In “Women of Brewster Place” a character charges into a scene of despair and refuses to let death triumph.
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Crucial Support in the Face of Death
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Shadow Projections on the President
A couple of months ago I wondered on this blog whether some of the vitriolic attacks on Obama (as distinguished from reasoned disagreement) were driven by racism, and now I see that others are wondering the same, including Maureen Dowd and Jimmy Carter. But a reader of Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish has a more […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Absolon Absolon, All the King's Men, Andrew Sullivan, Barack Obama, Beloved, Daily Dish, Flannery O'Connor, Human Stain, Joseph Conrad, Linden Hills, Philip Roth, right-wing anger, Robert Penn Warren, Secret Sharer, Sophie's Choice, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, William Styron, Wise Blood | Comments closed
