Keenan Norris on Chi Boy

Written By Andrew Tonkovich

Chi Boy by Keenan Norris

 

February 28, 2023.This week on Bibliocracy Radio, KPFK’s weekly books show, I feature a multi-form book with portraits of a city, its citizens and writers, polemic, revelatory history and a family story.You’ll love my conversation with novelist, scholar and memoirist Keenan Norris, author of Chi Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings, a collective memoir of Black intellectual and cultural life, a consideration of the role of a city by way of the author’s father, Richard Wright and Barack Obama, the Great Migration, and the love of a son for his family.Thanks for supporting listener-supported Pacifica Radio KPFK 90.7 FM for all of Southern California.

 

 

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