Wilson Brown, an escaped slave, was indeed awarded the Congressional Medal of Honour for his heroic actions under the Command of Rear Admiral David Glasgow Farragut during the Battle of Mobile Bay. The novel depicts most graphically the life of African-Americans under slavery. Just as Wilson Brown was able to preserve his dignity and worth as a human being under extraordinarily trying circumstances, so too has Brandon resurrected his authentic self-hood.
Wilson Brown, an escaped slave, was indeed awarded the Congressional Medal of Honour for his heroic actions under the Command of Rear Admiral David Glasgow Farragut during the Battle of Mobile Bay. The novel depicts most graphically the life of African-Americans under slavery. Just as Wilson Brown was able to preserve his dignity and worth as a human being under extraordinarily trying circumstances, so too has Brandon resurrected his authentic self-hood.
An astounding and astonishing debut novel by Brandon Pitts writing as Simon Occulis." Being a teenager in a Manhattan Project town forms the foundation of my art. When you grow up in a community where the people are proud that they made the plutonium flor the Nagasaki and trinity test bombs, you can't get away from it. I created The Gospel of Now and the companion artworks to document that surreal space of living in an isolated Manhattan Project town at the zenith of the Cold War, and its under-documented contribution, along with other rural Washington State communities, to the Seattle cultural explosion of the 90s." - Brandon Pitts"The day I quit taking Ritalin, I realized I was fucked. Eighteen, uneducated, and dependent on a drug I couldn't afford without my father's health insurance - I was already a loser. Could've tried harder, but what was the point? It was 1986, and my generation was the first in a century that wouldn't do as well as their parents. The music sucked, the clothes were shitty, and everything people valued seemed ridiculous. This is what happens when you elect a movie star as president. Life used to be different. I was a happy kid and felt good about myself. I was cool with Christ and enjoyed going to church until I was old enough to be called upon to read from the bible. That's when trouble began. My father sat like a despot, surrounded by darkness, one light over the table to save electricity, watching..." - Opening lines of The Gospel of Now Author Brandon Pitts, writing as Simon Occulis, was born in Los Angeles, California, grew up in Richland, Washington, then immigrated to Toronto, where he rose to become an influential force in the Gadist literary movement. Diaspora Dialogues cited him quickly as an "emerging voice" in the literary scene in Toronto. He has published three very successful books of poetry, Pressure to Sing, Tender in Age of Fury, and In the Company of Crows. Each book has receive
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