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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Tag: American Studies
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)”