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Madison Smartt Bell

American Novelist

Born: Aug 1, 1957

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Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history. Madison Smartt Bell

History Revolution Rose Other State Had New Haiti Masters Western African Against Created Who European Event Founded Slaves

Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well. Madison Smartt Bell

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I had a house in Haiti, in the hills above the North Atlantic coast. The house appeared as if out of a dream: my dream to have a foothold in the country. Like many concepts do in Haiti, the phrase 'pied a terre' became literal, material. Madison Smartt Bell

Country Out Dream Phrase Atlantic Above Had Haiti Like House Concepts Hills Became Material North Literal Coast Many Appeared

I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't. Madison Smartt Bell

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John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style. Madison Smartt Bell

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