From the Book - First edition.
I. THE FOREIGNER'S HOME. The dead of September 11
A race in mind: the press in deed
The prince of wealth, the cost of care
Sarah Lawrence commencement address
The slavebody and the blackbody
Harlem on my mind: contesting memory: meditation on museums, culture, and integration
Literature and public life
The Nobel lecture in literature
The future of time: literature and diminished expectations
INTERLUDE: BLACK MATTERS. Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unspeakable things unspoken: the Afro-American presence in American literature
Gertrude Stein and the difference she makes
PART II. GOD'S LANGUAGE. James Baldwin eulogy
The writer before the page
The trouble with paradise
Introduction of Peter Sellars
Tribute to Romare Bearden
The source of self-regard
Memory, creation, and fiction
Memory, creation, and fiction
Goodbye to all that: race, surrogacy, and farewell
Invisible ink: reading the writing and writing the reading.