American Writers (One Hundred Pages at a Time)

A one-off episode on James Weldon Johnson's novel "Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man", a story on passing, cigar rolling, and black Manhattan.

We have made it to the end of "The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K. Dick. Let you know what you think of my finale episode on this Hugo Award-winning novel.

Part five of my review of "The Man in the High Castle".

Oh..the feels. Time to say goodbye to W. E. B. Du Bois. Maybe we will meet again if The Library of America publishes another volume of your works. Articles from the "Crisis"--lots of them.

Part four of my comments and review of Philip K. Dick's Hugo Award-winning novel "The Man in the High Castle".  

The essays I look at in this episode are from the end of Du Bois' career, including a chapter from his masterpiece "Black Reconstruction in America."

More of "The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K. Dick.

Part 2 of my comments on Philip K. Dick's "The Man in the Hight Castle".

Season 2 of the Philip K. Dick Book Club kicks off with part 1 of my comments on Dick's Hugo Award winning "The Man in the High Castle".

In this episode, I take a look at Du Bois' essays from the post World War I period to the 1920s. Topics include the betrayed promise of natonal self-determination after the war and the Marcus Garvey movement.