The Walls Of Our Cage: Reading John Edgar Wideman
by Marc Eliot Stein Sunday, December 20, 2020 08:42 am
I took the #WidemanChallenge, in which a few literary critics, bloggers and journalists spent the end of 2020 calling attention to a writer that too few people know about: John Edgar Wideman, an important voice from the Rust Belt whose works are keenly relevant in the year of George Floyd. Here's what happened when I read two of his books.
