shailjapatel: Video: "Lit and Independence in Kenya" - seminar at Stockholm Poetry Festival, with Ngwatilo Mawiyoo http://shailja.com/news/newsletterblog/

shailjapatel: "Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting." - Lee Daniels, director of Precious (based on book by Sapphire)

shailjapatel: When I start work in the pre-dawn dark at 4.30am, sunrise feels like a personal reward :-)

shailjapatel: Radio i/view with Katja Sussner, Berlin Hse of World Cultures http://soundcloud.com/herbstradio/2009-11-07-houseradioshailjapatelinterview

shailjapatel: Berlin show tonight! Poetry, Performance, Resistance: An Evening With Shailja Patel. http://www.africavenir.org/

shailjapatel: My one hour interview airs on Leading Conversations. Listen at 10am PST, or download. http://bit.ly/paeXV

shailjapatel: "It disturbed us that our list was all male." Publishers Weekly on their Top 10 Books of 2009. Nine white and 1 brown male, to be precise.

shailjapatel: writing up a storm in The Writers House, Stockholm, as rain and snow whirl outside http://www.forfattarforbundet.se/sff/main.nsf/2/8030/

shailjapatel: "America, Stop Sucking Up To Israel" - Israeli columnist, Gideon Levy, in today's Haaretz http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1124928.html?

shailjapatel: Performing at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre tonight! Footprints of Garbo, Bergman, Harjo....Goosebumps http://www.dramaten.se/Dramaten/

shailjapatel: Performing at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre tonight! Same stage as Garbo, Harjo. Goosebumps. have http://www.dramaten.se/Dramaten/

shailjapatel: So many friends at tonight's talk - & great questions got me buzzing! Thank you all, esp Okoth for posting at http://kenyastockholm.com/

shailjapatel: Stockholm, seminar, Monday - come! "Literature & Independence in Kenya", 18.00-19.30, ABF-huset, Sveavägen 41. http://www.00tal.com/?p=2415

shailjapatel: "Travels With Toasted Seaweed and Celery Sticks" - possible title for a touring memoir, if I ever write one

shailjapatel: wandering Stockholm graveyards, delighting in richly scented roses, still in full bloom under metallic Stockholm skies

shailjapatel: Great talk with Cheryl Esposito, Leading Conversations Radio. Listen/download Nov 6. http://bit.ly/paeXV

shailjapatel: Financial Times special report on Kenya - grim reading. http://www.ft.com/reports/kenya-2009

shailjapatel: Average Israeli uses 300 litres water daily. Palestinians get 20-70 litres, all polluted. http://bit.ly/cpmkN

shailjapatel: James Baldwin tours "the San Francisco Americans pretend does not exist" in 1963. http://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/187041

shailjapatel: Immigration = neuroplastic shock, endless brutal workout for the adult brain, massive rewiring of cortex http://www.normandoidge.com/