Black Lives Matter, recent reads
Black lives matter. These are among my favorite reads — novels, plays, poetry, nonfiction — about Black lives in America and overseas. Each is illuminating, infuriating, heartbreaking. Native Son, by Richard Wrignt (1940) Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison (1952) The Street, by Ann Petry (1946)  Random Family, by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (2003) A Raisin
(...)Books: Reading Pytonga, Part 2
I’m always reading but I read most in or near a cabin in the woods, in Quebec, Canada, beside Lac Pytonga. Days are long and lazy there (well, I did take some epic runs) and nights are free of the usual distractions, since there’s no t.v. and no Internet and no cell service and someone
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