Saturday writing essential submission: The ladies of Callistor.

Challenge: Write something (prose or poetry; fiction, nonfiction, or essay) that tells me what you think makes a woman. I’m really looking for fun here, but you can be silly or serious, as you . . .

Love And Hip Hop – Episode 10 – Everything Happens For A Reason

And they all lived hapily ever after. Okay, some of them lived mostly okay ever after. Kimbella is having a terrible week. Yandy comes over so she can unload all her problems, and Kimbella fills her in on how she ambushed Erica at her birthday party the night before but since she left before they [...]

Angela Carter: portrait in postcards

The author was in her literary prime when she died 20 years ago aged 51; since then her brilliantly exuberant novels have influenced a generation of writers. Her friend and literary executor has written an insightful memoir inspired by postcards Carter sent her – a paper trail through the novelist's life. Here is an extract Twenty years ago I went for the first time into Angela Carter's study. I ...

dazza - cheeky bugger!! Love

In reply to Man Overboard? : dazza - cheeky bugger!! Love this line - “If we are all equal…who can say who should go first?” What a dilemma!! Toss a coin and leave it up to kharma!! Living is a day to day affair.

Jay-Z discontinues his use of the 'b' word in his songs since birth of Blue Ivy Carter

Gina DiFalco Jay-Z at at The Shawn Carter Foundation Hosts An Evening of "Making The Ordinary Extraordinary" September 29, 2011 - Pier 54 New York, NY United States read more