Research Catalog

Title

The words and wisdom of Charles Johnson / Charles Johnson.

Author

Johnson, Charles, 1948-

Publication

Ann Arbor, MI : Dzanc Books, 2015.

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Details

Description

xii, 672 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Over the course of 2011, E. Ethelbert Miller interviewed National Book Award-winner Charles Johnson on a wide range of topics, from Buddhism to race relations in America to his writing habits, and everything in between. This collection contains Johnson's responses and gives readers a candid look into the mind of one of the most celebrated voices in American literature."--Page [4] of cover.

Uniform Title

Essays. Selections

Alternative Title

Essays.

Subject

• Johnson, Charles, 1948- > Interviews
• Johnson, Charles, 1948- > Political and social views
• REFERENCE / Curiosities & Wonders
• African American authors > Biography
• African American intellectuals > Biography

Genre/Form

American essays – African American authors.

Note

• "A work from the Johnson Construction Co."

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The E-Channel: Lessons Learned From a Year In The Writer's House -- A Day In The Life of Charles Johnson -- Introduction to Charles Johnson - 001 -- Charles Johnson Reflects On The Life Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr -- Dreamer by Charles Johnson -- Charles Johnson On King And Western Philosophy -- Remembering King-- -- The Many Sermons of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Charles Johnson Talks About Black Men -- Johnson On Sports And Martial Arts -- Correspondence Between Charles Johnson And E. Ethelbert Miller -- Charles Johnson Talks About Poetry -- At The Movies With Charles Johnson -- Charles Johnson And The Beats -- Charles Johnson In San Francisco -- The Women And Mr. Johnson -- CJ Remembers AWP -- Guide To The Self - 101 -- Charles Johnson Talks About The Middle Passage -- Coming Attractions-- -- Science Fiction And The Philosophical Novel -- Charles Johnson On Craft And Revision -- Welcome To Wedgwood -- Writers And Editors -- The Writing Space -- Charles Johnson Will Make You Smile And Laugh -- Mindfulness On The Mind Of Charles Johnson -- Charles Johnson On Ralph Ellison -- The Prize And The Judge -- Looking At Class -- The Joy Of Sanskrit, Or Language Brought To Formal Perfection -- August Wilson -- The Night Hawk Flys Again -- Charles Johnson On Teachers And Mentors -- Charles Johnson On Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Johnson Comments On Science And Technology -- In Search Of The Miraculous -- The First Nobel Truth: Suffering Exists. The Second Noble Truth-- -- Engaged Buddhism -- Johnson And Johnson -- Charles Johnson On The Novel -- Kwoon By Charles Johnson: An Explanation of a short story -- Behind The Walls With Charles Johnson -- Charles Johnson At Home In Seattle -- Sweet Dreams And The Creation Of Stories -- Philosophy, Science And Charles Johnson -- A Charles Johnson Reflection: When Friends And Faith Are Good Things -- What Is The E-Channel? -- Charles Johnson Talks About Soulcatcher And Other Stories -- A Phenomenology Of The Black Body -- At Home Inside The Mind Of Charles Johnson -- The Editor Charles Johnson -- Moving Pictures: A Closer Look -- Charles Johnson On Screenwriting -- Charles Johnson And The Good Stuff -- Charles Johnson Talks About His Love For Dogs -- The First Readers -- Sex, Slavery And Oxherding Tale -- The Character Mattie In Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale -- The Soulcatcher Cometh -- Karl Marx In The Fiction Of Charles Johnson -- Charles Johnson: Reflections on Life -- The N-Word -- All You Need To Know About The Allmuseri -- Literary Advice FromThe Desk Of Charles Johnson -- Cultural Relativity By Charles Johnson -- Executive Decision And Affirmative Action. Charles Johnson Explains-- -- The Sorcerer's Apprentice -- The Big Mac: The MacArthur Awards -- The Art Of Book Reviewing -- Charles Johnson Talks About Libraries -- Charles Johnson: Stage And Screen -- Charles Johnson On Family Wisdom And Work -- The Unpublished Work Of Charles Johnson -- Charles Johnson On Biography And Bright Moments -- Blacks And Buddhism/ Buddhism And Blacks -- Progress In Literature -- The Real Faith And The Good Thing -- Charles Johnson Talks About The E-Channel -- Constructing Fiction: The Writing of Dr. King's Refrigerator -- Ellison: Still Visible After All These Years -- Hermann Hesse And Charles Johnson -- Charles Johnson In Translation -- Dragon Slayers -- Words For Our Fathers -- Popper's Disease By Charles Johnson -- The First Tribe Of Charles Johnson -- Charles Johnson On Critics, Themes And Things -- Technology And Our Changing World -- The One -- Fiction And The Liberation Of Perception -- New Fiction Novelists -- The World According To John Gardner -- Charles Johnson Talks About Stanley Crouch -- From Gardner To Johnson To Guterson -- The Wounds That Create Our Work -- The Philosophical Reasons For Doing The Hanky-Panky -- Menagerie, A Child's Fable By Charles Johnson -- The Writer And Philosophy -- Alethia, Alethia-- -- The Name Game -- The Image Known As Charles Johnson -- Charles Johnson Talks About Bruce Lee -- Charles Johnson On. W.E.B. DuBois -- How We Sound -- Teaching In Black And White -- Teaching In Black And White, Part II -- The Reading Life -- A Major Question For Charles Johnson -- Charles Johnson Dreams A World -- Charles Johnson Talks Visual -- Her Name Is Adrian Piper. The card speaks for itself -- Lawrence of Seattle -- Almost August and other things -- Does Everybody Love Malcolm? -- The Outsider By Richard Wright -- The Path The 10 Precepts, The Life-- -- Charles Johnson On Buddhism -- Death Is A Bridge We All Must Cross -- Cartoons As Visual Poems -- Buddhist Fiction: A Comment By Charles Johnson -- Parks And Photographs -- Meditation Meditation Meditation -- Are We Reading High On The Hog? -- Moving Wright And Moving East -- The Central Conflict In Dreamer By Charles Johnson -- Remembering Lee Goerner -- A Look Inside The Dreamer -- Charles Johnson Embracing The World -- Charles Johnson's Next Move -- Looking For Charles Johnson Inside Charles Johnson -- The Dream Inside The Dreamer -- Mind Over Race Matters -- Examining Life With W.E.B. DuBois -- Friends And Writers -- In Search Of Christian Socialism -- In Defense of Our Language -- Nothing But A President: Barack Obama And The Mythology Of Black Men -- The Teacher Charles Johnson -- The Future We Face: Integration And Multiculturalism -- Johnson On Avoiding The Spokesperson Box. No Guilt Here -- Wells, Bradbury And Johnson -- Saying Hello To the Elephants Again -- Ellison As Remix? -- Telling It Long And Telling It Short -- One Minute Past Midnight: Time for another bedtime story by Charles Johnson -- The Charles Johnson Society: Are you now or have you ever been-- -- The Man In The Middle Of The Middle Passage -- The Creative Writing Teacher As Soulcatcher -- Charles Johns Is Miles Ahead. Wouldn't you say, mate? -- Tell Me A Good Essay -- The Literary Duet: Creative Writing And Critical Theory -- Baa Baa Black Sheep Have You A Black Aesthetic? -- The Voice Of One Man -- The Culture Wars -- When We Were Young And Wanted To Be Journalists And Not MFA Students -- The Risks We Take, The Risks We Live With, The Risks We Write About -- D.H. Lawrence -- Creative Philosophy: What You Need To Know -- Show Me The Philosophy -- Discovering The Fasciniating World Of Words -- Nature Gives Us No Metaphors -- The Blues of Sisyphus -- Writing Repairs -- Tell Me A Zen Tale -- Violence In The Spirit -- Charles Johnson Talks About Rudolph Byrd -- The Fourth Stage -- Where Have All The Black Fathers Gone? -- A Return To The Old Pad -- Charles Johnson And The Good Thing -- Fate And Destiny: Letting The Birds Go Free -- The Vision Of Charles Johnson -- Charles Johnson Responds To The Reader Rossi -- Johnson's Private Thoughs On Public Intellectuals -- What Does The E Stand For? -- Charles Johnson Face To Face -- The Philosophy Of Karl Marx -- In Search Of Sartre and The Nothingness Of Being -- Show Me The Story-- Not The Bunny -- Charles Johnson And The Magic Of Nature -- Charles Johnson In The Presence Of Ella Tweedy -- 100 Rays Of Light -- Our Fathers, Ourselves -- Taking Refuge In The Dharma -- Tell Me Something About Blackness And I'll Tell You Something About Buddhism -- Talking About The Banks Of Friendship -- The Poverty Of Wealth -- A Tribute To Gary Storhoff -- Flight Don't Fail Me Now-- -- Her Name Is Baleka -- Writing Is Thinking -- Charles Johnson On The Political Cartoon, Or Is It Only Funny When Everyone Laughs? -- Charles Johnson Writes Back To Frantz Fanon -- The Long Shadow Of Booker T. Washington -- The Crisis Next Time? -- The Race And The Rhinoceros -- Imaginative Reconstruction -- Dunbar's Mask -- If We Must Die -- Self Examination: Charles Johnson talks about Charles Johnson -- Occupying Prose: The Protest Novel -- Johnson On Philosophy And The Humanities -- When The Buddhist Is A Black Man Or A Black Woman -- Being, Race And Broad Celebration -- The Johnson List Of Philosphical Questions -- The Fourth Context -- What Does The E Stand For? -- Johnson & Selzer At The MLA -- Kamadhatu: A Modern Sutra -- From Silence To Skeeter -- The Essential E-Channel: Holding Onto Truth.

ISBN

• 9781936873647 (pbk.)
• 1936873648 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2014037079

OCLC

894149465

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library