Gertrude Stein Has Arrived
GERTRUDE STEIN HAS ARRIVED In 1933-34, just after Gertrude Stein published The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas to great acclaim, the writer and her faithful companion went on a celebratory tour of the United States. Although Gertrude was born in Oakland and Alice in San Francisco, neither had been in America for roughly three decades. […]
Search for the New Land
Search for the New Land shook me awake and into the world of Julius Lester’s Black experience. Sometimes my reading habits set me off like a pinball machine. I’ve been reading about American literature and its uncomfortable (for me, a white reader) connection to racism. It’s a topic that’s been seriously on my mind since […]
Blackout and All Clear
Connie Willis is one of the leading figures in science-fiction today. Her recent time-travel novels Blackout and All Clear (2010) won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, the most prestigious honors in the field. And her Christmas stories published in Asimov’s Science Fiction have achieved the status of timeless classics. This year, Willis was named […]