From staff reports
READY TO READ â Samantha Fouty, left, and Gena Kelley, student workers at West Liberty Universityâs Paul N. Elbin Library, stand near the books available for the African American Read-In. Plans call for video of students and staff reading selections by Black American authors to be posted on WLUâs Topper Station as part of the national event Feb. 25. Contributed
WEST LIBERTY– Through the years the staff at West Liberty University has strived to raise awareness and understanding of various cultures.
That mission will continue this month with the university’s participation in the African American Read-In, with all students and staff invited to submit a video of themselves reading selections from books, poetry and other writings by Black American authors for compilation in a video that will be shared on Feb. 25 through e-mail and WLU’s Topper Station website.
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Friday, the Thirteenth, a classic 1907 novel by the muckraker and stock manipulator Thomas Lawson, reminds us that telling stories can weaponize resentment.
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The great French novelist Gustave Flaubert offered some famous advice to writers: “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
Thomas Lawson evidently never got the memo. For a brief period, around the turn of the 20th century, he was one of the most controversial stockbrokers and muckrakers in America, publicizing Wall Street finagling even as he was participating in it. Lawson was one more thing as well: a novelist. His 1907 Wall Street melodrama
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