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Pub. Date
[2012], c1982
Language
English
Description
I would find myself very angry about something, or very unhappy about something and not really know why, and the writing was a way to put some perspective on those very powerful emotions..." says John Edgar Wideman. Wideman is the first writer ever to win the International PEN/Faulkner Award twice-once for Sent for You Yesterday and six years later for Philadelphia Fire. In this program, Wideman explains the connections he makes between the Pittsburgh...
2) John Wideman
Pub. Date
[2012], cuuuu
Language
English
Description
This program focuses on the author of Sent for You Yesterday, Damballah, and Hiding Place, the man who, perhaps better than any other, epitomizes the painful split between middle-class blacks and the black urban underclass. In discussing his Brothers and Keepers-his memoir of a brother now serving a life term in prison-Wideman explores the factors that condemn one man to imprisonment, while another is able to transform a Pittsburgh ghetto, where both...
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