National Poetry Month by highlighting a collection of works (published, unpublished, and performed), which were created by poets who greatly contributed to the development of the magazine.
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In this video, the late Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) tells the story of writing his famous novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the myriad challenges he and his wife Mercedes overcame in the process.
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In the second installation of “The Freedom Chat”, Ukrainian-born Linor Goralik affirms the power of political art, the reaches of religious censorship, and her relentless search to find outlets that will publish her work.
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January 31, 2014 marked the launch of Sampsonia Way’s first anthology Generation Zero: An Anthology of New Cuban Fiction. In this video, Pittsburgh’s Josh Raulerson (WESA) as well as American novelist and college professor Angie Cruz read from the new release.
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In this Exile Hangout, Cuban writers including Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, Lien Carrazana Lau, Danilo Maldonado Machado “El Sexto”, and Elena Victoria Molina speak about an anthology of Cuban short stories published by Sampsonia Way. They nuance Cuban literary generations and how “censorship is creating new spaces” in current conversations.
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