Ralph Ellison is one of America's great writers of the 20th c., and his novel, Invisible Man, is considered to be a modern classic. Ellison also wrote one of the great American essays of the 20th c., "The Little Man at Chehaw Station: The American Artist and his Audience." In this week's episode of "Straight Ahead," hosts Greg Thomas and Aryeh Tepper explore Ellison's essay for what Ellison himself understood to be the purpose of art: equipment for life. Following the trail of Ellison's three anecdotes - from the Little Man behind the stove at Alabama's Chehaw Train Station who knows the tradition, to the Tall Man on Riverside Drive who reflects America's unprecedented combinations, to the foul-mouthed workingmen arguing over who's the best soprano at the Metropolitan Opera - the essay maps the character of American culture and the challenges that American artists and audiences face in transmuting America's constant, dynamic flux into a coherent and life-giving whole.
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