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Ian Frazier’s late-career collection showcases his numerous skills as an essayist, but also the pitfalls of revisiting outdated cultural obs
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Ian Frazier’s late-career collection showcases his numerous skills as an essayist, but also the pitfalls of revisiting outdated cultural obs
Ian Frazier’s late-career collection showcases his numerous skills as an essayist, but also the pitfalls of revisiting outdated cultural obs
The Snakes That Ate Florida: Reporting, Essays, and Criticism
By Ian Frazier.
Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough
By Ian Frazier.
Design by Thomas Colligan.
I hugged her at the door, and it was the whole building hugging her. I walked to the garden seeing glory everywhere.... I took a big Betsy McCall rose to my face and breathed it in as if it were an oxygen mask.
"take the f" ian frazier for the new yorker, 1995
The hypocrisy gets worse, [Du Bois] says, when America, 'a great white nation with a magnificent Plan of Salvation,' tosses out Christian behavior in dealing with issues of race: 'The attacks that white people themselves have made upon their own moral structure are worse for civilization than anything that any body of Negroes could ever do.'
Ian Frazier quoting W.E.B. Du Bois speaking during a debate in Chicago in 1929 (From the article When W. E. B. Du Bois Made a Laughingstock of a White Supremacist, New Yorker Magazine 8/19/2019)
New Post has been published on http://www.booksbycarolinemiller.com/musings/writing-publishing-agents/writing-a-memoir-or-daring-to-think-about-it2/
Writing A Memoir Or Daring To Think About It
I have in my mind an idea for a short memoir about my three-and-a- half years abroad. During that time, I taught everything from biology to the American Revolution in English schools, one in the Midlands and the other in Essex. Holidays brimmed with foreign adventure until I came to rest...