#johnedgarwideman

[unfoldingmoments]

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up. But the writing is a way of not allowing those things to destroy you.

John Edgar Wideman

[nathaliecasetelis]

“Isolated by these walls, busy maintaining them, we neglect self-examination. Blame others for causing our immurement by fear. Locked down by the tragic error of imprisoning others to free ourselves, we waste the possibiliies of self-liberation each of us contains.” Brothers and Keepers, John Edgar Wideman

[winehead32]

Two collections of short stories and a memoir. #johnedgarwideman #jamelbrinkley #gregorypardlo #shortstories #shortstory #memior #memoirs

[fleetsparrow]

Bookmail!!! The second book today was a copy of Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File, by John Edgar Wideman. Big thanks to @scribnerbooks for their giveaway! It's going to be a hard read, but a very important one. I look forward to it. #bookstagram #bookmail #book #theLouisTillFile #johnedgarwideman #emmetttill #louistill #racism #history

[richiestunningham]

One of #pgh finest authors #johnedgarwideman #damballah #blackart #blackexcellence #ironcity #yinzer #readingisfundamental (at Ace Hotel Pittsburgh)

[jmberryfictionwriter]

#readsoullit #photochallenge 4. Made me cry - Sent for You Yesterday #JohnEdgarWideman

Wideman creates characters that you’ll want to love and love hard. Then once you do fall for them, the world he’s created will take them away, just like real life tends to do. ___________________________________________

#booknerdigans #blackamericanauthors #blackhistorymonth2017 #blackbooks #blerdlife 📚

[beautifulfeeted-blog]

Night changes things. You can't see exactly how, but you can feel it in your bones. Spaces open up which haven't been there before. You know that night's different. And you guess at why and you wonder why, but you understand that you'll never understand because night is about things changing. The other fact about night is that it doesn't last. It's temporary, and like all good things, it must come to an end.

-John Edgar Wideman