In his first nonfiction collection, Thompson muses on different art forms and their relation to his own experiences as an African-American in the post-Civil Rights era.
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CLIFFORD THOMPSON received a Whiting Writers' Award for nonfiction in 2013 for LOVE FOR SALE AND OTHER ESSAYS (Autumn House Press). He is the author of a memoir, TWIN OF BLACKNESS (Autumn House Press, 2015), as well as the novel Signifying Nothing, and his essays on books, film, jazz, and American identity have appeared in publications including The Threepenny Review, The Iowa Review, Commonweal, Film Quarterly, Cineaste, Oxford American, and Black Issues Book Review. For over a dozen years he served as editor in chief of Current Biography, and he has held adjunct professorships at Columbia University and New York University. Thompson is married with two daughters and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
"This collection, [Thompson's] first, is one of the best I've read in a while. . . . This book introduces you to a mind and a sensibility--smart, honest, and judicious--that you'll want to spend more time with." -- Commonweal
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