{"id":392,"date":"2010-11-20T16:57:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T20:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/?p=392"},"modified":"2010-11-20T17:18:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T21:18:04","slug":"create-dangerously-a-new-book-of-haiti-centered-essays-by-edwidge-danticat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/2010\/11\/create-dangerously-a-new-book-of-haiti-centered-essays-by-edwidge-danticat\/","title":{"rendered":"Create Dangerously, A New Book of Haiti-centered Essays by Edwidge Danticat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/files\/2010\/11\/Danticat_CREATE_art.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-396\" title=\"Danticat_CREATE_art\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/files\/2010\/11\/Danticat_CREATE_art.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/files\/2010\/11\/Danticat_CREATE_art.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/files\/2010\/11\/Danticat_CREATE_art-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously.\u00a0 This is what I\u2019ve always thought it meant to be a writer.<\/p>\n<p>-Edwidge Danticat, <em>Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looking for a great weekend read? \u00a0Grab your library card and go check out\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Create Dangerously<\/span>, Edwidge Danticat\u2019s freshly-released book of compelling, thoughtful essays on Haiti.\u00a0 Danticat is a Haitian-born writer and journalist who immigrated to the U.S. at the age of twelve.\u00a0 Now she lives in Miami, frequently returning to Haiti on assignment.\u00a0 In <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Create Dangerously<\/span>, Danticat reflects on the bravery of writers, artists, and even a radio commenter who have taken risks to convey political meaning, and the bravery of readers, viewers, and audiences who have listened.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more in <a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.publicradio.org\/\/display\/web\/2010\/11\/05\/pm-creating-art-of-chaos-in-haiti\/?refid=0&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+APM_Marketplace+%28APM%3A+Marketplace%29\">this excellent interview<\/a> of Danticat discussing her book, from American Public Media\u2019s <em>Marketplace<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=W1RfxjgxNM4C&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=create+dangerously+danticat&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=tFNYLZ33GB&amp;sig=2Az-uUhfpZ1uua6HQ5PYPSL3R6g&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=MzXoTMHnL4yr8AbQn5S8DQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CBYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">read an excerpt<\/a> from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Create Dangerously<\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Create-Dangerously-by-Edwidge-Danticat\/129226157093657\">join the book\u2019s Facebook group<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borders.com\/online\/store\/TitleDetail?type=1&amp;catalogId=10001&amp;simple=1&amp;defaultSearchView=List&amp;keyword=edwidge+danticat+create+dangerously&amp;LogData=%5Bsearch%3A+11%2Cparse%3A+20%5D&amp;searchData=%7BproductId%3Anull%2Csku%3Anull%2Ctype%3A1%2Csort%3Anull%2CcurrPage%3A1%2CresultsPerPage%3A25%2CsimpleSearch%3Atrue%2Cnavigation%3A5185%2CmoreValue%3Anull%2CcoverView%3Afalse%2Curl%3Arpp%3D25%26view%3D2%26type%3D1%26nav%3D5185%26simple%3Dtrue%26book_search%3Dedwidge%2Bdanticat%2Bcreate%2Bdangerously%2Cterms%3A%7Bbook_search%3Dedwidge+danticat+create+dangerously%7D%7D&amp;storeId=13551&amp;sku=0691140189&amp;ddkey=http:SearchResults\">purchase a copy of your own<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously.\u00a0 This is what I\u2019ve always thought it meant to be a writer. -Edwidge Danticat, Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work Looking for a great weekend read? \u00a0Grab your library card and go check out\u00a0Create Dangerously, Edwidge Danticat\u2019s freshly-released book of compelling, thoughtful essays on Haiti.\u00a0 Danticat is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}