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Gary Phillips
Gary Phillips writes comics and prose, and toils in television as a story editor on Snowfall, about crack and the CIA in 1980s South Central where he grew up. His latest books is Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem, now available from Agora.
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How to Turn A Man into a Legend

Why I chose to take real-life Arctic explorer Matthew Henson, drop him in the middle of the Harlem Renaissance, and have him solve a murder.

February 25, 2020  By Gary Phillips
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Get Radcliff!: The Search for Black Pulp's Forgotten Author

Gary Phillips on the trail of Roosevelt Mallory, who helped revolutionize 1970s pulp fiction, then disappeared.

December 10, 2019  By Gary Phillips
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A Brief History of the Drug War In Pop Culture

From "Reefer Madness" to "Narcos," Measuring the Fictions of the Drug War Against Its Realities

April 18, 2019  By Gary Phillips
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