Posts Tagged with ‘Books:America’
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The Man Who Lived Underground – Richard Wright
25 Sep 2021Richard Wright’s recently published The Man Who Who Lived Underground, (2021),was itself buried for years in the catacombs of Yale’s…
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Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston
18 Sep 2021The title line in Zora Neale Hurston‘s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) comes a good way into the novel. …
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All The Kings Men: Old Templates for New Demagogues
18 Jul 2018After recent study and due consideration I can say with certainty that to call President Trump the reincarnation of…
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A House Divided: Vituperation in the Beginning
11 Jul 2017One great thing about long driving trips is the time available to listen to good books. On a trip to…
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James Baldwin: The Voice and the Image
23 Mar 2017Listening to Adam Lazzare-White read James Baldwin’s Go Tell it On the Mountain, is as close to being in a…
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Night train From Prague — a Book Left Behind
19 May 2014I bought Night train From Prague by Cheryl Harlick to read on my own night train to Prague, thinking it would be…
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A Jail Break Against the Draft
05 May 2014On my way down to spend a week in the Mojave desert I queued up Edward Abby‘s Desert Solitaire on…
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The Things They Carried – Writing About War
04 Feb 2014The last American troops left Vietnam over 40 years ago but the war goes on. Tens of thousands of veterans…
