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 April 18, 2010 | RingShout: A Place for Black Literature | Brooklyn
Special guests James Hannaham, author of God Says No, and Victor LaValle, author of Big Machine, join Martha Southgate, Eisa Ulen, and others for a discussion of comedy in black literature.
RingShout: A Place for Black Literature was founded by Bridgett Davis, Chris Jackson, Martha Southgate, Alison Meyers, and Eisa Ulen.
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• Entire discussion (2:05:16)
• James Hannaham talks about black literature’s place in culture high and low (17:52)
• Victor LaValle and Hannaham exchange ideas about influences, pressures of the market, and reading in front of an audience (16:13)
• LaValle’s editor Chris Jackson joins in the discussion of the editing process, publishing, and “chocolate chubbies” (22:35)
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