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All I learned was the letter x so I could sign my name at the bank.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
The teacher looked at her, looked away, and instead called on a White hand as soon as it was raised. As the Black girl’s arm came down, I could see her head going down. As I saw her head going down, I could see her spirits going down. I turned and looked up at the teacher, who, of course, was not looking at me. She was too busy engaging a favored W
... See moreIbram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century: “I Loved Him. He Was My Safety.”
Vincenzo Barneyvanityfair.com
she was a pistol, utterly unafraid to speak truth, no matter how ugly, to anyone, no matter how powerful.
Sam Wasson • The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
She mailed the marked-up copy to Harold Ross, the founding editor, and Ross was said to have bellowed. What he bellowed was “Find this bitch and hire her!”
John McPhee • Draft No. 4
She was cast as the understudy to the star, Laura Bell Bundy, in the off-Broadway musical Ruthless!
John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
In the 1930s and 1940s, Americans who had grown up in China represented important connections to the United States. The author Pearl S. Buck, who introduced China to so many American readers, had also been born to missionary parents.
Peter Hessler • Other Rivers
Her brother was a wildbuck Mexican hotcat with a hunger for booze, a great good kid.