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    The Words & Wisdom of Charles Johnson

    By Charles Johnson

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    National Book Award winner Charles Johnson muses about a wide range of topics, from Buddhism to race relations in America to his writing habits and everything in between. This collection gives readers a candid look into the mind of one of the most celebrated voices in American literature.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDzanc Books
    Release dateFeb 10, 2015
    ISBN9781941531075
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    The Words & Wisdom of Charles Johnson
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    Charles Johnson

    Charles Johnson is a novelist, essayist, literary scholar, philosopher, cartoonist, screenwriter, and professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. A MacArthur fellow, his fiction includes Night Hawks, Dr. King’s Refrigerator, Dreamer, Faith and the Good Thing, and Middle Passage, for which he won the National Book Award. In 2002 he received the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Seattle.

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    • 4/5
      Very enjoyable book with an interesting plot. I liked it!!
    • 4/5
      This is the third book by J. Robert Lennon that I've read, and while it is my least favourite one, I liked them all.Pieces for the Left Hand and The Light of Falling Stars had me wondering at this writers' capacities for painting people and relationships in a seemingly effortless way, and in The Funnies too, the characters came alive very quickly and very thoroughly. No cardboard figures here, but complex personalities in complex interactions, told in what would be a simple family story otherwise. But: a bit less captivating for me than his previous two books. Still, J. Robert Lennon is a writer I'll keep watching out for.
    • 3/5
      The story of five kids who grew up being a part of their dad's comic strip, The Family Funnies (similar to The Family Circus). But their real-life family is wildly dysfunctional. The book begins with the death of their dad when they all get together again for the first time in years.