The Art of Fiction No. 210 (Interviewer) Issue no. 197 Summer 2011 “I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn’t black.”
Jean Toomer’s “Beehive” December 8th, 2011 Jean Toomer lived in Washington, D.C., but “Beehive” could be about any city, and for me it’s Manhattan. I live in Red Hook, so from the window I can see Lower Manhattan across the river. It’s massive and always in motion. At night, the bu…