Some friends who live in Harlem tipped me off that the building where Ralph Ellison wrote Invisible Man is for sale. In Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius, Lawrence Jackson writes that Ellison moved into the ground floor apartment of 749 St. Nicholas Ave., in Harlem, in 1946, and that he and his wife kept Scotch terriers in the backyard.
Recently printed
- "Nice Work If You Can Get It," The National (Abu Dhabi), 2 July 2009
- "Toil and Trouble," New York Times Book Review, 28 June 2009
- "Brother, Can You Spare a Room?" New York Times Book Review, 29 March 2009
- "Random Facts of Kindness," The National (Abu Dhabi), 27 February 2009
- "There Was Blood," The New Yorker, 19 January 2009
- "Children of the Left, Unite!" New York Times Book Review, 11 January 2009
- "Pixies, Sheilas, Dirtbags and Cougar Bait," The Nation, 29 December 2008
- "Good at Being Gods," London Review of Books, 18 December 2008
- "A World of a Different Color," New York Times Book Review, 30 November 2008
- "Lonely Together," The National (Abu Dhabi), 31 October 2008
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