![]() Thurman had read so many books because he could read eleven lines at a time. But I am not capable of liking a book and then finding a million things wrong with it, too-as Thurman was capable of doing. I have no critical mind, so I usually either like a book or don’t. He was a strangely brilliant black boy, who had read everything, and whose critical mind could find something wrong with everything he read. Thurman had recently come from California to New York. ![]() ![]() Wallace Thurman wrote me that they were very bad stories, but better than any others they could find, so he published them. I asked Thurman what kind of magazine the Messenger was, and he said it reflected the policy of whoever paid off best at the time.Īnyway, the Messenger bought my first short stories. ![]() Schuyler’s editorials, à la Mencken, were the most interesting things in the magazine, verbal brickbats that said sometimes one thing, sometimes another, but always vigorously. Phillip Randolph, now President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Chandler Owen, and George S. Then it later became a kind of Negro society magazine and a plugger for Negro business, with photographs of prominent colored ladies and their nice homes in it. I believe it received a grant from the Garland Fund in its early days. It began by being very radical, racial, and socialistic, just after the war. ![]() Thurman was then managing editor of the Messenger, a Negro magazine that had a curious career. The summer of 1926, I lived in a rooming house on 137th Street, where Wallace Thurman and Harcourt Tynes also lived. ![]()
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