On Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
“All autobiographies are, in part, lies,” says Touré, who sees Manning Marable’s “more complete and unvarnished” new Malcolm X biography as a worthy supplement to The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
“All autobiographies are, in part, lies,” says Touré, who sees Manning Marable’s “more complete and unvarnished” new Malcolm X biography as a worthy supplement to The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
“There is a particular sort of toughness of mind to be found in American women writers — Flannery O’Connor and Dawn Powell had it — and its finest living avatar is now clearly Paula Fox.” — Gerald Howard, 2001
“I used to want to be like June Miller when I was a teenager, because she sounded so beautiful and so seductive and so dangerous… I wanted to be like someone who never wrote anything.”
Mark Armstrong of Longreads posts his top essays and articles over at Mother Jones each week, and this time around I’m his “Featured Longreader.” Here’s some of what I’ve been reading recently: A Disney trip with kids meets lots of furtive weed smoking in John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Rough Guide to Disney World. “It was a double hallucination,” he says. “You . . .