Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (Vintage Books, Sep 12, 2013) Miss Anne In Harlem: The White Women Of The Black Renaissance by Carla Kaplan (HarperCollins Publishers, Sep 10, 2013) The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’S Dream by Gary Younge (Haymarket...
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“Teddy Telemachus is a charming con man with a gift for sleight of hand and some shady underground associates. In need of cash, he tricks his way into a classified government study about telekinesis and its possible role in intelligence gathering. There he meets Maureen McKinnon, and it’s...
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin has been on my TBR for as long as the above book and I’m ashamed about that as I love Baldwin’s writing and am so looking forward to reading it. I won a signed proof of Still Me by Jojo Moyes before publication and I shamefully still haven’t ...
Death is not the end and the eventual reconciliation of Demeter as the Mother, the Source of Life, with Hades, King of the Dead, via her Daughter’s union and the way they end up sharing her, as it were, is a representation of the balancing of these two engines, Death and Life, an...
What stands out about these notes is how I am emphasizing the diminishment of Wendy as a leading character in the story. She is certainly not reduced to cameo status, but one does not have the sense in the story that King sat there and ran the story line through her eyes. How would ...
VHF Salvationis a King James Version of theHoly Biblealtered with a multitude of ribbon placeholders protruding from its lower edge to provide the “very high frequency” means of “saving one’s place“. In a special issue ofVisible Language, Renée Riese Hubert describes the work as an “...
Book of the Day: This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance Today's book of the day is This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance. From the publisher: "The American writer and activist James Baldwin (...
Paradise Regained, a Poem, in IV Books, to Which Is Added Samson Agonistes 1671—English 'Lycidas' originally published in Justa Edouardo King Naufrago, 1638; revised for inclusion in Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, 1645—English A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634...
There is a library, with no one in it, the shelves filled with the sort of books one might find in a rundown second-hand bookshop, but in Bulgarian, battered and spineless, dusty, reeking of neglect. A woman’s handbag lies open on the desk and I wonder if the ticket-seller-cum-...