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Madison Smartt Bell
Madison Smartt Bell is director of the Kratz Center for Creative Writing at Goucher College. Master of the Crossroads, the second novel in his trilogy about the Haitian Revolution, will be published by Pantheon in the fall.
Recent Writing
Soul in a Bottle
It was normal and usual for a foreigner, a blan, to go through a period of anxiety and fear while planning a trip to Haiti. Perhaps it was even sensible. For Haitians of the diaspora, the risk of visiting their country was much greater, but I had taken to observing certain Haitian practices before I bought my ticket: consulting all available oracles and examining the bird entrails with great care.Issue 14
Action de Grace
Every time I went to Haiti I felt I was going to die there. It wasn’t because I wanted to or intended to court the risk.Issue 10
Sa’m Pèdi
A novelist visits Haiti to research its history and finds a country suspended between past and present uprisingsIssue 09 / Issue 24/25 / In Fact
