![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Native Son tells the story of impoverished twenty-year-old Bigger Thomas who lives in a poor area on Chicago’s South Side in the 1930’s. Published over eighty years ago to both enduring and critical responses from many other African-American writers, including – perhaps most famously – James Baldwin’s Notes on a Native Son. Much like Cole’s other recommendations, there’s no doubt about it that Native Son is a sobering read. And so it was that when I was thumbing through the many unread tomes in my apartment the other day, I quickly landed on Richard Wright’s most famous novel, and settled down to read it, not really knowing what I was in for. I’ve gone on to read – and love – a number of the books Cole recommended me, including the powerful and poignant Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates and The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. The first time I remember hearing about the book Native Son by Richard Wright was when Cole Brown – a previous guest on my podcast – chose it as one of his desert island books. ![]()
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