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...Ellison, head TF for the "Literature and Arts C-37: The Bible and its Interpreters," says he has seen cases where teachers have been squeezed out because of under-enrollment...
...Ennis Cosby lying dead in the road. However, it's sad that such a request would probably have gone unheeded had it been someone else's son. Dignity is not accorded the common man by the media. But such insensitive publicity is a practice that must stop. MIMI JONES-ELLISON Coraopolis, Pennsylvania...
...lying dead in the road. However, I am saddened to note that such a request would probably have gone unheeded had it been someone else's son. Dignity is not allowed the common man by the media. But insensitive publicity is a practice that must stop. MIMI JONES-ELLISON Coraopolis, Pennsylvania...
...renderings of a black preacher's rolling sermon or the colorful chit-chat among the locals in a general store, Mosley displays a pitch-perfect gift for capturing the cadences of black speech that rivals the dialogue in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. Mosley, the son of a black maintenance supervisor and a white Jewish mother, has, like Ellison, a nuanced appreciation for black-white relationships that goes beyond the stereotypes that mar much recent fiction by black authors. Gone Fishin', of course, is not in Invisible Man's league; few novels are. But it firmly establishes Mosley...
...rich characterizations and astute social observations. "In his renderings of a black preacher?s rolling sermon or the colorful chit-chat among the locals in a general store, Mosley displays a pitch-perfect gift for capturing the cadences of black speech that rivals the dialogue in Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man,'" White notes. "'Gone Fishin',' of course, is not in 'Invisible Man's' league; few novels are. But it firmly establishes Mosley as a writer whose work transcends the thriller category and qualifies as serious literature. The big mystery is why any publisher would ever have turned it down...