For “Twelve Great Authors Pick Their Essential American Book,” TIME magazine asked me to name one book by an American author everyone should read. I was honored to be asked, but it was hard to settle on only one!
I chose this.
What do James Baldwin, Aaron Copeland, Delmore Schwartz, Leonard Bernstein, Philip Roth, Sylvia Plath, Milton Avery, Ned Rorem, Carson McCullers…
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“Tales from Here and There: On Ugandan Literary Culture,” which appeared in the Millions, was one of my all-time…
