In this collection of essays and interviews, Ellison writes of literature and folklore, jazz and black culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. This volume includes the critically acclaimed works Shadow and Act (1964) and Going to the Territory (1986).

Modern Library, 1995.
ISBN: 9780679601760. 856 pp.
Preface by Saul Bellow.
Edited by John Callahan.
Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine jacket.