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The Invisible Woman of Color

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:36:22 GMT

New research finds black women are more likely to go unnoticed and unappreciated than black men or whites of either gender. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is a classic novel about a black man who feels unseen by his white neighbors.
Source: Miller-McCune

Our Man in Boston: That Write Stuff [Writing About Writers]

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:14:16 GMT

Now that I am more kindly disposed toward The Paris Review—the literary institution founded by George Plimpton and a cohort of his pals back in the wild and crazy 1950s—since they have dropped the hyperbolic “DNA of literature” slogan, I am pleased...
Source: The Morning News

Boyd Tonkin: How to ruin a great writer's good name

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:05:04 GMT

What, apart from being dead and, in their different ways, remarkable, do the following authors have in common: Kingsley Amis, Saul Bellow, Roberto Bolaño, Jorge Luis Borges, William Burroughs, Italo Calvino, John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Janet Frame,...
Source: The Independent

The literate burglar

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:43:43 GMT

Rare books provoke passion in collectors, who expend untold time and treasure in their pursuit. Some surrender their scruples, too.
Source: Boston Globe

Catastrophe Or Opportunity? Chicago's First Unionized Charter School Contract

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:23:30 GMT

Teachers at three Chicago charter schools (Civitas' Ralph Ellison Campus, Northtown Academy and Wrightwood Campus) voted overwhelmingly to ratify their contract, according to this press release from Chicago ACTS, making them the first charter schools...
Source: ChicagoNow

Sarah Churchwell on writers and editors

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:06:59 GMT

Tess Gallagher and her husband, Raymond Carver, 1984. Photograph: Marion Ettlinger/© Marion Ettlinger/Corbis Outlin It's been a good year for dead writers: they have been an uncommonly busy bunch.
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Going Rock: What the Recent Rock & Roll Frenzy Says About Hip-Hop's Future

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:47:28 GMT

“All things come to an end.
Source: All HipHop

Fall's Raw Sleeper Smash

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:14:52 GMT

Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. Precious—a film called unmarketable due to its unflinching portrayal of inner-city suffering—is now the season’s most buzzed-about release.
Source: The Daily Beast

Quoted in 'Literary agent Alain Bernheim dies'

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:11:30 GMT

said in Original Signal: Movies:

Americans who go to France are sorry not to find civilization, but when Alain Bernheim was there, we did not fret. He was a joy to a whole generation of Americans from Irwin Shaw to Jimmy Jones, Ralph Ellison, Art Buchwald, Peter Matheson and many more.

Quoted in 'HS FOOTBALL: Special night for special teams'

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:11:28 GMT

Ralph Ellison said in Finger Lakes Times:

Geneva had more speed and it showed, especially in the open-field positions ... No bones about it. They were just too quick for us to defend. Speed kills, and it wasn’t just one guy.

Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:00:19 GMT