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...Bush Administration? The next thing she knew, Staley got a call from the budget analyst on whose desk her note had landed. "And who, exactly, are you?" he inquired rather nervously. The deputy director of the National Institute for Literacy, it turns out, and a preacher's kid who grew up next door to Billy Clinton. Adult-education programs are now scheduled to receive a $95 million boost in this year's presidential budget...
They make an odd couple, White and Favre, the preacher and the former playboy, the city mouse and the country mouse. But they have a genuine liking for each other that goes beyond the fact that they're two Southerners stuck in the tundra. During a photo session last week, White nuzzled Favre's ear, causing the quarterback to say, "Reginald, please. What if I were to come home to Deanna and tell her I was leaving her for another man? Actually, if I told her it was you, she might say, 'Reggie? Oh, that...
...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...
...struggles to find a place of dignity for himself in a society that maintains, at best, only grudging respect for African Americans." As in Mosley's other novels, the plot is mostly incidental, a prop for his 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...
...regarded this instant transformation from preacher to pitchman as tainted by a touch of hypocrisy. But now I realize that Evjue was simply a man ahead of his times. Far from violating the holiday spirit, the annual orgy of consumption we so often deplore is in fact a great gift we give to our way of life...