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Film, Video Camonghne Felix and Safiya Sinclair: How Honest Can I Be?

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Title

  • Camonghne Felix and Safiya Sinclair: How Honest Can I Be?

Summary

  • How much is too much to reveal in a memoir? In "How to Say Babylon," Safiya Sinclair explores her father's religious fundamentalism and its effect on her. In "Dyscalculia," Camonghne Felix divulges a love gone bad. They are members of a long honorable line of literary truthtellers who bare their hearts on the page, and discuss their work with A'Lelia Bundles at the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

Event Date

  • August 24, 2024

Running Time

  • 52 minutes 59 seconds

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Camonghne Felix and Safiya Sinclair: How Honest Can I Be?. 2024. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-11470/.

APA citation style:

(2024) Camonghne Felix and Safiya Sinclair: How Honest Can I Be?. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-11470/.

MLA citation style:

Camonghne Felix and Safiya Sinclair: How Honest Can I Be?. 2024. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/webcast-11470/>.