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Clifford Thompson - Jazz June, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Jazz June

A Self-Portrait in Essays

Av Clifford Thompson

Del i serien Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction

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Jazz June: A Self-Portrait in Essays traces a life, not by recounting its major events but by going deep into its representative moments: the moments of wonder, hope, fear, uncertainty, humor, love, and epiphany that make up human experience. Along the way, as a son of a widowed mother, as a young man in the big city, as a husband and father, as an aging empty nester, and as an artist, the author discovers, with each new role, more of who he is. A lover of the arts, he offers creative reflections on literature, music, and film; a Black American whose life is informed but not defined by race, he embraces Black culture while remaining defiantly himself.
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CLIFFORD THOMPSON is a recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award for nonfiction whose essays and reviews have appeared in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Best American Essays, Times Literary Supplement, the 2024 Pushcart Prize Anthology, and more. His books include What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues, which Time magazine called one of the “most anticipated” books of the season, and the graphic novel Big Man and the Little Men, which he wrote and illustrated. Thompson teaches creative nonfiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College and the Vermont College of Fine Arts. A painter, he is a member of Blue Mountain Gallery in New York City.

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Thompson’s strong, casual prose line immediately makes him an interesting protagonist; he writes movingly about fatherhood or a bit mordantly about no longer being young. Although the contents are evenly divided between the two great cities of Thompson’s life, the sections about New York are the more evocative by far, from the inevitable commentary about the subway system to the strangely persistent defensiveness over whether or not he really belongs. A flavor of hard-won life wisdom gradually emerges.A companionable, often insightful collection.

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