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Out of the Depths (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
I was in St. Louis on Tuesday with my son who was interviewing for med school at St. Louis University. While there and waiting on him, I wandered down a hallway toward the downstairs bookstore and came across an administrative department concerned with their research program. They had this very interesting quote on their bulletin board. This caught my attention because research and development has...
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The Film Doctor (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
In this narcissistic age of Reality TV , Black Friday , melancholy war-based video games , gender-biased oppression at home, kids returning to the nest, and Zombie buildings , it is important to give thanks for ---inventive new ways to film people being thrown from windshields, ---new websurfing and Twitter techniques, --- Blazing Saddles , --- drawing , --- Robert Altman , ---dystopic vampire films...
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NewBlackMan (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Oprah Winfrey announced that she will be ending her popular talk show in 2011, after 25 years on the air. Though the program made Winfrey one of the most visible and wealthy women in the world, some thought her little more than a post-modern “mammy. ” *** Post-Modern Mammy': The Oprah Legacy By Mark Anthony Neal Talk show host and media mogul Oprah Winfrey announced that she will end her...
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Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
It's one of those statements that jolts you, revealing yet another decline of the once-noble American culture into the marshes of insipidity. For in the mind of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley (and probably many other celebrity worshipers), Oprah Winfrey, a New Age egotist who talks about mostly inane, irrelevant topics on a TV program, soars above all mothers, scientists, political leaders, doctors,...
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White Readers Meet Black Authors (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
This public service announcement brought to you by White Readers Meet Black Authors is to remind you to pick up a book by a black author while you're doing your Chrismukkwanza shopping next month. The idea behind NBABBABAAGITSNBM is that we educate our paler (or equally pale) brethren who may not be hip to great books by black authors. However, it is perfectly cool to celebrate the holiday by buying...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Zadie Smith's passion for writing and film shines through in this sparkling collection of criticism, says an admiring Peter Conrad For Zadie Smith, criticism is a bodily pleasure, not an abstracted mental operation. Reading, like eating, caters to her ravenous but discriminating appetite: she finds the essence of Kafka in a sliver of words from his diary, carved, she says, as thin as Parma ham and...
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Isak (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Catch Zadie Smith's interview on NPR about her writing process and her new book: Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays. There's also an excerpt of the book available on the NPR site, as well as a review. And frankly, it looks quite good. Heller McAlpin says this about it: Whether writing about Foster Wallace, Forster or Zora Neale Hurston, Smith shows a deeply intellectual and continually evolving appreciation...
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Campaign For Liberty Blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
By Anthony Gregory Although the statist left wishes to monopolize the anti-racist cause, the true American legacy against racial oppression is more tied up with classical liberalism and individual liberty. See Jonathan Bean on the controversy his book Race and Liberty has ellicted. The socialists argue that capitalism, individualism, constitutional federalism and commercial liberty have always been...
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The Liberal Curmudgeon (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan In The 1920s by Ann Douglas. 606 pp. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (paperback) While the 1960s are associated with the counterculture, Ann Douglas makes the case in “Terrible Honesty” for the cultural breakthroughs that took place during the 1920s. Leading the charge were prominent black and white artists–a “mongrel” group that shook off...
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Naki (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
My novel GLORIOUS was six years in the making and now it's just six months away from publication. The story first came to me in 2004 as I sat in my kitchen sipping tea when I became suddenly was aware of the presence of two women, who I will contend until the day I die, were the spirits of Zora Neale Hurston and Nella Larsen. I listened to what they had to say and then went to my office and typed out...
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Tayari's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I actually have a lot of links to share, but I noticed a cluster on a particular theme. Many writers, mostly women, are speaking out against the ways that systems of power and opression are affecting artists and their art. These trends are very disturbing, but I am not sure what can be done about it... Victoria Chang points out what everybody noticed, but no one wanted to say: Black women and Asian-Americans...
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Naki (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Thanks to the blog Color Online which profiled Speak So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Lucy Anne Hurston. thus reminding me that I owned this wonderful piece of work. Yesterday, I posted about the more things change in publishing the more they stay the same and even though many times I blog from a place of pure frustration when it comes to the subject of Seg-Book-gation - it...
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365 Gay News (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Zora Neale Hurston, a folklorist, novelist and anthropologist, was a staple figure during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Damon Root, over at libertarian website Reason's website, writes about a recent analysis of this blog's namesake (hat tip: Adlyn Morrison ): "In the latest New Republic , historian Steven Hahn has a long and very interesting review of the recent Booker T. Washington biography Up from History . As Hahn discusses, Washington famously championed economic advancement and education over political activism...
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Daylight Atheism (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
I'm especially pleased to be able to showcase this new poet in this week's edition of Poetry Sunday. In the past, I've highlighted the lives and the accomplishments of famous African-American freethinkers like W.E.B. DuBois and Zora Neale Hurston, showing that religious skepticism and freethought have always played a lively role in the American black [...]
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