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Episode 623: Richard Wright: Lawd Today!

American Writers (One Hundred Pages at a Time)

English - January 24, 2024 07:13 - 29 minutes - 30.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
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Today I start a new series looking at the major works of Richard Wright. We begin with LAWD TODAY!, which was published in the 1960s, but was actually the first book written. It is an amazing modernist text looking at the working class black life in Chicago during the Great Depression. It is also one of the bleakest books we have looked at in a while.