by Lise Funderburg | Apr 16, 2009 | THE NEXT 4 YEARS, Word Up
In a shameless effort to gin up traffic for my life in a cyber-nutshell blog, the 1st, 10th, and 20th person to leave a comment anywhere on the site (I’m not talking offers for “grannyporn” or “kim kardashian nude”), will get an...
by Lise Funderburg | Apr 6, 2009 | Word Up
Here’s the new design for the paperback edition of PIG CANDY — which comes out in early May (feel free to pre-order!!). I love how this version highlights the photo of my dad as the spunky little kid that he was. Here comes trouble, no doubt about...
by Lise Funderburg | Mar 23, 2009 | Word Up
Today I met one of the actual plaintiffs from Brown v. Board of Ed — John Stokes, who wrote about his high school’s stand against Plessy v. Ferguson in the book Students on Strike. I felt that telltale chill that says: You are witnessing something world...
by Lise Funderburg | Mar 19, 2009 | Food, Word Up
Tomorrow I head down to Charlottesville for the 15th annual Virgina Festival of the Book (March 18-22). It can be hard, as an author, to be “on” for hours at a time (I participated in an author brunch recently that was like speed dating — every ten...
by Lise Funderburg | Nov 12, 2008 | Uncategorized, Word Up
Host Farai Chideya had me on today’s show to talk about race in the age of Obama. Click here to hear the segment.
by Lise Funderburg | Nov 12, 2008 | Uncategorized, Word Up
This meditation on race was originally published in Breathe magazine in 2005, but it seems to fit with at least one stream of post-election dialogue. I have a white mother and a black father. In most contexts, the white part announces itself to the world first. But I...
