![]() ![]() ![]() Life in academia is yet another-the struggles of graduate school, job seeking, and attaining tenure, and, at times, of being the only Black person in a white milieu. His life as a writer is another, with a particular emphasis on paying tribute to his late writing teacher, short story writer James Alan McPherson. Parenting and disability is one: he is the child of blind parents, and the parent of a son with a neurological disorder that causes seizures. ![]() Beginning with Frederick Douglass’s famous declaration, “You have seen how a man was made a slave you shall see how a slave was made a man,” Walker tackles a number of themes through his 22 selections. Walker ( Once More to the Ghetto), an Emerson College creative writing professor, delivers a stylish and thought-provoking collection of reflections on his personal and professional life. ![]()
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