![]() ![]() Young explains that in the Louisiana environs of his extended family, it's common to respond to an apparent fib not with an accusation of lying, but with something softer: "You story," folks say. ![]() Though the book is capacious, discursive, even meandering, it's guided by large ideas and themes, chief of which are the various modes of fabrication seen in African-American culture, particularly literature and music. There are also nods to French theorists and soul food - everything, in other words, and the kitchen sink. Kevin Young's "The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness," winner of Graywolf Press' vital nonfiction prize, is a collection of unified essays that takes in centuries of (mostly) African-American culture, from Revolutionary Era poet Phillis Wheatley to hip-hop abstractionists Wu-Tang Clan. ![]()
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