On The American Prospect:
"Only" 55 lit stops in USA. It reminds me of my snooping and snooting on Langston Hughes. I had written him off as the Louie Armstrong of Black Am Lit. Sorry Langston!
As I overheard Hughes schmoozing at the Federal Palace hotel bar with Wole Soyinka at the First World Negro Arts Festival in Dakar, Senegal in 1964, suddenly my ears perked: "You must look into Leroi Jones, our most interesting new writer!"
I had invited Jones to Beaver College where he scandalized the faculty, but turned on the students!
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