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John Edgar Wideman in Podcasts

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African-American writer, professor emeritus at Brown University, known for blending fiction with autobiography, explores themes of violence and history.

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The Bookshelf
Short stories from Robert Drewe, Curtis Sittenfeld, Roxane Gay, Lauren Groff, William Trevor & John Edgar Wideman

And I should say that John Edgar Wideman's American Histories is published by Canongate.

The Bookshelf
Short stories from Robert Drewe, Curtis Sittenfeld, Roxane Gay, Lauren Groff, William Trevor & John Edgar Wideman

And the first story in the collection is a sort of dialogue and exchanges between Frederick Douglass, the black former slave and abolitionist, and the white anti-slavery crusader John Brown.

The Bookshelf
Short stories from Robert Drewe, Curtis Sittenfeld, Roxane Gay, Lauren Groff, William Trevor & John Edgar Wideman

Whereas I think Wideman's playing around with the form a bit more.

The Bookshelf
Short stories from Robert Drewe, Curtis Sittenfeld, Roxane Gay, Lauren Groff, William Trevor & John Edgar Wideman

Like sometimes I was reading the book and trying to peer through it and sort of being like, is that you, John?

The Bookshelf
Short stories from Robert Drewe, Curtis Sittenfeld, Roxane Gay, Lauren Groff, William Trevor & John Edgar Wideman

Well, that's certainly an issue with one of the collections that you've read for us today, and that's John Edgar Wideman's American History.