Street lit author Donald Goines — a middle-class kid from a good family who became a drug addict and career criminal — knew what he was writing about. His tragically short career shows that when it comes to
“writing what you know,” timing is everything. Continue reading
The events of James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses, take place on June 16, 1904. They’re commemorated every year in a celebration called Bloomsday. Continue reading
In the 1930s, Hollywood zeroed in on someone to blame for the country’s collective delinquency: bad mothers. Continue reading
The bright circle of lamplight fell across shining plates heaped with Ma’s good bread, and crackling salt pork, and potatoes from the little garden browned in butter from Ellen, the Jersey cow.
“Here’s something to round out the supper, girls,” said Pa. Continue reading
The erotic text is given the opportunity to explain itself. Continue reading
Food crops from around the globe are protected from catastrophe in the world’s largest secure seed storage facility, the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard. But something recently went wrong. Continue reading
No, the erstwhile drug dealer turned middle-aged rapper didn’t kill a novelist. He became one. Continue reading
