Two recent historical novels, about Irish Boston and Bleeding Kansas, capture today’s tumult and they look backward.
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Tag Archives: integration
Historical Fiction Is about the Present
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Bleeding Kansas, Civil War, Dennis Lehane, forced busing, racism, Small Mercies, Surrection, Will Martin Comments closed
My Life in Lit – Segregation
In which I recount growing up in segregated Tennessee and recount the books that helped me cope.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Harper Lee, Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, May Justus, New Boy in School, racism, segregation, To Kill a Mockingbird Comments closed
My “Last Lecture”
I share here my “last lecture” from my retirement ceremony. (But rest assured: I will not be retiring from this blog.)
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Aristotle, Bertolt Brecht, Chinua Achebe, Divine Comedy, Goethe, Heart of Darkness, Horace, Huckleberry Finn, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain, Martha Nussbaum Wayne Booth, Matthew Arnold, Percy Shelley, Plato, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Samuel Johnson, segregation, Sir Philip Sydney, Terry Eagleton, W. E. B. Du Bois, Wayne Booth Comments closed