“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
Los Angeles Review of Books
Roger Bonair Agard
ROGER BONAIR-AGARD is a native of Trinidad & Tobago and author of two collections of poetry; tarnish & masquerade(Cypher Books, 2006) and Gully(Cypher Books/Peepal Tree Press 2010). He is Artistic Director and co-founder of NYC's LouderARTS project and poet-in-residence at Young Chicago Authors. An MFA candidate at University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast Program, Roger has played soccer at the varsity college, and adult amateur/semi-pro level.
Genres
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More