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Nightstand: Rebecca Walker
By Piper Castillo, Times Staff Writer
Published November 18, 2007
Before Rebecca Walker, daughter of writer and feminist Alice Walker (The Color Purple), appeared at Eckerd College recently, we talked with her by phone, from the Don CeSar. Walker is the author of Black, White & Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self and Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood, After a Lifetime of Ambivalence.
What is on your nightstand?
Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana and White Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave by Benita Roth, Basic Black by Cathie Black and My Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-Neel. Do you separate your reading time between work and pleasure?
It's mixed. I'm constantly rotating and digesting new material for both research and pleasure. . . . There are certain books that continue to mean a lot to me, that have inspired me and my work. William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying ignited my desire to become a writer, and Marguerite Duras' The Lover and James Baldwin's Another Country meant a lot to me, early on. Piper Castillo, Times staff writer, can be reached at pcastillo@sptimes.com.
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