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Victor LaValle
Victor LaValle
American Author
Born: Feb 3, 1972
Black Book Me People World You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males. Victor LaValle
Beautiful Man Black Ralph Chaotic Project Complexity Exactly Invisible Male Males American Assert Extension
'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh. Victor LaValle
Humor Laugh Kind Would Written Make
The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the book of Esther. I'll happily join that list. Victor LaValle
Book King Horror Join Vast Stephen King Genre Shirley Jackson List Happily Full Brilliance
'The Ballad of Black Tom' was written, in part, during the latest round of arguments about H. P. Lovecraft's legacy as both a great writer and a prejudiced man. I grew up worshipping the guy, so this issue felt quite personal to me. Victor LaValle
Great Me Man Black Argument Latest Worshipping About Guy Both Writer Part Written Great Writer Felt Ballad Issue Up Legacy Personal Quite Grew Prejudiced Tom Round
The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back. Victor LaValle
People Losing Edge Despair Back Everything Bit About Write Come Most How Am Falling Exist Trying Interested Last
On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle. Victor LaValle
Time Battle Three Soldier Soldiers Had He Line Command Been His Years Georgia June Mountain Efficiency Northern Bravery Union
In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long. Victor LaValle
Challenge Long Big Reader Big Challenge Fiction Place Keep
Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed. Victor LaValle
Black Lonely Kid Haunting More Had New Towns Hill House Looming Felt Queens Shirley York Jackson New York Doomed Whether Fun
I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school. Victor LaValle
School Since Well Read Grade Grade School Much Level
Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives. Victor LaValle
Thoughts People World Reading Others Share Private Interests Keep Lives
No one ever knows if a book is good until they read the book. Victor LaValle
Good Book No-One Until Read Knows Ever
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