Welcome to Huki Links – highlighting some of our favorite literary links and more from across the ‘net!
For more about Huki-Links, check out our inaugural post. The best part of the “huki” is that we all pull together, if you find any fun or interesting book related links/articles please feel free to share them via comments or contact us!
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–Writing da Tail: A Linked Community Story. See the story everyone’s one sentence contribution at the Hawaii Book and Music Festival created!
-Want to know what literary conferences are coming up this summer? Check out our post here.
-Did you see any of these 6 Types of People You Meet at the Hawaii Book and Music Festival this past weekend?
-And re-live the best of Hawaii publishing here with the 2014 Ka Palapala Pookela Award winners.
Hawaii Literary
-Teaser trailer for Under the Blood Red Sun, based on the book by Graham Salisbury:
-Painting with Words has a new video interview with local writers Lisa Linn Kanae and Gail Harada.
-New book from The Descendants author Kaui Hart Hemmings: The Possibilities from Simon & Schuster.
-Speaking of which, here is an interview with Hemmings from Book Page.
-2014 Elliot Cades Award winning poet Wing Tek Lum talks briefly with Noe Tanigawa on HPR.
-Profile of Hawai’i jazz musician Gabe Baltazar, Jr. including mention of his autobiography If It Swings, It’s Music on Voices of America.
-Watermark Publishing has a great Facebook gallery of Darien Gee’s six-word memoir exercise from the Hawaiʻi Book and Music Festival.
-From KITV4: Hawaii Book and Music Festival draws literature loving crowds
-The Institute of Museum and Library Services interviews Hawaii State Public Library System’s head librarian.
-New from Tinfish Press: PROPOSED ADDITIONS, by Donovan Kūhiō Colleps, has arrived!
-Poet Frances H. Kakugawa faces a frightening racist-infused situation and responds in kind with poetic words.
-First glimpse at Linda Nagata’s The Red: Trials.
-Join the Summer Reading Program at your nearest library. Sign-ups start on May 27.
–UH-Hilo Faculty Honored at Hawaii Book Awards Ceremony
-For fun: The Mermaid That Visited Hawaii is one of many Lousy Book Covers.
General Literary
-Amazon book list reveals what’s hot in American regional cuisine. Yes, Hawaii is included!
-271 Years Before Pantone, an Artist Mixed and Described Every Color Imaginable in an 800-Page Book
–Top 10 novels inspired by Shakespeare
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