Wu Ting
How would you interpret ‘Harlem papers’? A friend here seems to be in that kind of hash. He works in radio but has the looks for television—Puerto Rican, a Latin dreamboat type. With brains, even, this boy reads, and very impressed I know you, by the way. Up until last year he was a steaming romeo. Now he can’t get hired for anything. He was mixed up with the Communists ages ago, and it’s a gestanko scene for those cats now, people are even getting deported. It happened to a Negro lady I knew from the museum, a writer who reviews our shows for the Harlem papers. I didn’t even know she was foreign. Evidently her family came from Trinidad in the ’20s when she was a tiny tot. So one day this lady is typing her story on Negro artists, then the FBI knocks on her door and she’s cooling her heels on Ellis Island, next stop Trinidad. How would you interpret ‘Harlem papers’ in the context? Does it refer to newspapers popular with the black people living in Harlem, a neighborhood in New York? Thanks!
Apr 26, 2015 1:33 PM
Answers · 1
Yes. As you stated, "Harlem" is a district in New York City, where many black people live. And yes, "papers" is short for "newspapers." So the lady used to write for newspapers published in Harlem.
April 26, 2015
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