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Bell Madison Smartt:     more books (92)

Straight Cut (Hard Case Crime) by Madison Smartt Bell, 2006-05-30 The Washington Square Ensemble (Contemporary American Fiction) by Madison Smartt Bell, 1984-04-03 Zero db (Abacus Books) by Madison Smartt Bell, 1989-08-25 Save me, Joe Louis by Madison Smartt Bell, 1996-09-13 Soldier's Joy (Contemporary American Fiction) by Madison Smartt Bell, 1990-07-01 Barking Man and Other Stories Brit Edition by Madison Smartt Bell, 1992-01-23 Tradition Im Ubergang: Untersuchungen Zu Den Kurzgeschichten Der Sudstaatenautoren Bobbie Ann Mason, Madison Smartt Bell Und Richard Bausch (Studien Zur ... Amerikanischen Literatur) (German Edition) by Andreas Beilmann, 2004-01 Year of Silence (Abacus Books) by Madison Smartt Bell, 1989-03-23 Save Me, Joe Louis: A Novel (Contemporary American Fiction) by Madison Smartt Bell, 1994-08-01 Doctor Sleep by Madison Smartt Bell, 1992-06-01 EIMI: A Journey Through Soviet Russia by E. E. Cummings, 2007-12-03 Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (Great Discoveries) by Madison Smartt Bell, 2006-06-17 Ploughshares Winter 1999-00 : Stories and Poems The Color of Night (Vintage Contemporaries) by Madison Smartt Bell, 2011-04-05

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21. The Electric Art Gallery: Commentary By Madison Smartt Bell
    Commentary by madison smartt bell. Quartier des Mulatres Ba'mdlo from 'Soul In a Bottle' by madison smartt bell No gift  
    http://www.egallery.com/commentary2.html
    
    Extractions: History had never stopped happening in Haiti. The Revolution seemed to have taken place only yesterday. That phenomenon was partly explained by the compressed sense of time of an oral culture, and partly by the fact that Haitians, by means of their religion, had regular opportunities to meet the spirits of the revolutionary dead face to face, and partly by the other fact that nothing had really happened, politically speaking, since the Revolution the same patterns had kept on repeating themselves, over and over, as one feudal baron replaced another. Professor Bell has generously provided commentary for a number of the paintings in our "Under $200" Wing, drawn from his book in progress 'Soul In A Bottle.'

22. Ploughshares, The Literary Journal
    Authors Articles madison smartt bell This bio was last updatedon 07/25/2001. madison smartt bell. Photo by madison smartt bell.  
    http://www.pshares.org/Authors/authorDetails.cfm?prmAuthorID=104

23. Ploughshares, The Literary Journal
    Authors Articles About madison smartt bell A P About madison smartt bellA Profile. Wyn Cooper attended Hollins College with madison smartt bell.  
    http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4797

24. Madison Smartt Bell: Master Of The Crossroads
    MASTER OF THE CROSSROADS. By madison smartt bell New York Panther Books,2000. madison smartt bell. Pantheon. 752 pages. $30. BY ELLEN KANNER.  
    http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/bookreviews/bell-canner-cross.htm
    
    Extractions: $30.00 hard bound. Published Sunday, November 12, 2000, in the Miami Herald Toussaint's bloody battle for the `bauble' of Haiti Master of the Crossroads. Madison Smartt Bell. Pantheon. 752 pages. $30. BY ELLEN KANNER With this, his ninth novel, Madison Smartt Bell returns to the Haiti he so beautifully and achingly portrayed in All Souls' Rising, a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award. Both books are historical, recounting Haiti's bloody fight for independence with the country itself a crucible for racial struggle. A Tennessee native, Bell is haunted by the politics of race, and with Master of the Crossroads he provides a history lesson that tells us much about our present and, perhaps, constitutes a warning for our future. Taking up where its predecessor ended, Master of the Crossroads begins in 1794, with England, Spain and France all vying for control of the French Haitian colony Saint Domingue. The axis on which Bell's novel turns is Toussaint Louverture, the freed slave who led Haiti's revolt. "Toussaint understood the colony to be tossed among the European powers like a precious bauble, a stake or a pawn in their games of war. As yet he did not know enough to reason his way to an outcome. The bits of information he possessed lay quietly in his mind, like seeds." Toussaint is a pawn, used by France and Spain as a means by which to seize Saint Domingue, just as the rich, detached colonists toy with the lives of the poor natives, diminishing a land and its people in order to serve their selfish needs. Toussaint passes through the crossroads of countries and races, assuming the role of hero, traitor, criminal, slave, husband, general, father, pagan and Catholic.

