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The Letters of Langston Hughes

h_hugheslangstonA dramatic reading from the letters of Langston Hughes, now published in a comprehensive edition for the first time and offering readers the full picture of a generous, visionary and gratifyingly good man who was a genius of modern American literature.

Edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel, this volume of correspondence—with Carl Van Vechten, Blanche Knopf, Zora Neale Hurston, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, Ezra Pound, Paul Robeson and James Baldwin—shows Hughes as a young writer finding his voice; struggling to support himself in a hostile landscape; using his artistic clout in the service of the disenfranchised; and bravely laughing at the world.











When: Mon., Feb. 23, 2015 at 8:00 pm
Where: The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Ave.
212-415-5500
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h_hugheslangstonA dramatic reading from the letters of Langston Hughes, now published in a comprehensive edition for the first time and offering readers the full picture of a generous, visionary and gratifyingly good man who was a genius of modern American literature.

Edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel, this volume of correspondence—with Carl Van Vechten, Blanche Knopf, Zora Neale Hurston, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, Ezra Pound, Paul Robeson and James Baldwin—shows Hughes as a young writer finding his voice; struggling to support himself in a hostile landscape; using his artistic clout in the service of the disenfranchised; and bravely laughing at the world.

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