The Invisible Man (1897) is one of the most famous science fiction novels of all time. Written by H.G. Wells (1866-1946), it tells the story of a scientist who discovers the secret of invisibility... More > and uses it on himself. The story begins as the Invisible Man, with a bandaged face and a heavy coat and gloves, takes a train to lodge in a country inn whilst he tries to discover the antidote and make himself visible again. The book inspired several films and is notable for its vivid descriptions of the invisible man–no mean feat, given that you can’t see him!< Less
"Project of grieving you/ Hurry up and leave/ so I can/ grieve you ..."
"prayers of Calcitrant" is a self-conscious poetry waiting for life to pass by so that it can have... More > memories. Each poem within is as agitated as it is excitable - seeking God and Christ with a list of diligently self-indulgent and earnest questions. These are the questions no one is allowed to ask in church. They thrust the reader into a space where man seeks relationship over religion, though guiltily. "Calcitrant" pushes the comfortable secular into the personal space of Christian righteousness to see who will kiss the other first - and who will be the first to tell.< Less
"Project of grieving you/ Hurry up and leave/ so I can/ grieve you ..."
"prayers of Calcitrant" is a self-conscious poetry waiting for life to pass by so that it can have... More > memories. Each poem within is as agitated as it is excitable - seeking God and Christ with a list of diligently self-indulgent and earnest questions. These are the questions no one is allowed to ask in church. They thrust the reader into a space where man seeks relationship over religion, though guiltily. "Calcitrant" pushes the comfortable secular into the personal space of Christian righteousness to see who will kiss the other first - and who will be the first to tell.< Less
This is a collection of lost stories about the Harlem Renaissance. They are the voices of ordinary people who came to Harlem to start new lives. They created a new culture, the first generation of... More > African-Americans.< Less
Barry Nix, an experienced writer and editor, has produced a debut novel of stunning impact. Part historical drama, part travelogue, part thriller, and part cultural polemic, it speaks to the... More > inner-directed search for a full life in our time. Employing an earthiness and sensuality infused with a keen intellect, an ear for dialect and a magical-realist transcendence, The Real Lives of Dreamers will spur many conversations about who we are and how we got here. It speaks passionately of the psychic costs and rewards of capitalism as artists and cultural beings strive to be accepted on their own terms.< Less
Barry Nix, an experienced writer and editor, has produced a debut novel of stunning impact. Part historical drama, part travelogue, part thriller, and part cultural polemic, it speaks to the... More > inner-directed search for a full life in our time. Employing an earthiness and sensuality infused with a keen intellect, an ear for dialect and a magical-realist transcendence, The Real Lives of Dreamers will spur many conversations about who we are and how we got here. It speaks passionately of the psychic costs and rewards of capitalism as artists and cultural beings strive to be accepted on their own terms.< Less
A handbook on writing, with instructions intended for students and for self-help with sentence structure, paragraph construction, beginnings and endings, diction, irony, similes, metaphors, levels of... More > usage, parallelism and other elements of good writing,illustrated with examples from writers including Rachel Carson, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and Herman Melville.
Exercises test the reader's understanding and progress.< Less
Invisible Man is a 1952 novel written by Ralph Ellison. It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing African-Americans early in the twentieth century, including black nationalism,... More > the relationship between black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T. Washington, as well as issues of individuality and personal identity.
Invisible Man won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1953. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Invisible Man nineteenth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.< Less
Violence is the stuff of which the history of the human race is written—and the never ending cycle goes on, and for all purposes, all we do is wring out hands in total shock and incapacitation,... More > or simply look on with indifference. Quoting Shirley Jackson’s on her most anthologized short fiction “The Lottery,” “. . . by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite [emphasis mine] in the present and in my own village, to shock the story’s reader with a graphic dramatization of the pointless and general inhumanity in their own lives,” it is hoped that the senselessness of it will hit home. In what Ralph Ellison terms “fictional truth,” the events and acts so described in this story, about other human beings caught in the madness of pride, avarice, and sheer stupidiy, do we find examples of our better natures.< Less
