[wtc911]

I read Ellison but couldn't get past the noble suffering. Chester Himes was to my mind a better window into that part of our society at that time.

[lentulusgracchus]

I'm unfamiliar with Chester Himes. Ellison was required reading in many places in the 60's. I read him in 1969, when I was picking up my one last needed English credit which my advisor had overlooked before completing my degree requirements. That one last semester put me in the Navy not the Army, and sent me to the Atlantic Fleet instead of Vietnam, where the shriveled-up old man-hater down at the Draft Board fully intended I should go.