I highly recommend Amiri Baraka’s experimental novel from the ’60s, The System of Dante’s Hell. Written under the poet’s name at that time, LeRoi Jones, Baraka gives a highly personal, somewhat autobiographical, account of how the experience of being a black man can be related in terms suggestive of Hell as developed by Dante in the Inferno.
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Where is my Dante?
Donald T…p has unfortunately been thrust at us by a non-stop entertainment industry that once masqueraded as the news. I would prefer to no longer hear the man’s name and intend to do my part to relegate his legacy to the most appropriate circle of Hell … now where is my Dante?
Noah’s Giant Boat
What makes Kentucky such a hotbed for religious theme parks and otherwise unscientific entertainment spectacles? First there was the infamous Creation Museum in Petersburg and now the forthcoming Ark Encounter theme park in nearby Williamstown.
Lindsay Tucker has written about the Ark Encounter in Newsweek Magazine, including a very interesting interview with Ken Ham representing the Young Earth Creationists. Here is the introduction to that piece:
A Celebration of Reading 