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Award-winning novelist and author Doris MayLessing has explored the colonial experiences ofSouthern Africa in her works. She is currently afellow in literary scholarship in English andAmerican studies at the University of East Angliain England...
...autobiographical version while, in another version, he emphasized the importance of his Black mother to his quest for a viable personhood in our white supremacist-riddled American society. From Frederick Douglass, through James Weldon Johnson (head of the NAACP in the 1930s), to Jean Toomer (a major novelist of the New Negro Movement in the 1920s through 1930s), and down to the many many thousands of mixed-heritage African-Americans today, there has been and remains a perpetual juggling of the meanings (self-meanings) stemming from one's biracial realities...
...year on average. "The great advantage to the superstores is simply that they buy more titles," says Roger Straus, president of the venerable publishing house Farrar Straus & Giroux. "More books in the best-seller echelon are being sold, and it would be unfair to say that the first-time novelist will be hurt by superstores...
Only a foolhardy or a thoroughly self-confident novelist would risk such a potential yawn inducer, and Peter Ackroyd decidedly belongs in the second category. The author of biographies of T.S. Eliot and Charles Dickens and of seven earlier novels, including The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde and Chatterton, Ackroyd has moved skillfully and often between the provinces of fact and fiction, with particular attention paid to the muzzy, fuzzy border between the two. By the time the historical Marx and Gissing and the imagined Cree sit together in silence in the Reading Room, the books they choose not only...
...sounds like a monologue joke: DAVID LETTERMAN'S ratings have dipped so much that SALMAN RUSHDIE hides out on his show. The novelist, introduced as a man "who doesn't get out very often," handed over the Top 10 List on Friday's Late Show in London. "If you need me, I'll be at the London Plaza Hotel," joked Rushdie, who is in hiding from a death sentence under Islamic law. He later talked with Letterman's mom. "Exchanging recipes," said Dave...