![]() Their son grew up to be a man with his own life-sized statue in a building that bears his family's name on a campus once kept afloat by the selling of 272 enslaved people. His father could not read or write, so the only way he could identify different cements at the factory where he worked was to taste them. Thompson's mother was a teacher who couldn't teach because she was Black. And thawing his historically glacial stare, Thompson brings us into his negotiation with a DC drug kingpin in his players' orbit in the 1980s, as well as behind the scenes on the Nike board today. How did he inspire the phrase "Hoya Paranoia"? You'll see. ![]() ![]() We experience riding shotgun with Celtics icon Red Auerbach, and coaching NBA Hall of Famers like Patrick Ewing and Allen Iverson. Chockful of stories and moving beyond mere stats (and what stats! three Final Fours, four times national coach of the year, seven Big East championships, 97 percent graduation rate), Thompson's book drives us through his childhood under Jim Crow segregation to our current moment of racial reckoning. John Thompson was never just a basketball coach and I Came As a Shadow is categorically not just a basketball autobiography.Īfter three decades at the center of race and sports in America, the first Black head coach to win an NCAA championship is ready to make the private public. ![]() The long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University's legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court throws America's unresolved struggle with racial justice into sharp relief ![]()
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Intriguing factual scaffolding, but where there are also enough unknowable voids I love to find stories from the past where we can know something, but notĮverything where there is enough of a historical record to have left us with an What is it that draws you to a particular subject, or a particular ![]() Now, you've created an epic story about art and religious Your previous two novels are set during Europe's plague years and theĪmerican Civil War. Two interviews with Geraldine Brooks about Year of Wonders and People of the Book.Ī Conversation with Geraldine Brooks about People of In two separate interviews, Geraldine Brooks discusses Year of Wonders and People of the Book, and the difficulties of writing stories that blend fiction with historical fact, given her journalistic - just-the-facts background. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The volume was published in 1943 by Random House under the auspices of its co-founder Bennett Cerf, while Cheever was serving in a US infantry unit. O’Hara in John Cheever: A Study of the Short Fiction (1989). They are essentially naturalistic reports on biological specimens responding to various stimuli, rather than stories about people by someone with a human interest in their human spirits…”- Literary critic James E. “With few exceptions, the stories Cheever published between 1935 and early 1942 are coldly detached in tone, as the teller were curious about the characters and their problems- but nothing more. These depression-era works appeared in a number of literary journals, including Collier's, The New Republic, The Yale Review, Story and The New Yorker. The thirty short stories selected for publication in The Way Some People Live are a sampling of the more than 40 short stories Cheever wrote between 19. "The Man Who Was Very Homesick for New York" "These Tragic Years" (The New Yorker, September 27, 1941) "When Grandmother Goes" (The New Yorker, December 14, 1940) ![]() " Publick House" (The New Yorker, August 16, 1941) "Of Love: A Testimony" (Story, December 1935) "Forever Hold Your Piece" (The New Yorker, November 23, 1940) "Summer Theatre" (The New Yorker, August 24, 1940) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jane and Vincent are helped by a kind local they meet en route, but Vincent is determined to become self-reliant and get their money back and hatches a plan to do so. It is their good fortune that they are not enslaved, but they lose everything to the pirates and arrive in Murano destitute. Jane and Vincent plan to separate from the party and travel to Murano to study with glassblowers there, but their ship is set upon by Barbary corsairs. 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