Day: November 14, 2005

Ernest Gaines’ Emphatic Projection

When Ernest J. Gaines was growing up, it was against the law in Louisiana for a black person to walk into a public library.

At the age of fifteen, Gaines left his home in Point Coupee, Louisiana to reunite with his mother and stepfather in California, entering his first library … Read the rest

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Reviewing the Review: Nov. 13, 2005

David Orr tackles the popularization of poetry in today’s New York Times Book Review, outlining a controversy that’s been brewing between Garrison Keillor and several traditionalists. Keillor has published two anthologies of homespun-flavored poetry selections, enraging the academic, critical and publishing communities by committing the unspeakable crime of selling tons … Read the rest

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