He was the second Black playwright to win the award and later adapted the play into an Oscar-nominated film, “A Soldier’s Story.”
Tag: Writing and Writers
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Early Cormac McCarthy Interviews Rediscovered
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author has done vanishingly few interviews during the course of his career. In these early ones, some newly uncovered, he is less guarded.
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Hilary Mantel Was the Magician and the Spell
Part of the particular wonder of reading her is the knowledge that no one else has ever written like that before nor will again.
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In ‘The Furrows,’ Namwali Serpell Confronts a Sibling’s Disappearance
Confronting sudden loss in her own life, Namwali Serpell has written “The Furrows,” a disquieting portrait of the human mind, warped by grief.