Afternoons in Albert Murray's Living Room

Pinkser recounts his afternoon visit at Albert Murray's appartment in the heart of Harlem. Murray is a man of letters, writing novels, poems, memoirs, cultural essays and one of the steady voices in the PBS series Jazz. Murray gave Pinkser an advance glimpse on several of his novels. Murray has...

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Published in:The Sewanee review 2008-03, Vol.116 (2), p.311-318
Main Author: Pinsker, Sanford
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Apartments
Ellison, Ralph (1914-1994)
Irony
Jazz
Literary criticism
Literature
Living rooms
Modern literature
Modernist art
Murray, Albert
Musicians
Novels
Poetry
Scooters
The State of Letters
Writers
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Summary:Pinkser recounts his afternoon visit at Albert Murray's appartment in the heart of Harlem. Murray is a man of letters, writing novels, poems, memoirs, cultural essays and one of the steady voices in the PBS series Jazz. Murray gave Pinkser an advance glimpse on several of his novels. Murray has always thought of his life as a fairy tale, a counternarrative to the usual fare of black limitation and white injustice. Pinkser says that Murrays apartment remains an oasis at a time when everything except excellence seems to matter in academia.
ISSN:0037-3052
1934-421X
1934-421X
DOI:10.1353/sew.0.0025