Why the Jamaica Novels Are Not Under My Name.
Lorna Phillips is not an invented author. It is my name — the Jamaican one, the one that came before the…
Notes from the publisher of Maroon House Press: who writes what across our pen names, which book to open first, and how an independent Caribbean press works.
Lorna Phillips is not an invented author. It is my name — the Jamaican one, the one that came before the…
There is no such thing as a neutral record. Somebody always decides what makes the show. I spent nearly two decades…
There is a version of Jamaica that exists for people who do not live there. It is warm, it is green,…
One publisher, twelve names. This is who writes what, and which book to open first. Maroon House publishes across literary fiction,…
New Eden sits above Swift River, high in the Blue Mountains of Portland Parish, Jamaica. It exists because a valley below…
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