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Maya Angelou on living and then dying (opens the original)
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Among Maya Angelou’s many distinctions was being San Francisco’s first black and first female street car conductor, and as she wrote “worked as a shake dancer in night clubs, fry cook in hamburger joints, dinner cook in a Creole restaurant and once had a job in a mechanic’s shop, taking the paint off cars with my hands,” in a career that included being a prostitute and a madam then rising rapidly to become perhaps the most accomplished writer in America. Among other things, she performed on Broa
A sixties radical on hippie self-delusions (opens the original)
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Emmet Grogan was a leader of the Diggers, an “anarchist guerrilla street theater group” in the Haight-Asbury section of San Francisco in the mid-seventies, evolving, according to The Digger Archives, from “the bohemian/underground art/theater scene, and the New Left/civil rights/peace movement.” The Archives claim they invented the slogans “Do your own thing" and "Today is the first day of the rest of your life." They also ran free bakeries and kitchens. Grogan, to whom Bob Dylan dedicated his a
Flannery O’Connor and Walker Percy on the road to the gas chamber (opens the original)
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Flannery O’Connor was one of the major American writers of the mid-twentieth century, whose novels and short stories are still read, taught, and written about. The novels were Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away and the short stories published in major magazines and then in A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge. Her letters appeared in The Habit of Being. A major writer of the last third of the century, Walker Percy’s first novel, The Movie Goer, won the National
Dwight Macdonald on a writer who understood goodness (opens the original)
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Among intellectual and political gadfly Dwight Macdonald’s friends was James Agee. A journalist for Fortune through the thirties and then a movie reviewer for Time and The Nation, in 1941 Agree wrote a study of very poor tenant farmers, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, with the photographer Walker Evans, which sold few copies at the time but since its republication in 1960 has become a classic. His autobiographical novel A Death in the Family won the Pulitzer Prize in 1958, the year after he died i
Michael Walzer on criticizing the oppressed (opens the original)
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Considered a “communitarian” political philosopher, along with Alasdair MacIntyre and Michael Sandel, Michael Walzer’s writings had an important “part in the revival of practical, issue-focused ethics and in the development of a pluralist approach to political and moral life,” according to his biography from the Institute for Advanced Study. He taught at Princeton and Harvard and is a fellow of the IAS. His many books include Just and Unjust Wars, The Jewish Political Tradition, and On Toleratio
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