#JamaicaKincaid
…Themes which include right from the start: death, puberty, female sexuality, complex mother-daughter relationships, mental illness. So it should be a good challenge (and far more interesting than OMAM…)
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#BookSky
#UKEd
#JamaicaKincaid
October 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I first taught this class 10 years ago @ Hunter. It was incredible because of the student body.

•Pagoda — #PatriciaPowell
• What Noise Against the Cane — Desiree Bailey
• A Small Place — #JamaicaKincaid
• The Black Jacobins — #CLRJames
• Dub — #MichaelVeal
• Dancehall: A Reader

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August 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
In HS, I dreamed of writing like #JohnSteinbeck. In grad school, I dreamed of writing like #ChristaWolf or #JamaicaKincaid. Now, I dream of writing like @garthgreenwell.bsky.social.

When will I ever learn! 🤣🤣🤣

#5amwritersclub #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #writersky #authorsky
May 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I just learned that #JamaicaKincaid will be an #AmericanAcademy fellow in Berlin this coming autumn. Looking forward to a reading!
May 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Què tenen en comú este llibre del Carib i esta cançó de PR i Hawaii? Que són imprescindibles per entendre la colonització i com hem arribat fins ací, i que si no els coneixes, pitjor per a tu.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouuP... 12'35"-16'56
#jamaicakincaid #tinydeskbadbunny #globalization #colonialism
May 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I got Jamaica Kincaid's wonderful memoir, "My Garden (Book)" at Barbara's Bookstore in O'Hare last summer.

My favorite airport bookstore find ever - I've given multiple copies away since then. #booksky #gardensky #jamaicakincaid
from @potatofuzz.bsky.social, Barbara's Bookstore at O'Hare is popping off (posting specifically to let @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @prisonculture.bsky.social know they're airport book authors now)
April 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
some distractions
from hurtling across the sky in an aluminum tube

(began sarah kendzior's the last american roadtrip the other day and it's lovely)

#booksky
#d&g
#jamaicakincaid
#sarahkendzior
#normanosen
April 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
From the Book Post archive 📜

Jamaica Kincaid on encountering "the grandness of a living member of the vegetable kingdom blooming without wanting to be cared about by me or anyone who came before me."

books.substack.com/p/diary-jama...

#Literature #Nature #JamaicaKincaid
March 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Matching covers! We LOVE matching covers.
#booksky #jamaicakincaid #bookcover
March 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The challenge: In March, post a book or play by an author who identifies as a woman every day.
5/31 An essential and poised critique of colonialism - 10/10
#TheWriteWomen
#booksky #books
#booksky📚
#Jamaicakincaid
#asmallplace
March 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
good goddess, I read Lucy, and then immediately reread it...I should probably add it to the 20 book challenge

✨️so good✨️

#JamaicaKincaid
#Lucy
February 16, 2025 at 2:23 AM
My IRL January #bookclub read is “A Small Place” by @JamaicaKincaid. Is it too soon to label a 1988 classic as an oldie but goodie? 🤔

This #read rocked #Antigua. The resulting discourse rippled across the #Caribbean. Do the themes still hold up today? Is Kincaid a truthteller or a traitor?
January 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Jamaica Kincaid’in Annemin Otobiyografisinden…

#JamaicaKincaid #AnneminOtobiyografisi #Roman #Kitap #JaguarKitap #JaguarYayınları
November 23, 2024 at 11:50 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day4/20

#BlackBooksky #Booksky💙📚 #ASmallPlace #JamaicaKincaid
November 22, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Jamaica Kincaid & Kara Walker with Hilton Als: An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children: "The renowned novelist and the revered artist discuss their new book."

