Upcoming Book Events
Audre Lorde Project and Brecht Forum presents...
Ernest Hardy reading from Blood Beats: Vol. 2, moderated by Kenyon Farrow
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
7:00pm - 9:30pm
Audre Lorde Project
85 South Oxford St.
Brooklyn, NY
Robin's Bookstore, Philly
Friday, October 3, 2008
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Robin's Bookstore
108 South 13th St.
Philadelphia, PA
ALSO
The Death of the Critic
USC; September 24 2008
By Ernest Hardy
I had a conversation with the great Greg Tate earlier this year in which he observed that many Black folk who in the ‘70s and ‘80s would have been poets and novelists are now going into academia because they have more freedom and possibility to come into their own as creative critical thinkers. I would suggest that the same is true for folks who at one time would have been music or film critics. That’s all great for the world of academia, its various journals and university presses, but it leaves a debilitating and collectively retarding void in mainstream cultural discourse.
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