Calvin Wilson is film critic at St. Louis Post-Dispatch and host of the jazz program, “Somethin’ Else,” on the Radio Arts Foundation classical station. His short story “Attrition” was included in the anthology St. Louis Noir, edited by Scott Phillips.
The Wire would not necessarily be described as a series about race. But that was the beauty of it.
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The first woman to paint the official portrait of a U.S. president, Greta Kempton also painted Cabinet officials, governors, senators, the head of the Atomic Energy Commission, two Postmasters General, a Supreme Court justice, several university presidents, and a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. But what would have happened if she had painted a self-portrait?