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Criminal Minded: Chester Himes
This article was originally reprint in Mosaic #11, September 2001 Criminal Minded Before Walter Mosley, Colson Whitehead or Valerie Wilson Wesley there was Chester Himes. His novels have been signatures of Black crime noir novels. by Michael Marsh Himes’s approach to his first vocation, and his later writing, was simple and direct. In November 1928,…
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Mosaic 11
09/2001 Country Grammar Poet Nikky Finney talks about her southern roots and the poetry she writes. by Tara Betts Criminal Minded Before Walter Mosley, Colson Whitehead or Valerie Wilson Wesley there was Chester Himes. His novels have been signatures of Black crime noir novels. by Michael Marsh Assata Revisited Exiled in Cuba, Assata Shakur‘s shadow…
