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prompted_ink's review against another edition
4.0
Aisha Sabatini Sloan combines both the academic essay within a memoir, revealing racial issues from the personal to the world-at-large. As someone who also experimented with different structures for a senior seminar assignment, I admire the way Sloan meshes these forms together, smoothing out the transitions from her personal narrative to citing secondary research. At some points, the academic research supersedes the personal narrative or the changes between the two forms is not smooth enough to make the reader wonder what is really going on.
The Fluency of Light serves as a good example of how one can mesh the academic and the creative that only seem to be two opposing "schools of thought".
The Fluency of Light serves as a good example of how one can mesh the academic and the creative that only seem to be two opposing "schools of thought".
ostrowk's review against another edition
Absolutely loved both "Birth of the Cool" and "White Space," but most of Sloan's other essays felt to me overtaxed by their many references. I like a braided essay, but maybe I have a low tolerance for just how many braids.
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