25. Haiti: Madison Bell's Review Of Stan Goff Book: Hideous Dream
    HIDEOUS DREAM. By Stan Goff Soft Skull Press, 499 pages, $18.50 paper.Review by madison smartt bell. madison smartt bell is the author  
    http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/bookreviews/bell-on-goff.htm
    
    Extractions: From the Chicago Tribune. "Hideous Dream" is the story of the last campaign in the military career of Stan Goff: the U.S. invasion of Haiti in 1994. Goff went to Vietnam at age 18 and participated in subsequent U.S. military actions with various elite corps, including the Rangers and Delta Force, and in Haiti was master sergeant of a Special Forces A-team a group of eight men in charge of keeping order among many thousands of Haitians in the area around the town of Ft. Liberte. For its account of the recent U.S. occupation of Haiti, Goff's book merits comparison with Bob Shacochis' "Immaculate Invasion," and it provides as privileged an insight into the world of the U.S. military elite as Mark Bowden's "Black Hawk Down," about the 1993 U.S. raid in Somalia. Goff also takes a hard look at the practice that George Bush, during his recent presidential campaign, renounced as "nation-building." At the start Goff declares loudly that he is not a writer, and the book does have some organizational flaws that betray him as a novice. But his best passages are better than most pros could offer. "Above the combat patch was a blue and white airborne tab," Goff writes about insignia worn by a black drill sergeant during his basic training. "The color pierced the predawn halftones ahead of anything else, a bit of brilliance, as Smith's silhouette strode before the morning formation. The patch defeated darkness."

26. Carpe Librum - Suchen
    http://www.textgalerie.de/carpe/buch/t_bell_madison.html
    
    Extractions: Autoren oder Kategorie alle Anthologie Bestseller Biographie Briefe CD Computer Essay Fantasy Humor Jugend Kinder Klassiker Krimi Kunst Kurzprosa Land/Andere Lyrik Märchen Roman Sach SF Sonstige Theater Undefined Hilfe Buchtitel und oder Anzeige Treffer carpe librum ' ist ein Projekt von carpe.com - und © by Sabine und Oliver Gassner, 1998ff. - librum @ carpe.com Impressum Datenbank/Programmierung:

27. Carpe Librum - Suchen
    madison smartt bell Homepage. in madison smartt bell That certainlyis a staggeringly stupid remark from Douglas Coupland. When  
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    Extractions: Autoren oder Kategorie alle Anthologie Bestseller Biographie Briefe CD Computer Essay Fantasy Humor Jugend Kinder Klassiker Krimi Kunst Kurzprosa Land/Andere Lyrik Märchen Roman Sach SF Sonstige Theater Undefined Hilfe Buchtitel und oder Anzeige Treffer carpe librum ' ist ein Projekt von carpe.com - und © by Sabine und Oliver Gassner, 1998ff. - librum @ carpe.com Impressum Datenbank/Programmierung:

28. Goucher College: The Office Of Communications
    Office of Communications Public Relations. Project Baltimore MagazineProfile of madison smartt bell. Baltimore Magazine's Paul  
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29. Goucher College: The Office Of Communications
    Office of Communications Public Relations. Project Baltimore Sun Featureon English Professors madison smartt bell and Elizabeth Spires.  
    http://www.goucher.edu/officeofcommunications/communications_project_template.cf

30. Beyond 10/02: Madison Smartt Bell, Frederick Chiaventone, John Dufresne, Michael
    Beyond the Bestsellers, Fall 2002. bell, madison smartt ANYTHING GOES.When the first two words in Grantacelebrated bell's book are  
    http://www.dreamscape.com/rebrown/fall02.htm
    
    Extractions: When the first two words in Granta-celebrated Bell's book are "Curt Cobain," you know you're in uncharted territory. Cobain is offering advice to sometime lead usually bass player Jesse, who narrates this trip through snake-handler band leaders, pregnant vocalists and Black Dogs (bar/pub/honky-tonks named after the first they played). There's even a Sweet Lorraine (allusion to Country Joe purely intentional). This is one of the best rock road books (backroads) of all time. Chiaventone is a military historian and superb writer, who here depicts the Fetterman Massacre (or Fight, depending on viewpoint) which took place on a frigid windswept bluff in Wyoming the day before Christmas, 1866. Fetterman's ill-advised and contra-orders foray cost the US 80-some men, and gave Red Cloud (whose strategy is almost textbook) one of his great victories. Civil War Vet Fetterman, a popinjay, boasted that with 80 men he could "ride through the Sioux Nation": he was dead wrong. Great book. Clair, Maxine

