Seepersad Naipaul, Amazing Scenes: Selected Journalism 1928-1953 Peter Clark

Seepersad Naipaul, Amazing Scenes: Selected Journalism 1928-1953 Peter ClarkAn unrivalled and very entertaining picture of the various and sometimes bizarre strands of Indian lives in colonial Trinidad. Seepersad Naipaul is a pioneer, combining insight with high style, however strange or mundane his subject. With contextualising essays by the editors, this collection of Seepersad Naipauls journalism is a treasure trove of Trinidads social history, particularly the making of the Indo Trinidadian community. It is also a

detached and engaged

He meets a figure called Emptiness who guides him on his way

I only wanted to make a mess

from blues to bluegrass to punk to jazz

Frank Ormsby

Although much criticised for this role

By morning

I was intrigued

The dialogue

homelessness

to lyricise the enduring

It mixes without discrimination among black