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Loving Day (novel)
''Loving Day'' is a 2015 novel by Mat Johnson, published by Spiegel & Grau on May 26, 2015. Johnson described the book as "my coming out as a mulatto" and Baz Dreisinger of ''The New York Times'' described ''Loving Day'' as "a semi-autobiographical" "extended literary metaphor about race and mixed-race in America."Dreisinger, Baz.‘Loving Day,’ by Mat Johnson. ''The New York Times''. June 7, 2015. Retrieved on March 2, 2016. The novel's title refers to Loving Day, when the U.S. Supreme Court nullified bans on interracial marriage.Michaud, Jon.Book Review: A gently funny exploration of biracial identity. ''Washington Post''. June 11, 2015. Retrieved on March 2, 2016. Plot The novel, set in the Germantown section of Philadelphia,Nereim, Michele.Burnin’ It Down: A Q&A with Mat Johnson Archive. Brazos Bookstore. Retrieved on March 2, 2016. is about Warren Duffy, a comic book artist who received a mansion from his deceased father, an Irish-American. Duffy's mother, who was blac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loving Day (novel)
''Loving Day'' is a 2015 novel by Mat Johnson, published by Spiegel & Grau on May 26, 2015. Johnson described the book as "my coming out as a mulatto" and Baz Dreisinger of ''The New York Times'' described ''Loving Day'' as "a semi-autobiographical" "extended literary metaphor about race and mixed-race in America."Dreisinger, Baz.‘Loving Day,’ by Mat Johnson. ''The New York Times''. June 7, 2015. Retrieved on March 2, 2016. The novel's title refers to Loving Day, when the U.S. Supreme Court nullified bans on interracial marriage.Michaud, Jon.Book Review: A gently funny exploration of biracial identity. ''Washington Post''. June 11, 2015. Retrieved on March 2, 2016. Plot The novel, set in the Germantown section of Philadelphia,Nereim, Michele.Burnin’ It Down: A Q&A with Mat Johnson Archive. Brazos Bookstore. Retrieved on March 2, 2016. is about Warren Duffy, a comic book artist who received a mansion from his deceased father, an Irish-American. Duffy's mother, who was blac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish-American
, image = Irish ancestry in the USA 2018; Where Irish eyes are Smiling.png , image_caption = Irish Americans, % of population by state , caption = Notable Irish Americans , population = 36,115,472 (10.9%) alone or in combination 10,899,442 (3.3%) Irish alone 33,618,500(10.1%) alone or in combination 9,919,263 (3.0%) Irish alone , popplace = Boston New York City Scranton Philadelphia New Orleans Pittsburgh Cleveland Chicago Baltimore Detroit Milwaukee Louisville New England Delaware Valley Coal Region Los Angeles Las Vegas Atlanta Sacramento San Diego Houston Dallas San Francisco Palm Springs, California Fairbanks and most urban areas , langs = English ( American English dialects); a scant speak Irish , rels = Protestant (51%) Catholic (36%) Other (3%) No religion (10%) (2006) , related = Anglo-Irish people Breton Americans Cornish Americans English Americans Irish Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By Mat Johnson
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
