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Busted in New York and Other Essays
A collection of essays that blend the personal and the social, from the celebrated literary critic and novelist In these twenty-five essays, Darryl Pinckney has given us a view of our recent racial history that blends the social and the personal and wonders how we arrived at our current moment. Pin... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2019 -
Blackballed: With a New Essay
An incisive reflection on black electoral politics, disenfranchisement, and the lasting legacy of the civil rights movement—now with a brand-new essay on the Covid-19 pandemic, reparations, and the 2020 George Floyd protests.Blackballed is Darryl Pinckney&’s meditation on a century and a half of par... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2014 -
Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature
With this appreciation of three very different black writers, novelist Darryl Pinckney reminds us that marginal or neglected literary figures have a lot to tell us about the history of a people who are always "outsiders. " Born in Jamaica in 1883, J. A. Rogers was an early member of the Harlem Ren... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2002 -
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
Critic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein and the introduction they offered him to the New York literary world.At the start of the 1970s, Darryl Pinckney arrived in New York City and at Columbia University and enrolled in ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2022 -
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-seventh Street, Manhattan
Critic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein and the introduction they offered him to the New York literary world.Darryl Pinckney arrived at Columbia University in New York City in the early 1970s and had the opportunity to e... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2022 -
Blackballed
Blackballed is Darryl Pinckney's meditation on a century and a half of participation by blacks in US electoral politics. In this combination of memoir, historical narrative, and contemporary political and social analysis, he investigates the struggle for black voting rights from Reconstruction throu... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2014 -
The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades.Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form, critici... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2017 -
The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick
Elizabeth Hardwick was one of America’s great postwar women of letters, celebrated as a novelist and as an essayist. Until now, however, her slim but remarkable achievement as a writer of short stories has remained largely hidden, with her work tucked away in the pages of the periodicals—such as Par... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2010 -
Blood on the Forge
This brutally gripping novel about the African-American Great Migration follows the three Moss brothers, who flee the rural South to work in industries up North. Delivered by day into the searing inferno of the steel mills, by night they encounter a world of surreal devastation, crowded with dogfig... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2005 -
Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly
Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2008