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My soul looks back : a memoir / Jessica B. Harris.
Author
Harris, Jessica B.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Published/Created
New York : Scribner, 2017.
Description
xi, 257 pages ; 23 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
TX649.H348 A3 2017
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Subject(s)
African American cooks
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Biography
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African American cooking
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Women food writers
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United States
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Biography
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Cooking, American
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African American college teachers
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Harris, Jessica B.
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Cookbooks
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cookbooks
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Summary note
"In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls a lost era--the vibrant New York City of her youth, where her social circle included Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and other members of the Black intelligentsia. In the Technicolor glow of the early seventies, Jessica B. Harris debated, celebrated, and danced her way from the jazz clubs of the Manhattan's West Side to the restaurants of the Village, living out her buoyant youth alongside the great minds of the day--luminaries like Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison. My Soul Looks Back is her paean to that fascinating social circle and the depth of their shared commitment to activism, intellectual engagement, and each other. Harris paints evocative portraits of her illustrious friends: Baldwin as he read aloud an early draft of If Beale Street Could Talk, Angelou cooking in her California kitchen, and Morrison relaxing at Baldwin's house in Provence. Harris describes her role as theater critic for the New York Amsterdam News and editor at then burgeoning Essence magazine; star-studded parties in the South of France; drinks at Mikell's, a hip West Side club; and the simple joy these extraordinary people took in each other's company. The book is framed by Harris's relationship with Sam Floyd, a fellow professor at Queens College, who introduced her to Baldwin. More than a memoir of friendship and first love My Soul Looks Back is a carefully crafted, intimately understood homage to a bygone era and the people that made it so remarkable."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Club 81-Sammy and Jimmy
And the baby made three
Bantam Sam was the man
Oh, the people you'll meet!
Oh, the places you'll go! West side rambles
Wanderlust: Sonoma, Haiti, and Paris
Titine and Tabasco
Soul-full
Aftermath
It ain't over 'til it's over.
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ISBN
9781501125904 ((hardcover))
1501125907 ((hardcover))
9781501125928 ((pbk.))
1501125923 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2017012143
OCLC
979994372
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