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...early letter to Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten comments that "there are so many things that one can't talk about in a letter." This passing remark stands as a challenge to the reader of Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964. For while the whole of a relationship may not be captured in its letters, many of its details and complications lay buried within and between the lines, waiting to be uncovered. Emily Bernard's extensive collection and study of the 39-year correspondence between two of the Harlem Renaissance...
...Bernard's main short-comings, it seems, stem from her most impressive achievements. Indeed, having so thoroughly placed this relationship within the context of the New York literary scene of the 1920s in the introduction, she then leaves the reader wondering where this correspondence fits within the context of each writer as correspondent in general: Was this a unique relationship to either writer? Are the themes and concerns discussed in these letters echoed in other correspondences? It would be interesting to consider how these issues played out in the larger story of the Harlem Renaissance. The questions raised...
...Take, say, web writers. We don't get royalties. We get a salary and our masters sell ads. And if a reader likes a TIME.com column enough to pass copies around to all their friends, heck - none of us bats an eye. The more the merrier is the name of the game - we don't care how readers get ahold of the stuff, as long as you remember our name and look...
...AIDS CRISIS TUGGED AT YOUR HEARTSTRINGS, BUT NOT EVERYONE WHO READ OUR STORY AGREED ON WHAT SHOULD BE DONE ABOUT IT. "Why should the U.S. fund Africa's denial when the answer to stopping this disease rests in the Africans' own hands?" an Arizona reader asked. "Is there a kit for castration? I'd gladly take out a loan to finance one," fumed one of our readers in Illinois, who was outraged by a comment from a Botswana truck driver who said he used prostitutes because "I'm human. I'm a man. I have to have sex." Following...
...appointed four founding members: Nancy Kelem, a reader who canceled her TIME subscription owing to the indecency of my columns; Nancy's 87-year-old mother, who, not knowing about her daughter's feelings, keeps clipping out my columns and mailing them to her; Sandra Bernhard, who hung up on me during an interview and then called my boss demanding I be fired; and my mother, because she totally freaks every time I mention...