One of literature’s most famous pugilist finally rests.
I never met the man and won’t claim to be the world’s greatest Mailer scholar, but I admired the hell out of his work and career.
Even if he tended to dip deep much into the art of spectacle, it was with a sheer force of personality [...]
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The Arkivest: Chester Himes and Black Futurism
Posted in Arkivest, Books, Profiles, tagged Afrofuturism, Black Futurism, Chester Himes, d. scot miller on November 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Arkivest: Chester Himes
-d. scot miller
When reviewing the prolific life of Chester Himes the first lesson to learn is that as Black artists, we are the world-walkers. The second is as Black writers we are the scribes of the jubilee apocalypse.
With sixteen novels covering thirty-two years of professional writing, [...]
