This is the grave of Albert Murray. Born in Mobile, Alabama in 1916, Murray attended Tuskegee Institute and graduated in 1939. He started a graduate program at the University of.
It's well known that sex is very difficult to reproduce artistically in a non-disastrous way. And the only thing worth than sex in movies is sex in literature. If we.
The great writer and Nobel Prize winner V.S. Naipaul has died. Naipaul could be controversial and I sometimes thought his portrayals of non-whites could actually be near-racist themselves, especially the.
This is the grave of Marcel Proust. Born in 1871 to a wealthy family, Proust was asthmatic and sickly. He grew up and became known as a difficult snob and.
Its May 25th, you hoopy froods! The day we celebrate British author Douglas Adams and his magnum opus Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Likely everyone will be talking about the importance of.
"To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric..." Theodor W. Adorno (1) An image is worth a.
Labor Notes has an interesting survey of working-class literature, asking organizers and activists about their favorite class-conscious novels. Admittedly, when I became a professor I stopped reading novels. This is.
Philip Roth, the greatest American writer of his era, claims to have retired. In the end, this might be a good thing, assuming he really retires. While his 90s and.
