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Michael Gonzales

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.


Wicked Ways: Da Deuce in the 1980s

Michael Gonzales on the lights & grime of Times Square as it was.

May 25, 2023  By Michael Gonzales
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Memphis Man: Cadillac Riding With Isaac Hayes

Michael Gonzales remembers his trip around Memphis with the soul legend.

May 17, 2023  By Michael Gonzales
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City of Poe: Baltimore, 1979

Michael Gonzales on that first, uncanny encounter with his new home city.

March 30, 2023  By Michael Gonzales
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The Boogeyman Buildings

Michael Gonzales on New York City in the dark days and the haunting legacy of two uptown buildings.

February 23, 2023  By Michael Gonzales
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Black Star: The Life and Work of Octavia Butler

Michael Gonzales on a giant of American literature.

December 13, 2022  By Michael Gonzales
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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.

November 17, 2022  By Michael Gonzales
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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.

October 14, 2022  By Michael Gonzales
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Goodbye Brooklyn: Streets of No Return

Michael Gonzales on the borough—and the community—that shaped his life and art.

September 16, 2022  By Michael Gonzales
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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.

August 19, 2022  By Michael Gonzales
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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."

June 23, 2022  By Michael Gonzales
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