Randall Luce
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Motherless Children
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2011
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Smokestack Lightning
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2013
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Black & Tan Fantasy
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Reader Impressions: Cane, by Jean Toomer – September 2025
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Randall Luce
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Final Impressions: Remembering, by Wendell Berry – June 2024
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I liked the dark beginning. You have to show the "crack" in something before, as Leonard Cohen put it, you show "how the light gets in."
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Initial Impressions: Black Boy, by Richard Wright – June 2024
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I'm reading my old copy of Black Boy, that only includes the first part and ends with his migration North. Wright had originally meant to publish both
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Randall Luce
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Final Impressions: The Trees, by Percival Everett – May 2024
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I very much liked the ending. Some mumbo jumbo hoo-doo that links the planned killings with the growing army of the lynched taking their revenge. The
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“...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying

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