I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are hurt about it . . . No, I do not weep at the world - I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. - Zora Neale Hurston, "How It Feels To Be Colored Me," from World Tomorrow, 1928
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The Mirror and the Light
The Mirror and the Light, the last volume in Hillary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell trilogy, arrived at 8:14 last night. I watched for it all day as I was finishing Bring Down the Bodies, the second book in the trilogy. having just finished my third reading of the first, Wolf Hall. These re-readings were in anticipation of this book, for which my reading friends and I have been waiting eagerly since 2012.
This is what I think they call a major landmark in the publishing world. Early reviews report it's a splendid novel. Now we wait anxiously to hear whether Mantel wins the prize for this third book. She won it for the first one. And the second.
Will in the World
This is a splendid biography/literary criticism of Shakespeare. I began seriously re-reading his work recently and Stephen Greenblatt's book enhances it all.