It is November 1998, and I have arranged for James McBride, author of The Color of Water, to visit the college composition course I am teaching at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women in Westchester, NY. McBride’s book was already on best-seller lists before he and his mother appeared on Oprah, and he has […]

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