The novel and the film of 'The Color Purple' are both works of the imagination that make claim to historical truth. -Darryl Pinckney Imagination
'Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto' is a surprise and a fresh way of looking at Harlem, connecting the black district with the architecture of its historical past. -Darryl Pinckney Architecture
Novels set in distant places give us expectations not unlike those we have of travel writing, and often the distinctions are blurred, as in, say, the way the low life of Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward is depicted in John David Morley's recent 'Pictures from the Water Trade.' -Darryl Pinckney Travel
