Melvin Backman
The Ink in the Inkwell | Literature of the Black Resort Town
Melvin Backman
In the third chapter of Vinson Cunningham’s debut novel, Great Expectations, David Hammond finds himself on Martha’s Vineyard, fundraising among friendly wallets vacationing on-island. He is an aide to an unnamed Barack Obama stand-in (“the Senator”) who is campaigning for the 2008 Democratic nomination for president. As Karen Cox, the bundler David is boarding with, counts out sixty thousand dollars in checks — “twice my salary,” he notes — she...
