Author-Poet Aberjhani's Blog – November 2007 Archive (3)

The opportunity to work with creative artists in a variety of fields is one of the greatest rewards of becoming a writer. That reward is one I’ve long been fortunate enough to enjoy in my various projects with the artist Luther E. Vann, but one I’ve only recently come to experience through the work of Barbara Hilal as demonstrated in my recent post for…

Some Hollywood directors are famous for the “ruthless” manner in which they cut precious scenes from a given film, and many music producers have similar reputations for what they will or will not allow on a final recording project. What both…

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I finally gave in and told Sandra West that, pending the approval of her agent and the encyclopedia’s publisher, Facts On File, I would accept the challenge of co-authoring the Encyclopedia of the Harlem

Renaissance. My one major regret was that the deadline for completing the

encyclopedia was the very next summer.…