Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- V.S. Naipaul ("The Masque of Africa") w/George Andreou:
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Description of Pictures: V.S. Naipaul: The Masque of Africa:
From Uganda to Ghana and Nigeria, around the Ivory Coast and Gabon, and on to South Africa, the Nobel laureate’s latest work of travel and culture looks at the role of belief throughout the African continent. Considering native faiths based in animism as well as religions introduced from other areas of the world, Naipaul has synthesized a wide range of history, practices, and peoples to tell one more portion of the larger story of human civilization.
V. S. Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He is the author of more than 20 books, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and The Writer and the World.
Speakers in sequence:
* Mike Giarratano (Politics and Prose),
* Jackie Leventhal (Sixth and I),
* V.S. Naipaul in conversation with his editor, George Andreou.
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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
VJNAIP_101021_064.JPG: Mike Giarratano (Politics and Prose)
VJNAIP_101021_086.JPG: V.S. Naipaul
VJNAIP_101021_090.JPG: George Andreou and V.S. Naipaul
VJNAIP_101021_091.JPG: Jackie Leventhal and V.S. Naipaul
VJNAIP_101021_101.JPG: VJ Naipaul
VJNAIP_101021_148.JPG: Jackie Leventhal
VJNAIP_101021_151.JPG: V.S. Naipaul
VJNAIP_101021_231.JPG: V.S. Naipaul
VJNAIP_101021_268.JPG: George Andreou
VJNAIP_101021_401.JPG: George Andreou (his editor) and V.S. Naipaul
VJNAIP_101021_729.JPG: Author Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "Vidia" Naipaul (V.S. Naipaul), passed on August 11, 2018. Best known for "A Bend in the River" (1979), he was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories," being compared with Joseph Conrad ("Heart of Darkness"). He's shown here at Sixth and I Historic Synagogue in 2010.
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2010 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used the Fuji S100fs until the third one broke and I started sending them back for repairs. Then I used either the Fuji S200EHX or the Nikon D90 until I got the S100fs ones repaired. At the end of the year I bought a Nikon D5000 but I returned it pretty quickly.
Trips this year:
Civil War Trust conferences (Lexington, KY and Nashville, TN), and
my 5th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Los Angeles).
My office at the main Commerce Department building closed in October and I was shifted out to the Bureau of the Census in Suitland Maryland. It's good to have a job of course but that killed being able to see basically any cultural events during the day. There's basically nothing of interest that you can see around the Census building.
Number of photos taken this year: about 395,000..
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