Earlier this evening, a college friend took me to see August Wilson's Seven Guitars at the Yale Rep, after a bountiful helping of noodles at a new spot on Crown St., where an old high school, I was pleased to discover, was a general manager. On Sunday, Nee and I will see a reading of a play written by a Tisch classmate of mine. I have many thoughts ( Read more... )

Last night, Nee took me to see Rancho Viejo, which was opening at Playwrights Horizons. The play did not feel as though it were 3 hours long. I struggle to describe it even now, but I can tell you the experience was memorable. Nee and I were partnered with her co-star from "A Life", Marinda, and Marinda's beau (with whom I would discover I shared ( Read more... )

-- The Origin Story of DJ Khaled - Ryan Pfeffer, Miami New Times, Jan. 26, 2016

"The year was 1993. Khaled was skinnier, but not skinny. Baggy clothes hid a lumpy frame, and his eyes, coffee black, looked slightly melted, microwaved until just warm."

-- How Chris Jackson Is Building a Black Literary Movement - Vinson Cunningham, New York Times ( Read more... )

-- Guitar Drag - Greil Marcus, Oxford American, Sept. 2, 2014 ( Read more... )

So I've been watching season 2 of In Treatment (with my brother) and now have to average a disk a day if I want to get it back to the library on time. Leaving aside the sheer masochism of this endeavor and the ensuing emotional torment, it's really enforced in my mind the idea of art as short for articulation. This is tangential to matociquala's wonderful ( Read more... )

Today, I got out of class early enough that on the way back home, I occasioned to see the sun set. It was a complete and perfect mirror to this morning's commute, the same seamless and muted reds and oranges and blues bleeding into each other, none of it forced or overwhelmingly beautiful. On a canvas you might've seen the lines delineating each ( Read more... )

So I just came from a London production of FELA! the Musical (broadcast by the National Theatre from London to NYU's Skirball Center) and I cannot even hope to give an objective perspective on the production here. What I will talk about is where and how exactly it impacted me and why it's made me realize how much I love Nigeria ( Read more... )

First off, I can't believe it's already Wednesday.

Second, why am I suddenly working on five projects at once?

1) Finish Ashes by end of August

2) Revise A Season in Tears when it comes back from the gallery, then begin next round of queries!

3) Plot View from Masada. (Did the first chapter on the bus ride home yesterday.) Hope to have half the ( Read more... )