12 - Great Black Writers

What this episode covers

Welcome to the last episode of season one! Barry and Aaron address the elephant in the room: they are two white men who have been talking about dead white authors. Therefore, recording on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2020, Barry and Aaron dive into the topic of African-American authors. Since 1965 and well into the twenty-first century, Barry introduced more than one generation to literature written by black authors. Authors like James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Chester Himes, John A. Williams (The Man Who Cried I Am), John Edgar Wideman, Toni Morrison, and W. E. B. Dubois are important not fundamentally because they are black authors but because they are good authors.

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