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bookish love December 11, 2006

Amiri Baraka and Colin Channer at Small Press Fair

Amiri Baraka

Matt Ashby writes: The room filled with about 60 people, some standing in the back, for the interview of Amiri Baraka by Colin Channer. Baraka, known for his poetry and activism, recently released a short story collection Tales of the Out and the Gone, published by Akashic Books, a Brooklyn-based independent house that also published a collection of Jamaican writers, Iron Balloons, as edited by Channer. Akashicâ€™s publisher Johnny Temple introduced them.

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