31. Bold Type: Essay By Madison Smartt Bell
    Copyright ©2002, madison smartt bell, Photo credit Marion Ettlinger,  
    http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0702/bell/essay.html
    
    Extractions: y new novel, Anything Goes got started as a dream, the same way the opening of the novel begins (though in the book it's somebody else that dreams it), and the dream itself got started by a lot of other circumstances: nearly ten years ago I had a grant and a year off from my teaching job, but it wasn't convenient to go anywhere, so instead I bought a Les Paul. I grew up near Nashville, and played guitar and banjo since my early teens, mostly bluegrass and country blues. I'd always wanted to learn to play lead guitar, and this year seemed like a good time to do it, so I spent a lot of hours hacking along to records until I had picked up the basics. Nirvana was big then, and I had a copy of Nevermind Then Kurt Cobain showed up in one of my dreams, and explained to me how to play the song, and when I woke up I thought it might be the start of something, so I wrote a short story called "Never Mind," and when I read it over it seemed like it might be a jumping off place for a novel, so I began to write on that, in between things, and mostly just to amuse myself at first. It was a novel without much more of a plan than its characters have, which is to play music from roadhouse to roadhouse up and down the eastern seaboard, following good weather. Elsewhere, my old friend from the Hollins M.A. program, Wyn Cooper, had washed up in Vermont. He had left a Ph.D. program, for various compelling reasons, without getting the degree, and what he had to show for many years of education was a slender volume of verses called

32. All Soul's Rising (in MARION)
    All soul's rising. Title All soul's rising audiocassette / by madison smartt bell. Author  
    http://www.ccpl.org/MARION/ABU-4134

33. Lemuria Books - Madison Smartt Bell Reading
    madison smartt bell Signing Reading. Mr. bell shreds while Bill triesto act cool. madison smartt bell reads from his latest, Anything Goes.  
    http://www.lemuriabooks.com/gallery/020626.html
    
    Extractions: Email us Pick a Gallery... Madison Smartt Bell Steve Earle Robert Gordon Richard Ford Signing John Grisham Signing Nevada Barr Signing Elmore Leonard Signing More Elmore Leoard Pics! Mary Ward Brown Signing Random Christmas Season Photos Steve Earle Lemuria's Girlfriend, Kathy Hepinstall Jackson's Very Own J.C. Patterson President Jimmy Carter comes to Lemuria Historic Moment at Lemuria with William Doyle Greg Iles Night Algonquin Night! Lemuria is a dog friendly store! Lemuria Girls in Lemuria T-Shirts! James Ellroy comes to sign at Lemuria Mr. Bell shreds while Bill tries to act cool. "Just take the damn picture." Madison Smartt Bell reads from his latest, Anything Goes Mr. Bell brings his characters to life in

34. HoCoPoLitSo - The Writing Life - Michael Collier Hosting Madison Smartt Bell
    madison smartt bell chats with host Michael Collier. HoCoPoLitSo presentsmadison smartt bell, author of thirteen novels, talking  
    http://www.hocopolitso.org/The_Writing_Life/Collier-Bell2002.html
    
    Extractions: Madison Smartt Bell chats with host Michael Collier HoCoPoLitSo presents Madison Smartt Bell, author of thirteen novels, talking with friend and colleague Michael Collier. Bell is best known for his historical novels. All Souls' Rising , about the Haitian Revolution, was a finalist for both the PEN/Faulkner and National Book Awards. Master of the Crossroads was then second in Bell's projected Haitian trilogy. Anything Goes , the versatile Mr. Bell's most recent novel is very different, centering as it does on rock musicians in today's American South.

35. HoCoPoLitSo - The Writing Life - Mary Gordon Hosted By Madison Smartt Bell
    MARY GORDON HOSTED BY madison smartt bell. An encore showing of The WritingLife with Novelist Mary Gordon hosted by madison smartt bell.  
    http://www.hocopolitso.org/The_Writing_Life/Gordon-Bell1995.html
    
    Extractions: MARY GORDON HOSTED BY MADISON SMARTT BELL An encore showing of The Writing Life with Novelist Mary Gordon hosted by Madison Smartt Bell. What secrets drive a writer's work? How do they become metaphors? Mary Gordon is the highly praised author of six volumes of fiction - among them Final Payments Temporary Shelter and The Rest of Life - and one of essays, Good Boys and Dead Girls . Interviewed by friend and fellow novelist Madison Smartt Bell, she reads "Losing My Father," a chapter from her memoir, The Shadow Man Bell observes that Gordon's work, though often centered on domesticity and Catholicism, takes on a larger scope. Gordon feels she treats what happens inside the mind, the balance between inside and outside worlds, the differences between ideas and how we really live. For The Shadow Man , she chose a non-fiction form because the facts she uncovered in searching for her father were so "improbable." This episode originally aired in 1995. Back

