Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop

Sam V. H. Reese is a jazz and literary critic and short story writer. The author of The Short Story in Midcentury America (2017, winner of the Arthur Miller Center First Book Award), and Blue Notes: Jazz, Literature, and Loneliness (2019), along with two collections of short fiction, he has most recently edited the notebooks of Sonny Rollins, with a critical introduction, for NYRB (2024).

Sam V. H. Reese

Measured Longings and Layered Stories: On Jonathan Leal’s “Dreams in Double Time”

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

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"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie

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Sam V. H. Reese is a jazz and literary critic and short story writer. The author of The Short Story in Midcentury America (2017, winner of the Arthur Miller Center First Book Award), and Blue Notes: Jazz, Literature, and Loneliness (2019), along with two collections of short fiction, he has most recently edited the notebooks of Sonny Rollins, with a critical introduction, for NYRB (2024).

Sam V. H. Reese

Articles

Measured Longings and Layered Stories: On Jonathan Leal’s “Dreams in Double Time”