This is another book, or here author, that I learned about from reading the collected letters of Ralph Ellison. He comes into those letters when Ellison is asked to give notes on a book about to be published by an imprint that Toni Morrison is running in the early 1970s and Ellison is so enthusiastic in his reaction to the book that they ask to use it for the book’s introduction. That’s high praise as Ellison is a thorough and skilled reader and many of […]
In the young man’s earliest memories, whenever they visited Great-Momma Sweetie Reed–as Nathaniel and his father Arthur Witherspoon did that morning on June 5, 1944, after Grandfather Witherspoon’s death…
Two Wings to Veil my Face by Leon Forrest