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The fugitivities / by McCarthy, Jesse,author.;
After a chance encounter with an ex-NBA player with his own regrets, recent college graduate Jonah Winters, unsure of what's next, heads to Brazil where he slowly forms an understanding of self, community, and freedom that is rarely afforded to young black men.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Novels.; African American young men; Americans; Identity (Psychology); Equality; Communities;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Who will pay reparations on my soul? : essays / by McCarthy, Jesse,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-302) and index.
Subjects: Race awareness.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Who will pay reparations on my soul? : essays / by McCarthy, Jesse,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A supremely talented young critic's essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap, herald the arrival of a major new voice in American letters. Ranging from Ta-Nehisi Coates's case for reparations to D'Angelo's simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, Jesse McCarthy's dazzling essays capture debates at the intersection of art, literature, and politics in the twenty-first century with virtuosic intensity. In "Notes on Trap," McCarthy borrows a conceit from Susan Sontag to dissect the significance of trap music in American society, while in "The Master's Tools," Velázquez becomes a lens through which to view Kehinde Wiley's paintings. Essays on John Edgar Wideman, Terrance Hayes, and Claudia Rankine survey the state of black letters. In "The Time of the Assassins," McCarthy, a black American raised in France, writes about returning to Paris after the Bataclan massacre and finding a nation in mourning but dangerously unchanged. Taken together, these essays portray a brilliant critic at work, making sense of our dislocated times while seeking to transform our understanding of race and art, identity and representation"--
Subjects: Essays.; Essays;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The fugitivities / by McCarthy, Jesse,author.;
"A singular and powerful debut novel about a young black American learning the difficulties of forming your own identity when society has already assigned you one. Like most recent college graduates, Jonah Winters is unsure of what's next. A young black American raised in France and living in New York City, he tries on a couple of careers only to find that nothing feels right. And as Jonah struggles to envision his future, he feels pressured by his friends and family to put the struggles of his communitybefore his search for self. But then a chance encounter with an ex-NBA player with his own regrets, inspires Jonah to take his life into his own hands. Deciding to leave the country entirely, he sets off for Brazil. And as he makes and breaks friendshipson the way, reflects on his past relationships, and learns to rely on himself, Jonah slowly forms an understanding of self, community, and freedom that is rarely afforded to young black men."--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Novels.; African American young men; Americans; Self; Identity (Psychology); Self-acceptance; Equality; Communities;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Minor notes. by Bennett, Joshua(Poet)nullEditornullauthor of introduction, etc.(DLC)no2014137012; McCarthy, Jesse,nullEditornullauthor of introduction, etc.(DLC)n 2020064002;
Includes bibliographical references.The first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past, and of the Black literary imagination, with a foreword by Tracy K. Smith A Penguin Classic Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy repeatedly found themselves struck by the number of exciting poets they came across in long-out-of-print collections and forgotten journals whose work has been neglected or entirely ignored, even by scholars of Black poetry. Minor Notes is an excavation initiative that recovers and curates archival materials from these understudied, though supremely gifted, African American poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and aims to bridge scholarly interest with the growing general audience who reads, writes, and circulates poetry within that tradition. As Minor Notes clarifies, the work of contemporary Black poets is perhaps best understood through the lens of a long-standing tradition of the poet as witness, as prophetic voice, as communal bard, and as scholar of the everyday and the miraculous. The poets featured in Volume 1 are George Moses Horton, Fenton Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, David Wadsworth Cannon Jr., Anne Spencer, and Angelina Weld Grimké.
