. >> this is a great year for adam bradley. not only do we have this book from his hand but he will soon publish with yale press ellison's progress. we thank you for that. he is working on a book that doesn't quite have a title yet but look for that. she had this volume in front of us. and he is about to finish the second. [talking over each other] and i conclude this is a great year for ellison. we thank you for making that possible. >> john callahan is the literary executor of ralph ellison's estate and a humanities professor at lewis and clark college. adam bradley is the author of the soon-to-be published ellison in progress. he is an associate english professor a the university of colorado. for more information visit randomhouse.com/modernlibrary. >> literally a man from outside. the translator in the book has difficulty pronouncing my name. i went there shortly after september 11th in november of 2001. i was working at the kansas city star which is part of a large newspaper chain and editors needed people to go overseas a

i read invisible man when i was in college, actually the same age as -- i was the same age as adam bradley would be when he read "invisible man" and when i showed him the boxes from the second novel, the boxes of analyst's computer printouts, and asked him if he would help me with this project in 1994. but i had wanted to write about ellison's work for a long time. and finally, in 1977, i wrote an essay on ellison, called "the historical frequencies of ralph waldseemuller dough ellison" and in this piece, i try to make the case that ellison's essays, and at that time, many others, some of them weren't published at all, and many of the most compelling essays hadn't made it into "shadow and act." ralph says, -- he used to say, society and morality in a novel, tell it like it is, baby, really, unbelievably superb in original essays, were rejected for inclusion in "shadow and act" if you can believe it and i tracked these down and tried to make the case that "invisible man" his essays rather not only provided a way to read "invisible man" but also more broadly provided a way to read american l

bradley with a hit to right field. that bottom of the seventh jack wilson doubled to left field. adamd of him, that makes it 3-1. aardsma comes on to earn the save. so vargas gets the win. he is now 2-1. aardsma saved number six. he is 6 out of 6 in save opportunities. and david hernandez, the tough luck loss, he is now 0-3. david hernandez has gone 12 consecutive starts without a loss. they got him a run, they got him one run. they hadn't scored for david hernandez since september the 25th of last year at cleveland. that was the second to last start. it was 15 and one third scoreless innings while he was in the game. that was all they got for him, one run. >> you have to give hernandez a little credit here because it's very tough to pitch in ball games when you get no support at all. you can't make a mistake which eventually did in the seventh inning. too much pressure for a rookie. a veteran guy can work through these kinds of things. a rookie who is looking for something to happen good and positive, he has not been able to get it since sent of last year. >> david hernandez gave his