36. DM: Madison Smartt Bell Discusses Inspiration For Latest Novel
    Tuesday, December 3, 1996 © 1996 The Daily Mississippian. madison smartt Belldiscusses inspiration for latest novel. By JC Sanders Senior Staff Writer.  
    http://dm.olemiss.edu/archives/96/9612/961203/961203EN1author.HTML
    
    Extractions: Senior Staff Writer I ordered coffee, Madison a latte. Madison Smartt Bell is the author of two collections of short stories and eight novels, a National Book Award finalist for All Souls' Rising, and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1995. You can see why I, a beginning writer, was a bit nervous. But believe it or not, he appeared more nervous than me. Not due to my presence, you can be sure, but the presence of admiration. His modesty and desire to be in Baltimore writing, instead of on this book tour, caused him to shift in his seat and nervously brush hair that wasn't there out of his face.

37. 'Master Of The Crossroads' By Madison Smartt Bell
    Master of the Crossroads' by madison smartt bell. Historical novel makesHaiti slave revolt come alive. By madison smartt bell. Pantheon $30.00.  
    http://www.post-gazette.com/books/reviews/20001224review653.asp
    
    Extractions: March 23, 2003 News Sports Lifestyle Classifieds ... About Us Take me to... Search Local News Nation/World Sports Obituaries Lifestyle Business Opinion Photo Journal Weather Classifieds PG Store PG Delivery Web Extras Contact Us About Us Help Corrections Site Map Books Reviews Bob Hoover For Children ... Books This new novel does a tremendous job of capturing the turmoil, violence and chaos of Haiti’s history. Madison Smartt Bell began his trilogy of the Haitian slave revolt with the 1995 novel “All Souls’ Rising” (a finalist for the National Book Award that year). This second volume, while using many characters introduced in the first, concentrates on Toussaint L’Ouverture, the Haitian military hero, and recounts the only successful slave revolt in history. The novel opens in 1794, when the French Republic proclaims the abolition of slavery on the island of what was then called Saint Dominigue. Toussaint L’Ouverture’s revolt reflects the passion of the country, and his struggle shows the confusion of the times. Bell’s novel is atmospheric, well researched, and well written. He uses his knowledge of traditions on the island and brings to light the magnitude of what was happening at the end of the 18th century.

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    Author(s) bell, madison smartt / ISBN 0140259473 / Paperback / 11/1/1996New Copy In Stock Usually Ships in 24 hours. Used Copy  
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39. WAG: Madison Smartt Bell's Master Of The Crossroads
    madison smartt bell's Master of the Crossroads, the second volume in his projectedtrilogy about the Haitian Revolution, is a stunning achievement with a  
    http://www.thewag.net/books/bell.htm
    
    Extractions: Madison Smartt Bell's Master of the Crossroads by Doug Childers Madison Smartt Bell's Master of the Crossroads , the second volume in his projected trilogy about the Haitian Revolution, is a stunning achievement with a beautifully tragic figure at its center. I n the wake of the French Revolution, Saint Domingue (modern-day Haiti) staged its own revolt with varied motivations, as Madison Smartt Bell showed in his All Souls' Rising (a 1995 National Book Award finalist in fiction). Landowners and slave owners wanted to gain their economic independence from France (as the Americans had done fifteen years before), and both enslaved Africans and persons of mixed African / European blood wanted to make the French and American Revolution's declaration of rights apply to all people, regardless of race. While the intentions may have been noble, though, the revolt itself was not. Two thousand whites were killed and nearly two hundred sugar plantations burned, but the French National Assembly failed to issue a definitive gesture of solidarity to either side, and the warring factions themselves failed to force a military solution. Master of the Crossroads

40. The Crescent Review
    bell, madison smartt, Beggarman, Thief, Volume 5, Number 1, Reprinted inZero db and Other Stories by madison smartt bell, Ticknor Fields,1987.  
    http://www.crescentreview.org/Stories/listAG.html
    
    Extractions: Ansay, A. Manette Evolution of Dreams North of Sheboygan 1986 Volume 9, Number 1 Cited by Series Editor Katrina Kenison in 100 Other Distinguished Stories in The Best American Short Stories 1992; edited by Robert Stone Ansay, A. Manette You or Me or Anything Volume 12, Number 2 Cited in 100 Distinguished Stories in Best American Short Stories 1995 Atkinson, Jay

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