Read Like A Writer

There are two ways to learn how to write fiction: by reading it and by writing it. Yes, you can learn lots about writing stories in workshops, in writing classes and writing groups, at writers' conferences. You can learn technique and process by reading the dozens of books like this one on fiction writing and by reading articles in writers' magazines. But the best teachers of fiction are the great works of fiction themselves. You can learn more about the structure of a short story by reading Anton Chekhov's 'Heartache' than you can in a semester of Creative Writing 101. If you read like a writer, that is, which means you have to read everything twice, at least. When you read a story or novel the first time, just let it happen. Enjoy the journey. When you've finished, you know where the story took you, and now you can go back and reread, and this time notice how the writer reached that destination. Notice the choices he made at each chapter, each sentence, each word. (Every word is a choice.) You see now how the transitions work, how a character gets across a room. All this time you're learning. You loved the central character in the story, and now you can see how the writer presented the character and rendered her worthy of your love and attention. The first reading is creative—you collaborate with the writer in making the story. The second reading is critical.


John Dufresne, from his book, The Lie That Tells A Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction

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Friday, May 27, 2022

The New Negro: An Interpretation, Edited by Alain L Locke

The New Negro: An Interpretation, Edited by Alain L Locke

  The New Negro: An Interpretation

 

Edited by Alain L Locke

 


"The New Negro: An Interpretation" . Ed. Alain Locke. Portraits by Winold Reiss; illus. Aaron Douglas. New York: A. and C. Boni, 1925. xviii+446 pp.

CONTENTS


Part I: The Negro Renaissance
• Alain Locke / The New Negro (3)
• Albert C. Barnes / Negro Art and America (19)
• William Stanley Braithwaite / The Negro in American Literature (29)
• Alain Locke / Negro Youth Speaks (27)
Fiction:
• Rudolph Fisher / The City of Refuge (57)
• Rudolph Fisher / Vesitges (75)
• John Matheus / Fog (85)
• Jean Toomer / Carma (from "Cane") (96)
• Jean Toomer / Fern (from "Cane") (99)
• Zora Neale Hurston / Spunk (105)
• Burce Nugent / Sahdji (113)
• Eric Walrond / The Palm Porch (115)
Poetry:
• Countee Cullen / To a Brown Girl (129)
• Countee Cullen / To a Brown Boy (129)
• Countee Cullen / Tableau (130)
• Countee Cullen / Harlem Wine (130)
• Countee Cullen / She of the Dancing Feet Sings (131)
• Countee Cullen / A Brown Girl Dead (131)
• Countee Cullen / Fruit of the Flower (132)
• Claude McKay / In Memory of Colonel Charles Young (133)
• Claude McKay / Baptism (133)
• Claude McKay / White Houses (134)
• Claude McKay / Like a Strong Tree (134)
• Claude McKay / Russian Cathedral (135)
• Claude McKay / The Tropics in New York (135)
• Jean Toomer / Georgia Dusk (136)
• Jean Toomer / Song of the Son (137)
• James Weldon Johnson / The Creation: A Negro Sermon (138)
• Langston Hughes / The Negro Speaks of Rivers (141)
• Langston Hughes / An Earth Song (142)
• Langston Hughes / Poem [Being walkers with the dawn and morning] (142)
• Langston Hughes / Youth (142)
• Langston Hughes / Song [Lovely, dark, and lonely one] (143)
• Langston Hughes / Dream Variation (143)
• Langston Hughes / Minstrel Man (144)
• Langston Hughes / Our Land (144)
• Langston Hughes / I Too (145)
• Arna Bontemps / The Day-Breakers (145)
• Georgia Douglas Johnson / To Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Upon Hearing His "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child" (146)
• Georgia Douglas Johnson / The Ordeal (146)
• Georgia Douglas Johnson / Escape (147)
• Georgia Douglas Johnson / The Riddle (147)
• Anne Spencer / Lady, Lady (148)
• Angelina Grimke / The Black Finger (148)
• Lewis Alexander / Enchantment (149)
Drama:
• Montgomery Gregory / The Drama of Negro Life (153)
• Jessie Fauset / The Gift of Laughter (161)
• Willis Richardson / Compromise (A Folk Play) (168)
Music:
• Alain Locke / The Negro Spirituals (199)
• Claude McKay / Negro Dancers (214)
• J. A. Rogers / Jazz at Home (216)
• Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Song (225)
• Langston Hughes / Jazzonia (226)
• Langston Hughes / Nude Young Dancer (227)
The Negro Digs Up His Past:
• Arthur A. Schomburg / The Negro Digs Up His Past (231)
• Arthur Huff Fauset / American Negro Folk Literature (238)
• Cugo Lewis / T'appin (Terrapin) (245)
• [Traditional] / B'rer Rabbit Fools Buzzard (248)
• Countee Cullen / Heritage (250)
• Alain Locke / The Legacy of Ancestral Arts (254)

Part II: The New Negro in the New World
• Paul U. Kellogg / The Negro Pioneers (271)
• Charles S. Johnson / The New Frontage on American Life (278)
• Helene Johnson / The Road (300)
The New Scene:
• James Weldon Johnson / Harlem: The Culture Capital (301)
• Kelly Miller / Howard: The National Negro University (312)
• Robert R. Moton / Hampton-Tuskegee: Missioners of the Masses (323)
• E. Franklin Frazier / Durham: Capital of the Black Middle Class (333)
• W. A. Domingo / Gift of the Black Tropics (341)
The Negro and the American Tradition:
• Melville J. Herskovits / The Negro's Americanism (353)
• Walter White / The Paradox of Color (361)
• Elise Johnson McDougald / The Task of Negro Womanhood (369)
Worlds of Color:
• W. E. B. DuBois / The Negro Mind Reaches Out (385)

Bibliography
Who's Who of the Contributors (415)
A Selected List of Negro Americana and Africana (421)
The Negro in Literature (427)
Negro Drama (432)
Negro Music (434)
Negro Folk Lore (442)
The Negro Race Problems (449)

 
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