Subjects: American poetry; African Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The best American short stories 2017 / by Anderson, Chad B.,author.(CARDINAL)676046; Boyle, T. Coraghessan,author.(CARDINAL)349307; Canty, Kevin,author.(CARDINAL)344785; Chakrabarti, Jai,author.(CARDINAL)675686; Cline, Emma,author.(CARDINAL)410726; Core, Leopoldine,1985-author.(CARDINAL)621950; Engel, Patricia,author.(CARDINAL)409524; Evans, Danielle,author.(CARDINAL)500233; Gordon, Mary,1949-author.(CARDINAL)345903; Groff, Lauren,author.(CARDINAL)354478; Hempel, Amy,author.(CARDINAL)740965; Holland, Noy,1960-author.(CARDINAL)379157; Larson, Sonya,1983-author.(CARDINAL)676051; Maazel, Fiona,1975-author.(CARDINAL)486045; McCarthy, Kyle,author.(CARDINAL)433636; Puchner, Eric,author.(CARDINAL)473521; Reva, Maria,author.(CARDINAL)676038; Shepard, Jim,author.(CARDINAL)351052; Sittenfeld, Curtis,author.(CARDINAL)466881; Walter, Jess,1965-author.(CARDINAL)392903; Wolitzer, Meg,editor.(CARDINAL)268123; Pitlor, Heidi,editor.(CARDINAL)477352;
Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Subjects: Short stories.; Short stories, American.; Short stories, Canadian.; American fiction; Canadian fiction; Short stories.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Nightwing. by Dixon, Chuck,1954-author.(CARDINAL)392807; Alquiza, Marlo,illustrator.(CARDINAL)459858; Burchett, Rick,illustrator.(CARDINAL)391729; Campanella, Robert,illustrator.(CARDINAL)424123; Delperdang, Jesse,illustrator.(CARDINAL)424124; Eliopoulos, Chris,letterer.(CARDINAL)345818; Johnson, Staz,illustrator.(CARDINAL)423234; Kesel, Karl,illustrator.(CARDINAL)355539; Leigh, Rob,illustrator.(CARDINAL)345842; Lowe, John(John Paul),illustrator.(CARDINAL)497331; Martin, Patrick(Comic book artist),cover artist.(CARDINAL)837173; McCarthy, Trevor,illustrator.(CARDINAL)600885; Mulvihill, Patricia,colourist.(CARDINAL)340011; Oakley, Bill,letterer.(CARDINAL)664474; Ramos, Rodney,illustrator.(CARDINAL)459860; Rosado, William,illustrator.(CARDINAL)640999; Schubert, Willie,letterer.(CARDINAL)364006; Stull, Rob,illustrator.(CARDINAL)804732; Wright, Gregory,colourist.(CARDINAL)410594; Digital Chameleon (Firm),illustrator.(CARDINAL)392014;
"In the final volume of Dixon's Nightwing run, Dick Grayson is emotionally and physically pushed to his breaking point. Dick Grayson searches within for what it is to be a hero in the aftermath of the Joker's latest reign of terror. Just before he can catch his breath, another shocking development threatens everything he has ever known, as Bruce Wayne is charged with murder! This volume also features appearances from the Flash, Blue Beetle and the rest of the Bat-Family."--
Subjects: Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels.; Superhero comics.; Young adult fiction.; Nightwing (Fictitious character); Grayson, Dick (Fictitious character); Vigilantes;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Rainbow milk : a novel / by Mendez, Paul,1982-author.;
"An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative following nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and sexual identities against the backdrop of his Jehovah's Witness upbringing"--
Subjects: Gay fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Jamaicans; Teenage boys; Gender identity; Sex workers; Gay men; Sexual minorities; Jehovah's Witnesses; Gender identity.; Gay men.; LGBTQ+ people.; Sexual minorities.;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 13
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Rainbow milk [large print] : a novel / by Mendez, Paul,1982-author.;
"An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative following nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and sexual identities against the backdrop of his Jehovah's Witness upbringing"--
Subjects: Large print books.; Gay fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Jamaicans; Teenage boys; Gender identity; Identity (Psychology); Sex workers; Gay men; Sexual minorities; Gender identity.; Gay men.; LGBTQ+ people.; Sexual minorities.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The end of a primitive / by Himes, Chester B.,1909-1984,author.(CARDINAL)128908;
"Two lives spiral into a chaotic, fatal pas de deux during a weekend of sex, alcohol and violence--from the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series. Years ago, Jesse Robinson and Kriss Cummings had a passionate weekend in Chicago, but they haven't seen each other since. Jesse's career as a novelist has been trending downward, and much of his time is spent drinking and brooding in his Harlem tenement. Kriss is divorced and infertile, disillusioned with her life and often seeking out intimacy with Black men. When they meet again, this time drinking excessively and sniping at each other, sexual frustration and resentment with their marginal lives mount as they hurtle toward a macabre climax. Taking place over the course of a bourbon-soaked weekend in 1952, The End of a Primitive tells the story of two absurd lives in McCarthy-era New York that are fated to end in destruction"--
Subjects: Noir fiction.; Novels.; Romans.; African American men; Divorced women; Man-woman relationships; Nineteen fifties;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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