Leonard Pitts
Or a race against time to foil a terrorist plot.
Or a zombie apocalypse. A zombie apocalypse would definitely hit the spot.
As some of you will recall, I gave up those and other literary pleasures a year ago, bidding farewell to the likes of Robert B. Parker, Tom Clancy and Stephen King. Before we knew all the awful things that 2020 would be The Year of Pandemic, The Year of Racial Reckoning, The Year of Endless Election I stood at this podium and put my own stamp on it: 2020 would be The Year of Reading Women, I said. This, after realizing that I, avowed feminist and voracious reader that I am, seldom read female authors that for years, I had been unconsciously but consistently ignoring them.
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Leonard Pitts: After a year of reading books only by women, I’m a richer man for it
My bias had deprived me of whole vistas of discovery. And if you choose to see in that a broader lesson, I won’t argue.
By Leonard Pitts Jr.The Miami Herald
Or a race against time to foil a terrorist plot.
Or a zombie apocalypse. A zombie apocalypse would definitely hit the spot.
As some of you will recall, I gave up those and other literary pleasures a year ago, bidding farewell to the likes of Robert B. Parker, Tom Clancy and Stephen King. Before we knew all the awful things that 2020 would be – The Year of Pandemic, The Year of Racial Reckoning, The Year of Endless Election – I stood at this podium and put my own stamp on it: 2020 would be The Year of Reading Women, I said. This, after realizing that I, avowed feminist and voracious reader that I am, seldom read female authors – that for years, I had been unconsciously but consistently ignoring them.
i only have my time is expired. bla : their lives were changed and by listening, and hearing louis armstrong. and that s a running theme the book is just marvelous in expressing what louis was able to do in a radical way. and hoe how his career was just sufused with this love that was palpable, that comes jumping out at you when you hear his music. every jazz fan comes into jazz via song or an artist or an album. it s all different. but sooner or later, you do get back to louis. i came through miles, don cherry, lester bowie, but eventually, distribution centers get to louis. i was staying in france for a little while and i heard a show, for an hour they played the same song, different versions, in chronological order, and you really got to see what jazz musicians did with a song. they always went in chronological order and the first song you heard was always the stiffest, original cast recording from broadway play that was probably in the french archives, nowhere else.