Mark your calendars: on April 20, 2021, The Library of America is going to be releasing Richard Wright's never before published novel, The Man Who Lived Underground.
It's been awhile since I did time with Mr. Wright, and I am really anxious to get my hands on this book. Amazon has it up for $18.49, which is almost 20% off the publisher's list price, but you know what? I think A can take its $4.46 and shove it up the ass. I'm definitely not buying this book from them. It's taken me a long time to figure out that $1 hamburgers & saving money by buying from Amazon are not always good deals. So I'll be looking for someplace local to spend my money.
BTW, Library of America also publishes Richard Wright: The Library of America Unexpurgated Edition, which includes Lawd Today!, Uncle Tom’s Children, Native Son, Black Boy (American Hunger), & The Outsider--all of which had been "expurged and abbreviated" by previous publishers. I've read Native Son and Black Boy previously, but I was going to read them again at some point, and it's exciting to think that I'll be able to read what Richard Wright wanted me to read, and not what his editors thought was acceptable for me to read.
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