How Writing for The Stranger Made Me Blacker

How Writing for The Stranger Made Me Blackerby Charles MudedeI have two former Village Voicewriters to thank for planting in my young mind the idea that writing for a weekly would fulfill my literary ambitions. One is Greg Tate and the other is Joe Wood. The former recently published a collection of writings, Flyboy 2, and is still very much active; the latter went missing on Mount Rainier in 1999 and his body was never found. In fact, if Wood hadn’t vanished, I most likely would have move