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The Saving Grace of an Old School Strategy and Impulse

“What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.” Author Salman Rushdie as formerly featured at Red Room. (photo graphic courtesy of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine) A lot of hearts passionate about reading, writing, publishing, and literary culture in general…

July 30, 2014
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The Year of James Baldwin Now in Full Classic Literary Swing (part 1)

Author James Baldwin in St. Paul de Vence, France, 1976. (photograph by Dmitri Kasterine) “It has always been much easier (because it has always seemed much safer) to give a name to the evil without than to locate the terror within. And yet, the terror within is far…

July 22, 2014
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Text and Meaning in Michael Jackson’s Xscape (part 5 of 5)

“In more ways than one, his status as a ‘superstar’ served largely as a vehicle that allowed him to render as much service to humanity on as many levels as he could.”––Article Excerpt (Aberjhani) The lucky number seventh track on Xscape, “Blue Gangsta,” is the perfect musical metaphor for the…

June 25, 2014
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Text and Meaning in Michael Jackson’s Xscape (part 1)

“He talked always about giving love. It was never about how much love he got back.”––Antonio “L.A.” Reid discussing Michael Jackson, Xscape Documentary DVD Any announcements of “new music” from Michael Jackson must necessarily and rightly be met with a healthy amount of skepticism. Important questions have to be…

June 18, 2014