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The following passage by Enrique Hank Lopez, “Back to Bachimba,”
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
The PR person for Latinos pro Derechos Humanos, Manolo Gomez, who’d arranged the radio “debate,” was beaten and left for dead in an alley. His car was firebombed. He was also fired from his job as an editor for the Spanish-language edition of Cosmopolitan magazine because he’d made public declarations about his homosexuality.
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
INTRODUCTION
Barry H. Lopez • Of Wolves and Men (Scribner Classics)
While we still seem to be caught in the treacherous segue between stories, those cast as victims in old master narratives are writing themselves anew.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
He conducts an ongoing interrogation about what it all means. What’s black culture? What’s hip-hop? What are the responsibilities of a society and the people in it? And his inquiry isn’t bloodlessly academic, either; there’s something very consequential about his approach.