Standing in Lines

Standing in Lines

Paperback (19 Feb 2019)

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Publisher's Synopsis

This book includes 21 stories, a memoir, and a "mostly fact" account drawn from the author's imagination and rich life experiences that include a childhood in the boroughs of New York City and a career as a journalist/writer of nonfiction and fiction.

The stories show the author's expertise in the arts--notably jazz and classical music and movies--and interest in sports. The variety of stories also reflects a lifelong concern with civil rights and peace. Only a person widely read, eclectic in experience, and deeply interested in people and their lives could have written them.

Each story has a meaning richer than its plot or its setting. Each one expresses emotions and events that call on readers to respond with their own emotions--laughter, sadness, irony--and/or to apply the plot or story lines to their own experiences and points of view.

The story about the author's real-life encounter with Woody Guthrie comes from his roots in journalism and interest in music and arts. Readers may find out aspects of the beloved folk singer/writer's life they did not know. The final memoir recounts the origin of his deeply held commitment to peace.

The author's books include a primary source on school desegregation, They Closed Their Schools (UNC Press, now available from The Moton Museum, Farmville, Virginia), the story of a deaf child's quest to secure a sign language interpreter in her classes, A Case About Amy (Temple University Press), and a U.S. Department of Labor monograph, Seven Special Kids.

Book information

ISBN: 9781643399683
Publisher: Kathryn Baker Smith
Imprint: Kathryn Baker Smith
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 222
Weight: 304g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 12mm