Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black ManBy: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "This is a book of stories," writes Henry Louis Gates, "and all might be described as 'narratives of ascent.'" As some remarkable men talk about their lives, many perspectives on race and gender emerge. For the notion of the unitary black man, Gates argues, is as imaginary as the creature that the poet Wallace Stevens conjured in his poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." James Baldwin, Colin Powell, Harry

From triceratops to tyrannosaurs and stegosauruses to pterodactyls

or at home cooking dinner

Then Grandmother Johnson calls

pirate food

and listings given from almost a thousand systems in total

But besties clash when Gabby’s new friends rank the other girls in their grade in categories like looks

and Victoria’s brother

After nine rounds of IVF

and all kinds of love and laughter—even an occasional murder

obsessive ritualism

games and more

但是，沒有人了解馬修為什麼要不斷的洗手、戴上手套隔絕外界，甚至無法去上學，他就像一隻魚缸裡的金魚，每天待在房間裡、看著窗外的世界、無聊的觀察鄰居的生活瑣事，並且記錄在筆記本中。