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		Of Long Memory Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers By Adam Nossiter Published by Da Capo Press www.dacapopress.com "A hard book to put down precisely because it vividly reminds [us] of our past and provides hope that history has something to teach us." —Washington Post On June 12, 1963, Miississippi's rising NAACP star, Medgar Evers, was gunned down by a white supremacist named Byron de la Beckwith. Beckwith escaped conviction twice at the hands of all-white Southern juries, and his crirne went unpunished for more than three decades. In 1994 a prosecuting attorney, Bobby DeLaughter, once again indicted Beckwith, and successfully won a conviction. In his new afterword to Of Long Memory, Adam Nossiter, a reporter who covered Beckwith's trial, reconsiders racism in the South and reveals how an entire community of Southerners painfully confronted their past by reviving multiple civil rights cases in addition to the case against Beckwith. In the tradition of Taylor Branch's classic Parting the Water's, this is a remarkable look at the transformation of racial issues in our time— from the 1960s through the end of the twentieth century. Praise for Of Long Memory: "Shows how the first political assassination of the 1960s, intended to squelch the civil rights movement, actually galvanized it." —New York Times Book Review "A fine history of Mississippi's political, social, and racial evolution." —Philadelphia Inquirer "Filled with such dramatic, revelatory scenes, which prove Nossiter to be a perceptive, observant journalist. They are not likely to be forgotten soon by readers." —Kirkus About the Author: Adam Nossiter has been a journalist in the South for over fifteen years and covered Mississippi for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for four years, which led to Of Long Memory. He writes for the New York Times and The Nation, among others, and is the author of-the recent historical memoir The Algeria Hotel. He lives in New Orleans. This website: Copyright © 2003 Dream World Media, LLC. / Urban Mozaik Magazine. All rights reserved. The opinions expressed in Urban Mozaik Magazine are not necessarily those of Urban Mozaik Magazine and the publisher cannot be held responsible for them. This website/publication, in whole or in part, may not be reproduced without written permission from the publisher.		Banana Boys By Terry Woo Published by The Riverbank Press, an imprint of Cormorant Books In this groundbreaking first novel, Terry Woo presents a circle of friends unique in North American fiction: a contemporary group of young, educated, largely middle-class Chinese-Canadian men. Juk Sing. Banana Boys. Yellow on the outside, white on the inside. Luke, David, Mike and Sheldon have known each other since university. Mike is a perpetual student, working listlessly toward a graduate degree in Biology at the University of Toronto; Luke, whose parents' marriage fell apart when he was ten is an audience-shocking host of the Morning Mosh at an alternative radio station; Dave, born in Southwestern Ontario, and the cynic of the group, debugs Internet and multimedia applications at a software company that never sleeps; Sheldon, who grew up on the East Coast, toils dutifully as an installations foreman for a gas company. The four have come together to pay their last respects to Rick, the fifth, and slightly aloof, member of the group of friends. Rick was a driven, fast-rising management consultant, who, it seemed, was able to totally reinvent himself.  On the surface, Rick appeared to have it all, yet he was found dead in his living room, apparently having committed suicide. The funeral provides the starting point for the stories of the intertwined lives of a group caught in cultural and social limbo. Not quite Canadian, and certainly not Chinese, the Banana Boys stumble through the incidents of everyday life-their interactions with family, girlfriends, objects of desire, co-workers, and each other-always conscious of the divide between their Chinese roots and the mainstream of North American society.  Banana Boys explores the nature of identity, and, through the hopes and dreams of the group of friends, ultimately reveals the possibilities each man holds within himself. Peppered with piercing insights and laced with comic anecdotes, Banana Boys provides unforgettable texture to the ordinary - and extraordinary - tribulations of being twentysomething, male, and Asian in North America. TERRY WOO is CBC (Canadian-born Chinese) and lives in Toronto. An engineering graduate from the University of Waterloo, he currently works for a software company. For fun, he likes to spin records in clubs. He also took a year off to write fiction-and the result is Banana Boys. Terry is a voice from a new generation of Canadians. Banana Boys was shortlisted for the 1999 Asian-Canadian Writer's Workshop Award. For more information visit www.bananaboys.com.