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Michael Gonzales
Harlem native Michael A. Gonzales is a cultural critic, short story scribe and essayist who has written for The Paris Review, The Village Voice, Wax Poetics, The Wire UK, Maggot Brain and Pitchfork. His fiction has appeared in Under the Thumb: Stories of Police Oppression edited by S.A. Cosby, Taint Taint Taint, Dead-End Jobs: A Hit Man Anthology edited by Andrew J. Rausch, Black Pulp edited by Gary Phillips and The Root. Upcoming stories will appear in The Book of Extraordinary Femme Fatale Stories edited by Maxim Jakubowski, Get Up Offa That Thing: Crime Fiction Inspired by James Brown edited by Gary Phillips, Killens Review of Arts & Letters and Obsidian Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora.
Memphis Man: Cadillac Riding With Isaac Hayes
Michael Gonzales remembers his trip around Memphis with the soul legend.
City of Poe: Baltimore, 1979
Michael Gonzales on that first, uncanny encounter with his new home city.
The Boogeyman Buildings
Michael Gonzales on New York City in the dark days and the haunting legacy of two uptown buildings.
Trouble Was His Business: 50 Years of Trouble Man
Revisiting a movie that told the story of a fixer in South Central LA, with a Marvin Gaye score that changed the game.
Rock & Roll Apocalypse: 'Wild in the Streets'
A 1968 movie about psychedelic politics and killing the old still has the power to disturb, decades later.
Goodbye Brooklyn: Streets of No Return
Michael Gonzales on the borough—and the community—that shaped his life and art.
Bad Mutha: On the Life and Art of Isaac Hayes
How the composer, actor, and Black Moses soul man put his indelible stamp on the culture.
Triggered: Gun Crazy in America
Michael Gonzales: "As a kid coming of age in 1970s New York City, I grew-up in a cultural environment that celebrated guns and encouraged young boys to daydream about owning one."
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