"Six years after the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement.Louis Charles (“Lucy”) Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them, their son now a grown man. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he’s had plenty of reasons not to be—chief amo ..."
"When the towering African American intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909, he also launched a magazine as a literary extension of the organization. The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races was first published in 1910, articulating the social, political, and economic concerns of blacks on a national and international scale--and showcasing many Afro-American writers, ..."
The Crisis Reader Stories, Poetry, Andessays from the N.A.A.C.P. Crisis Magazi (Harlem Renaissance) by SondraKatherineWilson, Modern Library Hardcover, 422 Pages, Published 1999 by Perfection Learning ISBN-13: 978-0-7569-0558-3, ISBN: 0-7569-0558-3
"A collection of fiction, poetry, and essays from "Crisis", the magazine thatlaunched the literature of the Harlem Renaissance."