Passing the Three Gates: Interviews with Charles Johnson by Charles Richard Johnson
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Passing the Three Gates: Interviews with Charles Johnson Charles Richard Johnson
Language: English
Page: 370
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0295984392, 9780295984391
Publisher: University of Washington Press
"Among the most brilliant writers in America, Charles Johnson possesses a complex vision of art, spirituality, culture, and race that is expressed most powerfully, no doubt, in his wonderful novels and short stories. However, this book allows us, perhaps, a more explicit and varied engagement with this vision, and his surpassing intellectual range and his hard-won wisdom. It is both an essential companion to his superb fiction and a treasure in its own right." - Arnold Rampersad, Stanford University "Passing the Three Gates is a well-crafted collection. It suggests not only the breadth of Charles Johnson's thought but its essential unity, and while it ranges across literature, politics, philosophy, art, and spirituality, it reveals a vision and an intellect of enormous vitality and power. Anyone interested in understanding Johnson will find it indispensable, and anyone already familiar with Johnson will find in it persistent corroboration of his singular genius." - David Guterson "Today there is so much talk that it almost seems an epidemic of syllabic noise. That one can not only speak with eloquence but think up above the trivial - as well as down far below sea level - is a boon to our moment. As a writer, Charles Johnson has repeatedly established himself and his position in a confused and confusing era. As a talker, while remaining right on the case of this age we find ourselves in, Charles Johnson moves us back into those times when conversation was a serious thing, when windbags were either not allowed or were outside of earshot. His mind and his writing are two of the marvels of our time and, here, he proves that the same is true of his talk." - Stanley Crouch "A standing ovation! I was already impressed with Charles Johnson as a novelist, and now this collection of interviews confirms him as a thinker and reveals that, indeed, behind his ideas of philosophical fiction stands a first rate philosopher. As entertaining as they are insightful, these interviews give us a greater understanding of Charles Johnson's oeuvre and mark him as that rare lion of American Letters: an original." - August Wilson "These are, in the true sense, conversations: they show the writer listening as well as speaking - and paying close attention to the work of words. This has long been one of Charles Johnson's great strengths: his ability to witness and, in the very act of witnessing, change what and how we see. To focus as well as enlarge it. At the end of the book one wants to hear more, and I put it away with the happy conviction that this is a writer to treasure, a book to return to again and again." - Nicholas Delbanco
Jim McWilliams is associate professor of English at Dickinson State University, North Dakota.
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