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*** Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay**** ****Semi-Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor**** ****Finalist for the New England Book Award**** ****Longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award****
In this engaging follow up to How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, the recipient of PEN New England Award for nonfiction and finalist for the National Book Award sharply examines and explains Black life and culture with equal parts candor and humor.
In Magically Black and Other Essays Jerald Walker elegantly blends personal revelation and cultural critique to create a bracing and often humorous examination of Black American life. He thoughtfully addresses the inherent complexities of topics as eclectic as incarceration, home renovations, gentrification, the crip walk, pimping, and the rise of the MAGA movement, approaching them through various Black perspectives, including husband, father, teacher, and writer. The collection’s overarching theme is captured in the titular essay, which examines the culture of heroic action African Americans created in response to their enslavement and oppression, giving proof to Albert Murray’s observation that the “fire in the forging process . . . for all its violence, does not destroy the metal that becomes the sword.”
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“Aaron Goodson presents moving personal essays that vividly depict the joys, sorrows, and frustrations of an American Black man…Audio vividly conveys Walker’s inspiring teaching and warm family relations, along with the personal and professional risks he’s taken in his extraordinary life. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
— AudioFile
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“Delivering sharp assessments of America’s racist mores and brimming with pathos and levity, this packs a punch.”
— Publishers Weekly
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About Jerald Walker
Jerald Walker is an associate professor of creative writing at Emerson College. He is the author of Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption, which won the 2011 PEN New England/L. L. Winship Award for Nonfiction and was named a “Best Memoir of the Year” by Kirkus Reviews.
About Aaron Goodson
Robin Miles, named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, has twice won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration, an Audie Award for directing, and many Earphones Awards. Her film and television acting credits include The Last Days of Disco, Primary Colors, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order, New York Undercover, National Geographic’s Tales from the Wild, All My Children, and One Life to Live. She regularly gives seminars to members of SAG and AFTRA actors’ unions, and in 2005 she started Narration Arts Workshop in New York City, offering audiobook recording classes and coaching. She holds a BA degree in theater studies from Yale University, an MFA in acting from the Yale School of Drama, and a certificate from the British American Drama Academy in England.