[Unedited] Isabel Wilkerson with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Annotated Version of the Book of the Month
For the longest time it didn't have a title, and people would be asking me what to call then. The original book by richard wright, he hits, his autobiographis called black boy currently, but it originally was going to be called american hunger. It's an interesting story about what happened. Awhen he submitted it, he had difficulty getting it accepted to by the book of the month club,. which was a big deal at the time. And they said they would accept it as long as he only included the first half...and so he had to race to come up with a new ending. He came up with this distillation that can happen when you're under...
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