"Local Color" by Irvin S. Cobb is a fictional story from the early 1900s. It begins with writer Felix Looms, who wants to experience prison life so that he can write a more authentic novel on the subject. Looms changes his name to James Williams, commits a minor crime, and gets sent to Sing Sing prison. The story examines ideas of human character and societal institutions, specifically the prison system. Starting as a writer who feels like he is missing something, Looms decides to go to prison to get the real story. After he leaves, he plans a way to be arrested for stealing, which leads him to his sentence at Sing Sing. As he gets used to being in prison, Looms struggles with how much he is changing, from being a shy writer to someone who is now part of what he wanted to write about. These first parts show how different his life in prison is from his old life, and his struggles with the social and mental impacts of being locked up.
Local Color
By Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
An author vanishes into the penal system by committing a crime, hoping to find inspiration but discovering a transformation of self instead.
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About the AuthorIrvin Shrewsbury Cobb was an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky, who relocated to New York in 1904, living there for the remainder of his life. He wrote for the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, as the highest paid staff reporter in the United States.
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky, who relocated to New York in 1904, living there for the remainder of his life. He wrote for the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, as the highest paid staff reporter in the United States.
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