God Help the Child on The Name of the Rose: “he visited the library often to read or reread books he had ignored or misunderstood while at university. The Name of the Rose, for one, and Remembering Slavery...”
God Help the Child on Remembering Slavery: “The Name of the Rose, for one, and Remembering Slavery, a collection that so moved him he composed some mediocre, sentimental music to commemorate the narratives.”
God Help the Child on Moby-Dick: “He read Herman Melville, and let Pip break his heart, reminding him of Adam alone, abandoned, swallowed by waves of casual evil.”
The Anthropocene Reviewed on Song of Solomon: “There is a grocery list in my copy of Song of Solomon, and directions to my great-aunt's house in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.”