![]() ![]() The book covers the period when Walker, 78, became a towering figure in the American cultural landscape, and precedes the accusations of antisemitism in recent years.įor decades, she chronicled her life - mostly in lined, spiral notebooks, their covers an assortment of bright primary colors - noting her thoughts on relationships, fame, family, freedom and politics. Into this fraught conversation comes a new book by Walker, “Gathering Blossoms Under Fire,” released last week by Simon & Schuster, a collection of her diaries spanning 1965 to 2000. Another is that we hold one another to account.” “One answer is that we cancel one another. “The question becomes, what do we do with one another when these moments happen,” Kaplan said. Carla Kaplan, a professor of American literature at Northeastern University who has written about Walker’s work, said she is one of many influential progressive figures who have made profoundly contentious statements. ![]()
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