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Thursday, October 15, 2026

The James Baldwin Revival and the Richard Wright Surge

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Publishing developments can affect young readers at pivotal moments and have lasting effects on their intellectual and professional lives. ...
Wednesday, October 14, 2026

William Maxwell Pulls a Kinnamon with His "James Baldwinism Now" Article/Survey

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I've long viewed the late Kenneth Kinnamon as our greatest individual bibliographer. After all, the two Richard Wright bibliographies he...

Where the Talking Happens in Hurston's “Spunk”

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By Jade Harrison In “Spunk,” nearly 80 percent of the dialogue takes place in Joe Clarke’s store, and Elijah Moseley speaks 44 percent of al...

Whose Story Gets Told at Joe Clarke’s Store in “Spunk”

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By Jade Harrison In fiction, the places where people gather often decide whose version of events the reader gets to hear. In Zora Neale ...
Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Rhonda Ferguson’s Washington, Then and Now

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 By Kenton Rambsy  In Edward P. Jones’s “The Night Rhonda Ferguson Was Killed,” every stop on the girls’ route around 1960 sat in a majority...

Black DC, Then and Now, in Edward P. Jones’s “Rhonda Ferguson”

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By Kenton Rambsy Fictional stories often preserve glimpses of real places and communities that have changed dramatically over time. In E...

Toni Morrison and the Singular Spotlight: What ProQuest Data Reveals

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This slide is from a larger visualization that Kenton and I produced for a presentation on our book One Black Writer at a Time .  The data ...
Friday, October 9, 2026

The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry by Emily Rutter

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About the Book   Publication : 2018  Publisher: University of Alabama Press A critical analysis of the poetic representations and legacies...