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HAM, INTERRUPTED.(Brief Article)

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| October 07, 2002 | Als, Hilton | COPYRIGHT 2002 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

In 1966, near the end of his life, Langston Hughes sent an anthology of short stories he had edited to Marianne Moore, that most psychologically astute of modernist poets. Moore wrote back to congratulate him on having managed to get a group of young black writers published at a time when almost no one of a similar stature, it seemed, was even trying to do so. "Inimitable, irresistible Langston," she wrote. "I do not know why you were not spoiled with love and care, from the cradle on, and were not a proud boy!" Hughes's pathos--as a man and as a writer--lies, of course, in the various pleas for love he made, not for himself but for his race. As a "race man," Hughes ...

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