Using words to build bridges: Whately writers join national series of live-streamed presentations
George Howe Colt at his home in Whately. Gazette file photo
Whately nonfiction writers George Howe Colt and Anne Fadiman are participating in next week’s “Write America” discussion. via Wikipedia
Published: 3/16/2021 2:16:59 PM
Can books play a role in helping to bridge the deep cultural and political divisions in our nation? There’s no easy answer to the question, but a national series of livestreamed conversations between writers is attempting to find out.
“Write America,” which began in February, features a weekly discussion between two or three writers and sometimes artists from other fields. The series has been created by veteran journalist, novelist and playwright Roger Rosenblatt, who teaches English and writing at Stony Brook University in New York.
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Toni Morrison‘s Nobel prize-winning book
Song of Solomon will soon be turned into a limited series by
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom filmmaker
George C. Wolfe.
Published in 1977, the book tells the story of Macon ‘Milkman’ Dead III, a Black man living in Michigan as the son of the richest Black family in town. But that’s hardly the most interesting detail about this character and his family.
Here’s the official description of
Song of Solomon from inside the book jacket (via Amazon):
Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon
, a novel of large beauty and power, creates a magical world out of four generations of black life in America, a world we enter on the day of the birth of Macon Dead, Jr. (known as Milkman), son of the richest black family in a mid-western town; the day on which the lonely insurance man, Robert Smith, poised in blue silk wings, attempts to fly from a steeple of the hospital, a black Icarus looking homeward…