HE’S JUST IN A SMALL DIVINITY SCHOOL in the early pages I’m in now. It’s around 1960; he’s maybe 20. It’s inspiring to read about his focus and determination. Gandhi is an influence. Injustice is what drives him though. 

COFFEE SHOP WINDOW right now. Cold outside.

 

 

He didn’t know what a sonnet was. Now he’s won a major poetry prize.


Ajibola Tolase has been awarded the Cave Canem Prize, putting him in a storied literary lineage

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/03/20/cave-canem-2024-ajibola-tolase/

 

An Obama campaign staffer stars in the shimmering autobiographical novel ‘Great Expectations’ 

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-03-18/great-expectations-vinson-cunningham-obama-campaign

Jonathan Kozol Fought School Inequality for Decades. Here’s One Final Plea.

With his latest, and last, book, the 87-year-old writer refuses false optimism.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/us/jonathan-kozol-school-inequality.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

Keith Haring brought art to the streets. Did he sell out in the process?


Brad Gooch’s new biography, ‘Radiant,’ captures the life of the iconoclastic artist who helped to define 1980s New York before dying at 31

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/03/12/radiant-keith-haring-biography-brad-gooch-review/

Calvin Trillin on the golden age of American reporting

A collection of work by a giant of New York journalism is both a joy and a lesson, particularly on objectivity and its limits

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/10/the-lede-review-calvin-trillin-new-yorker-times