A Different Drummer: the extraordinary rediscovered classic of 2018 by William Melvin Kelley

A Different Drummer: the extraordinary rediscovered classic of 2018 by William Melvin KelleyIn 1962, aged just 24, William Melvin Kelley's debut novel A Different Drummer earned him critical comparisons to James Baldwin and William Faulkner. Fifty five years later, author and journalist Kathryn Schulz happened upon the novel serendipitously and was inspired to write the New Yorker article 'The Lost Giant of American Literature', included as a foreword to this edition. June, 1957. One afternoon, in the backwater town of Sutton, a young black

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Graeme Dixon began writing poetry while he was in Fremantle Prison and his poems address contemporary and controversial issues - from Black deaths in custody to the struggles of single mothers - and are as relevant today as when his book was first published

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