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Sent: friday, october 27, 2023 at 01:31:36 p.m. edt
free online event: black writers in Paris, the fbi, and a lost 1960s classic
"on 11/8, join Merve Emre, Adam Bradley, and William Maxwell for a discussion of John A. Williams's the man who cried I am
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LOA LIVE
"on 11/8, explore a lost classic of black American fiction
black writers in Paris, the fbi, and a lost 1960s classic: rediscovering the man who cried I am
with Merve Emre, Adam Bradley, and William Maxwell
"the expatriate literary scene in Paris that flourished around Richard Wright and James Baldwin produced brilliant writing, intellectual ferment, and bitter rivalries—all of it, and much else from that turbulent time, thrillingly explored in John A. Williams's explosive 1967 novel, the man who cried I am, a lost classic newly published in paperback by loa
Merve Emre (the personality brokers), Adam Bradley (the anthology of rap; one day it'll all make sense), and William Maxwell (f.b. eyes: how J. Edgar Hoover's ghostreaders framed african American literature) join loa live to explore this panoramic novel of black American life in the era of segregation, civil rights, and paranoiac cold war politics—Bradley enlists it in "the new black canon"—and what it can tell us about the anxious world Williams moved in and our own politically unsettled moment.
wednesday, november 8
6:00–7:00 p.m. et
Click here to rsvp
"Or go to: rebrand.ly/ManWhoCriedIAm
"this online event is free, but you must preregister to attend.
available from library of America
John A. Williams: the man who cried I am
Foreword by Ishmael Reed | Introduction by Merve Emre
paperback • 491 pages
list price: $19.95
web store price: $15.95
with discount: $13.56
"Max Reddick, a novelist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter, has spent his career struggling against the riptide of race in America. now terminally ill, he returns to europe to settle an old debt with his estranged wife and to attend the funeral of his mentor, a character loosely based on Richard Wright. once there, Max uncovers "king Alfred," a secret government plan "to terminate, once and for all, the minority threat to the whole of the American society."
"greeted as a masterpiece when it was published in 1967, the man who cried I am stakes out a range of experience rarely seen in American fiction: from the life of a black gi to the ferment of postcolonial africa to an insider's view of Washington politics in the era of segregation and the civil rights movement.
[N.S.: Standard, black propaganda marketing cant.]
banner image: John A. Williams in 1962 (Carl van Vechten / Library of Congress), Merve Emrea (merveemre.com), Adam Bradley (adamfbradley.com), and William Maxwell (Washington university in St. Louis)
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3 comments:
Initially the book was called,"The Man who said,'I is,' "until a White liberal at the publishing company got hold of it.Shaking his head,he mumbled,"Do I have to do EVERYTHING for these coons?"
--GRA
Also a Neil Diamond song--"I am,I said".
--GRA
jerry pdx
Anything written by blacks complaining about imaginary racism in America is dubbed an instant classic by wokesters. They fawn all over the likes of Tahnesi Coates like he's the second coming of Hemingway. It's sickening.
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