Marina Salandy-Brown
Founder & Director of The Bocas Lit Fest
Marina Salandy-Brown, Bocas Lit Fest founder and President, is a T&T Newsday columnist. Her writing has appeared in international journals, magazines, and anthologies, most recently the New Daughters of Africa anthology (2019).
4:00 pm
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5:30 pm
Old Fire Station, NALIS
Discussion: They Don’t Write Them Like They Used To
Do people read the print newspapers mostly for the columns? What should good analysis in the daily press look like? Can a column in the daily newspapers be considered “literary”? And what are the legacies of late star columnists like Keith Smith, Wayne Brown, and B.C. Pires? Marina Salandy-Brown leads a discussion on the present and future of the newspaper column.Do people read the print newspapers mostly for the columns? What should good analysis in the daily press look like? Can a column in the daily newspapers be considered “literary”? And what are the legacies of late star columnists like Keith Smith, Wayne Brown, and B.C. Pires? Marina Salandy-Brown leads a discussion on the present and future of the newspaper column.