Late Admissions Confessions of a Black Conservative

We are playing a game, you and I, reader and author.

Late Admissions, Confessions of a Black Conservative.

I couldn't stop myself. Every page I turn, I say, no, Glenn, no, don't. Don't. Condoms, Glenn, condoms.

It seems to me that white racism can take us only so far in explaining these maladies.

I'll spend the rest of my life thinking about Linda, her death, and what I found in her office.

You just wrote the book Late Confessions.

Late Admissions.

Late Admissions. And then the subtitle is Confessions of a Black Conservative.

I read the book, dude. It was I knew it was going to be good. I because I've been watching you for a while. So I read the book and it really was, you know, like books just kind of like grab you and you can't put them down.

I'm not buttering you up. I swear to God, I read it and it was pretty great.

Glenn C. Loury's new book, Late Admissions, is unlike any economist memoir I have ever read. Most don't mention picking up streetwalkers or smoking crack in a faculty office at Harvard's Kennedy School or in an airplane at 30,000 feet or stealing a car or having sex on a beach in Israel with a mistress and attracting the attention of the audience.

It's all out there. It's a gambit. I mean, one strategy would have been let me craft my self presentation to make myself look better, to make myself look attractive. Let me try to win the reader over through artifice. I didn't want to take that route.

The strategy is let me tell the truth, the whole truth, the bitter, ugly truth, but also the beautiful truth, the noble and humane truth about my life. Let me lay it bare and rely upon the reader's I won't call it sympathy, but a perception of the humanity of this person who's talking about his life.

I fought the enemy within, but in truth, he was no intruder, no stranger. I cannot disavow his actions anymore than I would deny my own because his actions are my actions. I am that enemy within. The game goes on.

I think that we need to somehow get our minds around where we fit within this vast creation, this vast universe in which we inhabit. And I was a born again Christian and I fell away from it. And I try to talk about that in the book.