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A collection of interviews, speeches, and essays by Langston Hughes.

Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes is a record of a remarkable man talking. In texts ranging from early interviews in the 1920s, when he was a busboy and scribbling out poems on hotel napkins, to major…

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A vibrant Hughes is presented here much as he often appeared in life: raising a glass of gin to salute dear friends.

With a remarkable cast of characters that includes James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and Zora Neale Hurston, these long-forgotten interviews and speeches of poet Langston Hughes bring us face-to-face with his extraordinary literary (and musical) contemporaries. 

Mischievous, controversial, and indefatigably affable, few literary figures ever combined such a diverse and rich inner spirit— all while writing some of the world’s most iconic poems.              

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