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    Thursday, February 10, 2011

    The right to the unknown

    don't know what will happen. pre #Jan25 I could predict tomorrow will be like today and yesterday, we revolt to gain the right to unkown

    — Alaa Abd El Fattah, @alaa
    Posted by Nicholas Laughlin at 10:38 PM

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    Who is Nicholas Laughlin?

    I am a writer (read some of my reviews, essays, etc. at Choosing My Confessions) and editor of The Caribbean Review of Books. Visit my home page for more details. My major work-in-progress is a book about Guyana, tentatively titled “Imaginary Roads”.



    I also blog at Antilles: the CRB blog.

    I’m a co-director of Alice Yard, an experimental creative space and network in Port of Spain.



    I’m also on the organising team for the Bocas Lit Fest, a literary festival based in Trinidad and Tobago, and for the annual OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.



    I co-edit Town, a modest literary magazine published in two formats: broadsides posted in public locations around Port of Spain, and online.



    Paramaribo SPAN is a conversation about contemporary art and visual culture in Suriname. The project, which ran from July 2009 to April 2010, included an exhibition, a book, and a blog, which I edited.

    See photos at my Flickr page.

    See my collaboration with artist Christopher Cozier, Tropical Night.

    The (half serious) Nicholas Laughlin Book Awards: 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002.

    Amours de voyage; or, notes from an occasional traveller.

    Some poems.

    Email me at:
    nicholaslaughlin[at]gmail[dot]com
    save boissiere house
    Global Voices: The World is Talking, Are You Listening?

    My Global Voices author’s page
    CFR

    Blogs I read oftenish

    At the Drop of a Heartbeat

    Christopher Cozier

    Jeremy Taylor

    The Secret Blog of Patrick Manning

    Mary Adam's blog (and website)

    Annie Paul

    Attillah Springer

    B.C. Pires

    Marlon Darbeau

    Freepaper

    ARTZPUB.

    Pleasure: art in all its forms

    KnowTnT.com

    Ingrid Persaud

    Guyana Gyal

    Marlon James

    Geoffrey Philp

    Signifyn' Guyana

    Andre Bagoo

    Lisa Allen-Agostini

    Sharon Millar's chutney garden

    Ms Sancoche (Mariel Brown)

    Diana McCaulay

    William Abbott

    Caribbean Book Blog

    Club Soda and Salt

    Seldo

    Francomenz

    Dylan Kerrigan

    Vernon Ramesar

    The Manicou Report

    Elspeth Duncan

    David Sasaki (El Oso)

    Jai Arjun Singh

    Ron Silliman

    Matthew Hittinger

    Ethan Zuckerman



    Galvanize 2006 archive

    Caribbean magazines, journals, newspapers

    ARC

    Caribbean Beat

    Small Axe

    Trinidad Express

    Trinidad Guardian

    Trinidad & Tobago Review

    Jamaica Observer

    Jamaica Gleaner

    Barbados Advocate

    Barbados Nation

    Stabroek News

    Guyana Chronicle

    The Arts Journal

    Anthurium

    Repeating Islands

    Draconian Switch

    tongues of the ocean

    Literary magazines, websites, and blogs around the world

    The African Review of Books

    The American Poetry Review

    Arete Magazine

    Arts and Letters Daily

    Australian Book Review

    Australian Book Review blog

    Biblio: A Review of Books

    Bookforum

    Shelf Space: Bookforum's books and culture blog

    Boston Review

    Contemporary Poetry Review

    Granta

    Jacket Magazine

    The Latin American Review of Books

    The London Review of Books

    The New Inquiry

    The New Yorker

    The New York Review of Books

    The New York Times Book Review

    Paper Cuts: the New York Times Book Review blog

    The Paris Review

    PN Review

    The Poetry Foundation

    Harriet: the Poetry Foundation blog

    Poetry Magazine

    Poetry Review

    Ploughshares

    Transition

    Threepenny Review

    The Times Literary Supplement

    The Walrus

    The Warwick Review

    Blog of a Bookslut

    Critical Mass: the blog of the National Book Critics Circle

    Kitabkhana

    The Literary Saloon

    Maud Newton

    Quick Study (Scott McLemee)

    The Valve

    Other people, places, things that interest me (in no particular order)

    Vertigo (on W.G. Sebald)

    Strange Maps

    Alex Ross (Unquiet Thoughts)

    Metropolis Magazine

    Codex Seraphinianus

    Phil Coy

    Project Gutenberg

    Michael Chabon

    AbeBooks

    Scott McLemee

    Athanasius Kircher Society

    Pinakothek

    Les Argotiers

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