http://www.nadinedajani.com Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:03:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In honor of my first post in an embarrassingly long time, let me present a wonderful emerging talent in the world of women's fiction and a lovely person, Japan aficionado Wendy Tokunaga!!!!   Wendy is the author of the well-received, MIDORI BY MOONLIGHT, two children's novels, and many short stories published in ... http://www.nadinedajani.com/gcc-presents-wendy-tokunaga/ Since that semester in high school that introduced me to George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984, I've been a huge fan of anti-Utopian literature - books that imagine the ills of our present spiraling out of control, creating such dark, dismal (and devastatingly plausible) futures that the reader can't help ... http://www.nadinedajani.com/like-creativity-for-arithmetic/ I could not possibly be more thrilled to present According to Jane, a debut novel by one of my dearest writer friends, and one of the kindest people I've ever had the pleasure to know.  And Marylin is truly the postergirl for that karmic adage - what goes around comes around. After joining RWA ... http://www.nadinedajani.com/gcc-presents-according-to-jane-and-the-wonderful-marylin-brant/ [caption id="attachment_769" align="aligncenter" width="247" caption=""It is at this cost that you can eat sugar in Europe" said the negro to Candide"][/caption]   Voltaire, the 18th Century French essayist, wrote about it in his 1762 smash hit, Candide: or the Optimist, and now one of my favorite social critics and class warriors, Barbara Ehrenreich, has ... http://www.nadinedajani.com/lighten-up-vs-suck-it-up-myopic-optimism-in-the-age-of-plenty/   Picture it. You’re a nine-year old recent immigrant, one-time exemplary student, forced by a certain language law that shall remain nameless to undergo a year-long French immersion program ironically called (I can only imagine, by a civil servant with a twisted sense of humour) “Welcome Class” where you find out ... http://www.nadinedajani.com/a-bitter-anniversary-for-the-tragedy-that-keeps-on-giving/ I'm still travelling around, hence the erratic nature of these postings, but I just couldn't resist this...     I don't know what those poor Minnesotans did to deserve this, other than enable Norm Coleman to be such a leechy spaz for so long, but still... low blow. http://www.nadinedajani.com/cayman-staycation/   I did it - I cracked the Cayman Islands opinion and commentary market with an Op-Ed piece about the military coup in Honduras - hizzah! So my last name is misspelled... a small detail... Here it is my Caymanian debut. The piece is called "Good Intentions, Wrong Side of History?" and it's basically ... http://www.nadinedajani.com/my-cayman-publishing-debut/ I'm very excited to be touring Carleen Brice today, and her second novel, Children of the Waters, the follow-up to her best-selling debut novel, Orange Mint and Honey. Carleen doesn't just write and blog about racially diverse characters - in the age of exploding Hispanic and Latino populations in the US, ... http://www.nadinedajani.com/children-of-the-waters/   ...Puerto Rico. Which I hope, dear readers, will (partially) explain my recent absence from the blogosphere. I am trying to divide my days between working on projects I've long wanted to do (finish Upside of Down, start exclusive-for-Kindle novella, bask in the Puerto Rican sun..) But I'll be back, so please hang ... http://www.nadinedajani.com/where-in-the-world-is-nadine/ I started watching this story on Jon Stewart at 8 pm, and at that time, this was just a really hilarious comic piece about a high-ranking politician going totally AWOL. By the time Rachel Maddow rolled around, Mark Sanford was discovered at the Altanta airport, returning from a very poorly-planned, ... http://www.nadinedajani.com/is-it-just-me-or-is-the-governor-of-south-carolina-the-picture-of-a-man-at-the-end-of-his-rope/