Here is one of my very rare creative pieces, based on the style of Norman Mailer. My intention here is to make you feel what the protagonist is feeling.
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John Howard Griffin’s Black Like Me (1961)
On October 2, 1959, John Howard Griffin made his first diary entry, the first of many that would then go on to form the content of his book Black Like Me. These recounted Griffin’s experience as a white American novelist, going undercover in the Deep South to “authentically” report what it was like to “experience discrimination based on skin color, something over which one has no control”. Continue reading “John Howard Griffin’s Black Like Me (1961)”
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Agee and Walker, 1941)
This week I have chosen to write a creative piece in the style of James Agee and Walker Evans: Continue reading “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Agee and Walker, 1941)”
Richard Wright’s 12 Million Black Voices
Wright once asked: “Could words be weapons?” 12 Million Black Voices shows that they definitely could. It is, in fact, a work about the unsung stories and living conditions more hardly felt by the African American communities that suffered extensively during the Great Depression. Continue reading “Richard Wright’s 12 Million Black Voices”
Miranda Hart's "Peggy&Me"
Put the kettle on, draw the curtains and make yourself comfortable: the all-charismatic comedian Miranda Hart is back with her new book Peggy & Me. Now, I know what you are probably thinking, “Oh, a book about a woman and her dog, sounds SO exciting… NOT”, and to this I must retaliate with the well-known cliché idiom “never judge a book by its cover”. No really, please don’t. Continue reading “Miranda Hart's "Peggy&Me"”
Nanook of the North: Fiction or non?
There is a thin line between fiction and reality. William Rothman points out that “fiction films do bring real life to the screen”, as the subjects that are being filmed are real. However, it is also true that documentaries are fictional, because once they appear on screen, the subjects being filmed become virtual ones. So how do we distinguish between the two? Continue reading “Nanook of the North: Fiction or non?”
Does History repeat itself, or it is that it never changed in the first place?
“They are the stones by the builder rejected. There is no place for them in the social fabric, while all the forces of society drive them downward till they perish. At the bottom of the Abyss they are feeble, besotted, and imbecile. If they reproduce, the life is so cheap that perforce it perishes of itself.” -Jack London. Continue reading “Does History repeat itself, or it is that it never changed in the first place?”
Who really did "murder the vets"?
Wet, deserted, silent.
The stench of death emanating from the heaps of scattered mangled bodies.
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