Archive for July, 2011
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God Bless You, Gertrude
Posted on July 11, 2011 | No CommentsYou have only to open the Library of America’s sterling edition of Gertrude Stein’s “Writings, 1903-1932,” to find what you are looking for in terms of inspiration. She changed everything, and she can change your mind with a glance of... -
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Posted on July 11, 2011 | No CommentsThe young author of “Harlem is Nowhere,” (http://sharifarhodespitts.com/harlem-is-nowhere/) in repose. In New Orleans. At home in the world, which is “nowhere,” that is, an ever present state, her home being herself, sometimes... -
New Orleans (for Truman)
Posted on July 11, 2011 | No CommentsIn 1946, when he was roughly twenty-two years old, Truman Capote published an essay about his home town–New Orleans. In that beautiful piece of writing, the author observed: “New Orleans streets have long, lonesome perspectives; in empty hours their atmosphere...
