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Philadelphia Fire
In 1985 police bombed a West Philadelphia row house. Eleven people died and a fire started that destroyed sixty other houses. John Edgar Wideman brings these events and their …
Hoop Roots
The author of Brothers and Keepers reflects on the meaning of basketball in his life, describes growing up in his grandparents' home in Pittsburgh, and discusses the cultural …
Stories Wanting Only to Be Heard
Founded at the University of Georgia in 1947 and published there ever since, The Georgia Review has become one of America’s most highly regarded journals of arts and letters. Never …
Brothers and Keepers
Brothers and Keepers is John Edgar Wideman's seminal memoir about two brothers - one an award-winning novelist, the other a fugitive. Wideman recalls the capture of his younger …
The Souls of Black Folk
?Few books make history and fewer still become foundational texts for the movements and struggles of an entire people. The Souls of Black Folk occupies this rare position.? …
Look for Me and I'll Be Gone: Stories
*A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of the Year* From John Edgar Wideman, a modern "master of language" (The New York Times Book Review), comes a stunning story collection that …
Writing to Save a Life
When Emmett Till was murdered aged fourteen for allegedly whistling at a white woman, photographs of his destroyed face became a flashpoint in the civil rights movement. A decade …
American Histories: Stories
"A powerful assemblage of short stories exploring late-in-life angst through personal myth, cultural memory, and riffs on an empire scorched by its own hubris" (O, The Oprah …
Fatheralong
By the author of "Brothers and Keepers". This personal account of the experiences of an American family is a story of an attempt to break free from the shackles of racial ideology. …
American Histories
These stories offer spellbinding reflections on abolitionists and artists, fathers and sons, the bonds of family and the pull of memory. A re-imagined conversation takes place …