#JamaicaKincaid #KaraWalker #HiltonAls #NYPL #Books #BlackMastodon #Library #Academia #Gardening

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRc5...
Jamaica Kincaid & Kara Walker with Hilton Als: An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children
The renowned novelist and the revered artist discuss their new book, a unique collaboration that explores the hidden history of the plant world. Pre-order your signed copy of An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children and get your free ticket now! For event details and more, visit https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2024/05/07/an-encyclopedia-of-gardening-for-colored-children READ THE BOOK - NYPL Catalog: https://nypl.na2.iiivega.com/search/card?id=2132787f-ed8f-5b94-8d73-5c367b92e0c7&entityType=FormatGroup - The Library Shop — proceeds benefit The New York Public Library: https://shop.nypl.org/products/an-encyclopedia-of-gardening-for-colored-children LIVE FROM NYPL - Upcoming Events: https://nypl.org/live - Sign up for our newsletters: https://pages.email.nypl.org/updates Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker come together to share their new book, a one-of-a-kind production entitled An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children. It is an inventive and surprising survey about what our gardens reveal. Kincaid offers an ABC of the plants that define our world and reveals the often brutal history behind them. Walker illustrates each entry with provocative, brilliant, enthralling, many-layered watercolors. They speak with New Yorker staff writer and theater critic Hilton Als. Presented as part of The Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library's Treasures, which showcases some of the most extraordinary items from the 56 million in our collections. Among them is The Brownies Book, a children’s magazine published by W.E.B. Du Bois and whose primary intended audience was Black children. The event will begin with a short talk on The Brownies Book and other items reflecting stories of Black childhood by Barrye Brown, the Curator of Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John’s, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, My Brother, Mr. Potter, and See Now Then. She teaches at Harvard University and lives in Vermont. Kara Walker is best known for her candid investigation of race, gender, sexuality, and violence through silhouetted figures. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1997 and an Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship in 2008. She has been the Tepper Chair in Visual Arts at Rutgers University since 2015. Her work can be found in museums throughout the world, including the Guggenheim, MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Tate Gallery. She lives in New York. Hilton Als is an award-winning journalist, critic and curator. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1994. Prior to The New Yorker, Als was a staff writer for the Village Voice and an editor-at-large at Vibe. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (2017), Yale’s Windham-Campbell Literature Prize (2016), the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism (2002-03), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2000). His first book, The Women, was published in 1996. His next book, White Girls, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the winner of the Lambda Literary Award in 2014. His most recent book, My Pinup, was published in November 2022. In 2017, he curated the critically lauded exhibition Alice Neel, Uptown, which traveled from David Zwirner, New York, to Victoria Miro, London and Venice. In 2019, Als presented God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin at David Zwirner, New York, followed by Frank Moore at, David Zwirner, New York (2021) and Toni Morrison’s Black Book, at David Zwirner, New York (2022). He curated a series of three successive exhibitions for the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, of the work of Celia Paul (2018), Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (2019), and Njideka Akunyili Crosby (2022). In 2022, he curated Joan Didion: What She Means at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, which traveled to the Perez Art Museum Miami. He is currently a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and has also taught at Columbia University's School of the Arts, Princeton University, Wesleyan University, and the Yale School of Drama. The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms. To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.
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May 15, 2024 at 1:54 AM
enjoy the @girlswritenow video
w/a nod to the following:
Girl by #JamaicaKincaid
We Will Not Cancel Us: Breaking the Cycle of Harm by #AdrienneMareeBrown
Bestiary by @k_mingchang
The Prophets by @SonofBaldwin
w/a writing prompt inspired by...
November 18, 2024 at 9:02 AM
“I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.” — #JamaicaKincaid

This is what I remind myself, when I am doing…
November 18, 2024 at 9:03 AM
(Un)spoken Rules of Growing Up Girl

Join me for a writing workshop where we look at ChlorineSky & #JamaicaKincaid for poetic discovery!

All are welcome!

#GirlsWriteNow Friday Salon Series
1/29/21
@ 6pm est

#Free #yaauthors #poetry
November 18, 2024 at 9:15 AM
Nouvelle parution dans la collection "Lettres d'Amérique(s)", au format papier ou en PDF
#Caraïbe #JamaicaKincaid
January 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM