Look What I Found
An entirely random book recommendation: If you enjoy cultural criticism, consider taking American Studies. I found a copy without knowing what I was looking for while nosing around at my favorite pre-owned bookstore last week. The collection is five years old and the essays are older than that. I didn’t dig — or follow — every line of every one. But I marked a handful as candidates for re-reading and noted more than a couple passages. From a piece on Richard Wright: “The evil of modern society isn’t that it creates racism, but that it creates conditions in which people who don’t suffer from injustice seem incapable of caring very much about people who do.” Does me good to spend time with such an authentic and well-reasoned writer. Even if his intellectual range is more than a little humbling.
This post was added on Friday, July 11, 2008 by Tom Swift at 14:02 and is filed under Reading Material.
"Any idiot can face a crisis. It's day to day living that wears you out." -Anton Chekhov
