Love for Sale and Other Essays

Thompson_Essays_CoverMy new book, Love for Sale and Other Essays, has won the Autumn House Press nonfiction prize and is now available online! Click HERE to purchase your copy on amazon.com.

Love for Sale includes personal essays as well as musings on race and the general problem of being human. Best of all, it revels in the connections I find among the art forms I love: books, jazz, film, and painting. Explore them with me! (I did the cover art, too. Heh.)

My recommendation for reading this book: pour your favorite drink (I suggest straight bourbon); put some good, old jazz on your stereo or iPod; and lose yourself in ideas linking Zadie Smith to Clint Eastwood, Coleman Hawkins to Thomas Hardy, Charles Mingus to Robert Altman . . .

Enjoy!

 

 

February 1, 2013 • Posted in: Categories

8 Responses to “Love for Sale and Other Essays”

  1. Georges Laphroig - February 2, 2013

    An elegant cover, Cliff. In my country, such a book would be in every shop window as well as on every person’s nightstand. Alas, my country is a very small one…

  2. Cliff - February 2, 2013

    I’d like to live there. Thank you, Georges.

  3. mari - February 2, 2013

    Ordered mine. Can’t wait!!!

  4. Maggie Thompson - February 3, 2013

    So proud!

  5. Cliff - February 3, 2013

    Thank you guys!

  6. Josh - February 4, 2013

    Congrats, Cliff. I just ordered it and can’t wait to raed it.

    First year of law school I had a criminal law professor (from Wales) who taught a case involving an arrest of Coleman Hawkins in England. There did not seem to be much doctrinally interesting about the case but I think he used it mainly as a platform (excuse) to lecture the students about Coleman Hawkins and how poorly some of the best jazz musicians were treated by law enforcement over the decades.

  7. Cliff - February 4, 2013

    Josh — that’s a great story. And there is no shortage of other examples.

  8. Josh - February 8, 2013

    I got the facts of the case wrong, cliff (it has been mroe than 20 years since I read it). A jazz critic was prosecuted for “aiding and abetting” Hawkins’ apparently unlawful entry into the UK to accept a paying gig. He showed up at the airport to greet Hawkins, took pictures, went to the concert and wrote a review. And his conviction was apparently upheld on appeal.

    And, it seems that law students don’t need to learn how to outline the cases they read in first year law anymore, as there is an abundance of “casebriefs” for law students online. Here’s a link to a description of the decision.

    http://www.casebriefs.com/blog/law/criminal-law/criminal-law-keyed-to-dressler/liability-for-the-conduct-of-another/wilcox-v-jeffery/

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