This word ends the title of a novel about the alcoholic Manfred Banks, who calls Old Crow whiskey “Dirty Bird.” In a story whose title begins with this word, Granddaddy Cain kills a chicken hawk and destroys the film of two men who intrusively shoot a movie for the county’s food stamp campaign. The title of that story by Toni Cade Bambara states that this word “Ain’t No Mockin Bird.” This word ends the title of a story that closes by comparing a glass of Scotch to Isaiah’s “cup of trembling.” The narrator of that story titled for this word notes how his uncle was hit by a car full of drunk white men. This is the last word in the title of a story from Going to Meet the Man in which a math teacher recalls his daughter Grace’s death from polio and his brother’s arrest for selling heroin. For 10 points, what genre titles a James Baldwin story about the pianist Sonny? ■END■
ANSWER: blues [accept “Sonny’s Blues”; accept “Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird”; accept Dirty Bird Blues; reject “blue”] (Dirty Bird Blues is by Clarence Major.)
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