If you’re going to Left Coast Crime (or even if you’re not) here is a must read. The book is Honolulu Stories:Voices of the Town Through the Years, Two Centuries of Writing.. Edited by Gavan Daws and Bennett Hymer,published by Mutual Publishing, 2008.
Honolulu Stories is over 250 stories, poems, essays and excerpts from famous and not famous writers about Honolulu. Authors include nineteenth century authors such as Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson and twenty-first century authors such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Paul Theroux and Susanna Moore. There are contributions from residents such as Frank De Lima and Haunani Kay-Trask and former residents such as my sister, Mary Troy. Read more…
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Christine Thomas reviewed our latest anthology Honolulu Stories and has given us permission to repost her original review. To see more from her site visit www.LiteraryLotus.com
Honolulu Stories: Two Centuries of Writing
Edited by Gavan Daws and Bennett Hymer
Mutual; 1117 pages; $35
Reviewed by Christine Thomas
Published 6/22 in the Honolulu AdvertiserHad “Honolulu Stories” editors Gavan Daws and Bennet Hymer included the full text of each story included in this mammoth, 1000 plus-page collection of Honolulu portraits from the nineteenth century to the present, it would be even more intimidating to crack open. Read more…
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GUEST: GAVAN DAWS
FIRST AIR DATE: 6/10/08
Aloha no and welcome to Long Story Short. I’m Leslie Wilcox of PBS Hawaii. Today, on Long Story Short, we get to share stories with a professional storyteller best known as an author, Gavan Daws. Read more…
Posted on June 9th, 2008 by admin
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We are happy to share pictures and a short video from our April 23rd launch party at Coffee Talk. Many writers, families and friends showed up for this event which included food, drinks and of course a few stories. To see more click here or visit our launch party page located on the right side.
Posted on May 13th, 2008 by admin
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Hawai’i has never seen a book like this - hundreds of the voices of Honolulu, alive on the page, telling the story of the town over the years, from tiny village to raucous whaling port to capitol of the Hawaiian kingdom to twenty-first-century multicultural metropolis, flanked by Waikiki on one side and Pearl Harbor on the other.
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Honolulu Stories contain hundreds of stories about Honolulu - past and present.
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Many writers have contributed their stories through their knowledge, experience, ideas, and daily living in the historic and modern town of Honolulu.
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