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  2. Robert Ward (novelist) - Wikipedia

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    It was optioned, with Ward writing the screenplay. David Milch read the screenplay and offered Ward a job on Hill Street Blues. The Blues' episode "Oh You Kid" was based on Ward's pitch. Grace is a fictional biography of his grandmother, a Baltimore activist in the Civil Rights Movement. Four Kinds of Rain was a 2006 nominee for the Hammett Prize.

  3. Magick (Book 4) - Wikipedia

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    Magick (Book 4) Magick, Liber ABA, Book 4 is a book by 20th-century occultist Aleister Crowley. It is widely considered to be his magnum opus. [citation needed] Magick is a lengthy treatise on ceremonial magic (which he anachronistically refers to as 'magick'), synthesised from many sources including yoga, Hermeticism, medieval grimoires ...

  4. Moonchild (novel) - Wikipedia

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    823.912. LC Class. PR6005 .R7. Moonchild is a novel written by the British occultist Aleister Crowley in 1917. Its plot involves a magical war between a group of white magicians, led by Simon Iff, and a group of black magicians, over an unborn child. It was first published by Mandrake Press in 1929 and its recent edition is published by Weiser.

  5. If Beale Street Could Talk - Wikipedia

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    PZ4.B18 If3 PS3552.A45. If Beale Street Could Talk is a 1974 novel by American writer James Baldwin. His fifth novel (and 13th book overall), it is a love story set in Harlem in the early 1970s. [1][2] The title is a reference to the 1916 W.C. Handy blues song "Beale Street Blues", named after Beale Street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee.

  6. Going to Meet the Man - Wikipedia

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    Going to Meet the Man, [1] published in 1965, is a collection of eight short stories by American writer James Baldwin.The book, dedicated "for Beauford Delaney", covers many topics related to anti-Black racism in American society, as well as African-American–Jewish relations, childhood, the creative process, criminal justice, drug addiction, family relationships, lynching, sexuality, and ...

  7. Aleister Crowley bibliography - Wikipedia

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    Aleister Crowley (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English writer, not only on the topic of Thelema and magick, but also on philosophy, politics, and culture. He was a published poet and playwright and left behind many personal letters and daily journal entries.

  8. Poetry for the Beat Generation - Wikipedia

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    Allmusic. [1] Poetry for the Beat Generation is the debut album of American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac and was originally released in 1959. Initial performances of these poems were poorly received by an audience at the Village Vangard in 1957. However, Kerouac was so impressed with how the poems sounded when accompanied by Steve Allen 's ...

  9. Down in Houston - Wikipedia

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    Down in Houston: Bayou City Blues is a 2003 book written by Roger Wood, with photographs from James Fraher, published by the University of Texas Press; it is No. 8 of the Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture. Down in Houston discusses the African-American musical culture that was established in Houston, Texas ...