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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.
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."
Dope: On George Cain, New York City, and Blueschild Baby
Michael Gonzales on the man and the life behind a literary phenomenon in 1970 New York.
The Story Behind a New Book Pushing the Conversation About The Wire Into New Territory
Ronda Racha Penrice and Michael Gonzales discuss the show's legacy and the new book, Cracking the Wire During Black Lives Matter
B-More or B-Less: Meditations on The Wire and Baltimore
Michael A. Gonzales on a long, complex relationship with The Wire and its depictions of Black life in Baltimore.
Pulp Penciller: The Noir Comics of Marshall Rogers
In the 1970s, Rogers and other upstart artists revolutionized the world of comics, bringing a new, noir sensibility.
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