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| Tired of Being Black offers a fresh perspective on the struggles and stereotypes of the black race from a man who personified most of... There's A Lobster Loose! For more than ten years, five would-be writers have somehow managed to discard infirmity, tragedy, parental...
In 2008, the United States made history when it elected the first African American to serve as its country's president. This was a... Kenneth Gwynne was five years old when his father ran away with Rachel Carter, a widow. This was in the spring of 1812, and in the fall...
Interview With A Boomer Living Through A Phenomenon Do you can recall where you were, what you were doing, and who you were doing it with... Black Cool explores the ineffable state and aesthetic of Black Cool. From the effortless reserve of Miles Davis in khakis on an early...
When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I... The Negritude movement was initiated in the 1930s by the sisters Jane and Paulette Nardal, who created a journal called The Review of the...
Although he spent the bulk of his life in Oxford, Mississippi-far removed from the intellectual centers of modernism and the writers who... Sometime in the early nineteenth century, most likely in the year 1818, the Reverend Robert Scott, minister of the parish of Glenbuchat...
Shaping Memories offers short essays by notable black women writers on pivotal moments that strongly influenced their careers. With... William Faulkner grew up and began his writing career during a time of great cultural upheaval, especially in the realm of sexuality,...
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) prowled the streets of New Orleans from 1877 to 1888 before moving on to a new life and global fame as a... Larry Brown and the Blue-Collar South considers the writer's full body of work, placing it in the contexts of southern literature,...
This volume is a facsimile of one of the original copies sent to the eminent geologist Leonard Horner. The volume also includes sample... College years -- when ideas collide, literature intrigues and inspires, lasting passions are first fired -- can stamp a young writer for...
One of the foremost critics in contemporary American letters, Christopher Benfey has long been known for his brilliant and incisive... This is the first e-book in a five-volume electronic edition that includes the texts of every known letter written by Samuel L. Clemens...
This is the second e-book in a five-volume electronic edition that includes the texts of every known letter written by Samuel L. Clemens... This is the third e-book in a five-volume electronic edition that includes the texts of every known letter written by Samuel L. Clemens...
This is the fourth e-book in a five-volume electronic edition that includes the texts of every known letter written by Samuel L. Clemens... This is the fifth e-book in a five-volume electronic edition that includes the texts of every known letter written by Samuel L. Clemens...
Irreverent, charming, eminently quotable, this handbook-an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race-contains sixty-nine aphorisms,... A selection of the best writing, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and blogs, published during 2011. Edited by Dave Eggers.
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