Author Archives: Richard Guzman
U.S. Returns Balangiga Bells
The VIDEO below from The World Tonight * reports on the return from the U.S. to the Philippines of the Balangiga Bells, one of the most infamous symbols of the Philippine-American War, which raged brutally from 1899 to 1902. After … Continue reading
Black Writers Picture Themselves – Part 2
Burt Britton’s 1976 book Self-Portrait: Book People Picture Themselves contains nearly 750 self-portraits of writers and actors, from Edward Abbey (A) to Paul Zweig (Z). It all started when Britton, then tending bar in New York, tried to get a … Continue reading
James Alan McPherson: Junior and John Doe
James Alan McPherson wrote “Junior and John Doe” for Gerald Early’s 1993 essay collection Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation. It’s a great essay in a great and important collection. Twenty writers—on a spectrum … Continue reading