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Burn, Killer, Burn!
Paul Crump · 1962 · 404 pages
My mind shouted her name with the positive certainty that held not the slightest need for additional confirmation, even though I sat with my eyes closed and my back to the door. Her presence permeated the musty atmosphere in the courtroom of jam-packed, sweat-oozing, ghoulish spectators with a fresh, cool fragrance. Turning slowly, in deference to the pain of my unhealed wounds, I faced her.
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James Baldwin
“Paul Crump is one of the few people alive – repeat: alive – for whom I have what can only be called an uncompromising respect. And he is a real writer. He has understood what he has endured, and, like a great blues singer, tells us of his sorrow and at the same time, stands outside it.”↗