![]() Then, eyebrows raised knowingly, he told me about the presence of a Confederate monument right in the town square. “When black folks come to town, I just want to make sure they know where they’re coming,” he said. ![]() Driving past fields of juvenile cotton plants as we drew closer to Oxford, Laymon issued a quick note of caution about the “brutal niceness” of the town. En route, as we discussed the specific intimacy of knife crime, he obligingly lowered the volume on Solange and Lil Wayne so I could illustratively play him Ghetts’ verse from Stormzy’s “Bad Boys” (sample lyric: “big spear that a’ go through your belly”). ![]() He was almost apologetic when he extended the offer, but it stems from a well-honed generosity: Giving rides is a service he’s used to performing for out-of-town guests. To visit the writer Kiese Laymon in the town where he lives and teaches, you have to fly to Memphis International Airport in Tennessee and then, if you don’t drive, like me, hitch a ride from there to Oxford, Mississippi. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A year later, Jonathan Cape published the novel in London under the title Fiesta. The novel was published in the United States in October 1926 by Scribner's. Hemingway biographer Jeffrey Meyers writes that it is now "recognized as Hemingway's greatest work" and Hemingway scholar Linda Wagner-Martin calls it his most important novel. An early modernist novel, it received mixed reviews upon publication. The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, his first, that portrays American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. The Hellenistic jacket design "breathed sex yet also evoked classical Greece". First edition of The Sun Also Rises, published in 1926 by Scribner's, with dust jacket illustrated by Cleon ( Cleo Damianakes). ![]() ![]() ![]() In that way, Down City is a chilling rebuttal to the old writing 101 adage of “write what you know. Carroll’s life story is harrowing to read on its own, but the way she meticulously processes each new detail gives the book startling clarity. There’s more than these five points, but I think these are great starters. I’ll summarize for you in my usual five points. Carroll dissects old police reports and interviews witnesses the same as she fact-checks her earliest memories: the way her father laughed, the almond-y smell in her mother’s car. THE BASICS Title: Marlena Author: Julie Buntin Genre: Contemporary Fiction Structure: Linear first-person with varying time perspectives First Line: Tell me what you can’t forget, and I’ll tell you who you are. ![]() Her father, a depressed alcoholic, died when she was 18. Who is culpable Obviously Cat isn’t, but at the same time, she’s involved. She is really looking into the eye of self-destruction she’s reached the point when thrill is replaced by need. Through sparse prose like this, Carroll writes about her parents’ deaths through disparate lenses: as a detached crime reporter, as a creative storyteller, as a victim seeking closure, as a mourning daughter.Ĭarroll’s mother disappeared when she was just old enough to remember her, murdered by two drug dealers with mafia connections. For Marlena, those repercussions are very clear: She doesn’t survive. Its main identifying building is a convention center, she writes, but there is no convention. ![]() Downcity is a section of Providence, Rhode Island that Leah Carroll describes as “sedate, nearly silent” as if the land itself is a grave. ![]() ![]() His most widely read works are Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860–1915 (1944) The American Political Tradition (1948) The Age of Reform (1955) Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1963), and the essays collected in The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964). ![]() Rejecting his earlier historical materialist approach to history, in the 1950s he came closer to the concept of " consensus history", and was epitomized by some of his admirers as the "iconic historian of postwar liberal consensus." Others see in his work an early critique of the one-dimensional society, as Hofstadter was equally critical of socialist and capitalist models of society, and bemoaned the "consensus" within the society as "bounded by the horizons of property and entrepreneurship", criticizing the "hegemonic liberal capitalist culture running throughout the course of American history". Hofstadter was the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. ![]() Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916 – October 24, 1970) was an American historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century. ![]() |