Purple reign
Aubin Wise, Lovely Huffman, and the color purple. Photos: Glenn Perry PhotographyI confess I've always had mixed feelings about Alice Walker's The Color Purple, and its trajectory through the pop firmament. I wasn't a huge fan of the brutally honest but somewhat clumsy novel (I never got through it), although at the time I was certainly an admirer of its author, who was if not a great writer then surely a commit…