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“Blues Walk”
Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
like to toy with human thought like boys toy with beetles.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
“took Negro mothers out of white kitchens, put them in factories and shipyards. When it was all over, they went back to kitchens—but this time their own. . . . And so today in thousands of Negro homes, the Negro mother has come home, come home perhaps for the first time since 1619 when the first Negro families landed at Jamestown, Virginia.”
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
She loves feeling that every headway man tries to make
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Flipping backward through the photos, Nicholas feels the years peel off like steamed wallpaper. Always the animals.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Whoever had the apartment before me had painted the walls in wide vertical stripes in three different shades of blue. I lay on my sterilized bed and felt blue too, every shade of blue.
Anatole Broyard • Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
his life, he has been homesick.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Ralph Ellisson, dans un ouvrage célèbre, avait qualifié le Noir américain d'« homme invisible ». Mais maintenant qu'il est devenu visible ? Cette nouvelle visibilité soudaine et grandissante qui le cache, en quelque sorte, en tant qu'individu ? Un étrange retour au point de départ. Le Noir américain était réduit à la couleur de sa peau parce qu'il
... See moreRomain Gary • Chien blanc (French Edition)
In the United States in 1907, a book entitled Three Acres and Liberty seized the imagination of the reading public. The author, Bolton Hall, began by taking for granted the awkwardness of having to work for someone else, and so told readers that they could regain their freedom by leaving their offices and factories and buying three acres of farmlan
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