Ginna’s future, taxing ‘little people,’ City’s writers
John A. Williams
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Hard truths
Part two of a two-part article. When the revered novelist Chester Himes read The Man Who Cried I Am by relative newcomer John A. Williams in 1969, he could not contain himself. In a letter to Williams dated June 13, he wrote: “But for my money, The Man Who Cried I Am is the […]
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Hard truths
Visitors to the Rare Books Library at the University of Rochester this summer may feel like they have entered a parallel world. Filling 19 large display cases are books, articles, manuscripts, journals, letters, and photographs by, or related to, the man writer Ishmael Reed has called the greatest American novelist of the 20th century. So […]
