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Samiya Bashir, author of Where the Apple Falls, is one of several Cave Canem Fellows reading at 1 p.m. Sunday, October 15, 2006, at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The Cave Canem Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Faculty and Fellows reading is in support of the Black Gay & Lesbian Archive at the Schomburg, and in celebration of Cave Canem's 10th anniversary. Also reading are CC faculty Cyrus Cassells and Cheryl Clarke, and CC fellows Jericho Brown, R. Erica Doyle, Monica Hand, Duriel E. Harris, Reginald Harris, John Keene, Dante Micheaux, Mendi Obadike, Kamilah Aishah Moon and Venus Thrash. Free and open to the public! The Schomburg is at 515 Malcolm X Blvd. in New York City.

Sharon Bridgforth, author of love conjure/blues and the bull-jean stories, is reading at 8 p.m. Monday, October 16, 2006 at the Old Dominion University Literary Festival in Norfolk, VA, curated this year by Tim Seibles. Other guests include Frank X. Walker and Tyehimba Jess. You can hear a recent one-hour interview with Sharon Bridgforth by S. Hope Davis here.

Ernest Hardy's Blood Beats: Vol. 1/Demos, Remixes & Extended Versions is getting some online play. Here's a bit from the Philadelphia Weekly; another bit on Donnell Alexander's blog; and yet another mention here on Mike the Poet's October blog (scroll down a few paragraphs); and lastly a nice long interview in the Filmmakers Alliance Magazine. You can see a good portion of it on Ernest's blog here. One more thing: congratulations go to Ernest for earning the 2006 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for liner notes for the Chet Baker CD, Career 1952-1988.

Femmenoir.net has posted an interview of RedBone Press publisher Lisa C. Moore on YouTube. It's about 9 minutes long; go here to check it out.

One more on YouTube: Ana-Maurine Lara reads an excerpt from the next RedBone Press title, Erzulie's Skirt. Enjoy!