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Randall Kenan

Randall Kenan  is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina and the author of A Visitation of Spirits and Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, among other books.

Ralph Ellison

Visible Man

An intimate view of a great American writer

by Randall Kenan | Monday, December 02, 2019

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Plunging to Earth

by Robert Zaretsky

Still dreaming up ways to safely enjoy this year’s summer vacation? “Safe” may be a relative term here—but if you’re feeling brave, you could take up skydiving, as Robert Zaretsky once did. “As I fell,” he wrote in our Summer 2011 issue, “I blurted out—like so many others have, I later learned—‘Mommy!’”

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