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AWP21—Jeffrey Colvin
Manage episode 302878358 series 2090480
AWP 21 Episode—Jeffrey Colvin (Day 2, Episode 1)
We talk to Jeffrey Colvin about his stunning new book, Africaville. Jeffrey Colvin is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Harvard, and Columbia where he earned an MFA in fiction. He is also a member of the National Book Critics Circle and is assistant editor at Narrative Magazine. His debut novel, Africaville, is an expansive book, a genealogy of sorts that follows several family trees who have intertwined branches in an enclave in Halifax, Nova Scotia, called Woods Bluff and then later named Africaville.
Honorable mentions:
The 2001 New York Times article about Africville that spurred Colvin’s novel
Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Credit: Nina Subin
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74 episodes
Manage episode 302878358 series 2090480
AWP 21 Episode—Jeffrey Colvin (Day 2, Episode 1)
We talk to Jeffrey Colvin about his stunning new book, Africaville. Jeffrey Colvin is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Harvard, and Columbia where he earned an MFA in fiction. He is also a member of the National Book Critics Circle and is assistant editor at Narrative Magazine. His debut novel, Africaville, is an expansive book, a genealogy of sorts that follows several family trees who have intertwined branches in an enclave in Halifax, Nova Scotia, called Woods Bluff and then later named Africaville.
Honorable mentions:
The 2001 New York Times article about Africville that spurred Colvin’s novel
Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
![](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/555b7a70e4b0449fabce4784/1630400727875-G7R766O8SJ0WOP5TD0UY/Jeffrey_Colvin-0019512__1_.jpg?format=1000w)
Credit: Nina Subin
![](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/555b7a70e4b0449fabce4784/1630618638308-7HHR9GYVJOUIT49URLC3/911H-LJnkFL.jpg?format=1000w)
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