The Hardest Reader to Please
with Winkfield Twyman Jr. & Jennifer Richmond
I spent years laboring over my memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative. But why? Who was I writing it for? In one sense, I had many audiences: my children and grandchildren, TGS readers and listeners, my close friends, the public at large, the historical record—the list could go on. But in another sense, my memoir had only one reader: me. I was the only one who would know if I was being honest, if I was telling the truth, no matter how unvarnished. That reader is hard to please, and he is a ruthless critic. But I think he’s satisfied, at least for now.
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I'm looking forward to listening to the audio book. I know it will be brutally honest. I admire your courage and humility. So important for us all to have those qualities to be a decent, real human being. So hard for most people to admit their flaws, their specific flaws. Thank you for showing us it can be done and should be done.
Late Admissions by Glenn Loury didn't change my opinion of Glenn. I have been watching and listening to Glenn for a long time. The fact that he matured from being a brilliant but immature git (Australian slang) into a brilliant and decent academic is socialogically pleasing but par for the course. We like Glenn Loury, probably all the more, because he is not an innocent and as far as we know he never called for the assassination of a POTUS. We think Glenn missed one fundamental
fault in his character. He suffers from a serious case of 'black guilt'. He desperately wants to change African-American culture, in the belief that it will redress the white/black academic imbalance. It won't. Glenn is brilliant and most of us are not, so what? We make lemonade with the lemons we inherit and that is life. Advice to Glenn: Praise the God of the Universe for your good fortune, stop naval gazing, follow the 'Desiderata' and strive to be happy.