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...attempt to stay sane,” listening to the poems, one had a sensation of being lost in private words and myriad details. As she slipped between spiritual trance, dream, and actuality, the process of creation was made evident, but the saturation of ideas was largely inaccessible upon first hearing. It was hard not to become enraptured with Graham’s prayer, as her voice is so compelling and forceful, yet to understand her personal catechism, it is likely necessary to actually read Overlord...
...Upon further reflecting, he says, “I blame it on the freshman girls,” he says. Apparently personal ties to the freshman class (his girlfriend) make him a highly desirable download...
Nancy Rawles, who won an American Book Award for her 1998 novel, Love Like Gumbo, has built her latest book, My Jim, upon this controversial character. “Upon,” and not “about,” is the right word: Rawles takes Jim less as the subject than as the starting point of a narrative dominated by the strong-willed women who tell it. In fact, although the book jacket proclaims My Jim a “nuanced critique of the great American novel,” it makes little direct contact with Twain?...
Rawles’ characters have many heartbreaking moments—particularly, it seems, where their author is least self-conscious about breaking our hearts. Sadie’s interactions with the pitiless Mas Stevens, whom she is first called upon to cure and to whom she is later sold, are far more effective than any of her more explicit sermonizing (e.g., “Whites always telling us don’t steal don’t lie don’t cheat. And here they come stealing us and lying to us and cheating us out our freedom...
...musicians—those who can act. Those who can create a character wholly different from themselves, whose experiences may be completely foreign and exotic, and then still manage to find some kind of universal emotional truth with which to imbue that character on stage. There are hundreds upon hundreds of musicians out there who can scream through blatantly personal songs about girls they dated or political issues that anger them, but precious few can truly illustrate a life that they themselves never led. Perhaps Meloy himself put it best in his “Here I Dreamt...