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who appears to play the role of a surrogate paterfamilias

Jonathan Franzen wrote a review for the New York Times that ignored any discussion of race, a stupefying lacuna; Whitehead says that Franzen in fact later apologized for it

the pallid lighting of underground transfer halls

Even within poems packed with dross, he’ll find his way to something, to a moment you won’t forget.

George Herriman was a New Orleans Creole, and the comedy has a laconic Southern charm to its arrangement