My Dinner with John and Rainier
Oh! What a wonderful night it was! Rainier is in town. He’s giving at paper at the National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference this afternoon, but last night he was free for dinner. Through the rain and lightning and terrible traffic, John and I drove into the center of Atlanta to meet him. I had made reservations at Nikolai’s Roof! Oh boy, oh boy! So, some background. Rainier and I were fellow graduate students in the ILA at Emory, and…