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It has an arc you can hold in your imagination and rotate, thinking about it from different angles. —John Wilson, “Giving Your Testimony” First Things https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600ca1820eec4a7d050e4560/1623282324712-FQSAKFHIQC6QU7P6BWX1/Bateau+cover.jpg Memoir & Essay - Why She Hates Me from Bateau 8.1, 2018 I’ve always kept it secret, how many of her secrets I’ve always known. “She refused to have sex on our wedding night,” he told me, the day we shared a brown bag lunch in his office. He stared into the distance as he spoke, and I could see the grief hover around his silhouette like motes of dust….. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600ca1820eec4a7d050e4560/1623725118837-48KU1M9QN4OJLJC6EPU9/child+with+doll.jpg Memoir & Essay - Baby from Blackberry Winter, Winter 2018 When we collected Elizabeth from daycare that first snowy day, Puddin was waiting at home to greet her. “Baby!” she squealed, tottering across the room with open arms. “I have a baby!” It was love at first sight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600ca1820eec4a7d050e4560/1623282903539-4TKATC377KEGFFFGH0OZ/unsplash-image-29wToZsX0Is.jpg Memoir & Essay - Under Water fromThe Sun Magazine, March 2017 The earnest therapist listened with detachment as I struggled with my misery and self-loathing. Then she asked the obvious question: “What if he doesn’t leave his wife?” I had no answer. In the tub I took a deep breath and sank entirely underwater. 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While these connections provided invaluable access to publishers, patrons, financial opportunities and social power, they also required artists to navigate whites’ racially limited expectations about black identity, expression, and behavior…. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600ca1820eec4a7d050e4560/1623685661563-NXRVFVO06L5LMY1PHYMG/unsplash-image-0lRRUT1Z7Vk.jpg Literary Criticism - Brother Mine: The Correspondence of Jean Toomer and Waldo Frank As Kathleen Pfeiffer demonstrates in this fascinating new collection, letters also forge and record intimacy, serve as conduits for aesthetic discovery, and disclose moments of vulnerability when candor trumps the imperative to snip and shape. — Mark Whalan, author of Race, Manhood and Modernism in America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600ca1820eec4a7d050e4560/1623686101465-98DKD73JI9VXY3BS3VVO/unsplash-image-FeP6wDnaESA.jpg Literary Criticism - Holiday, by Waldo Frank Introduction by Kathleen Pfeiffer Waldo Frank’s 1923 novel Holiday is the compelling account of a Southern lynching presented through a white author’s modernist, experimental style. Written by a white, middle class Jewish northerner educated at Yale posing as a black man while traveling with Jean Toomer. Holiday offers a lively introduction to one of America’s most important forgotten authors. As Kathleen Pfeiffer’s introduction suggests, Frank’s novel also sheds needed light on one of the greatest mysteries of the Harlem Renaissance: the genesis of Jean Toomer’s classic Cane. -– William J. Maxwell, author of New Negro, Old Left and editor of Claude McKay’s Complete Poems https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600ca1820eec4a7d050e4560/1623687178801-OQOTJ88Q9VELKG7YQ9LS/unsplash-image-zZPeoLxLRyM.jpg Literary Criticism - Race Passing and American Individualism Boasts a thesis as bold as it is compelling: race passing is not just a ‘legitimate expression of American individualism’; passing is American individualism. 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