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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.


High Life: The Carnegie Deli Murders

In 2001, Michael Gonzales visited the apartment of a hospitable actress and dealer. Soon it would be the site of a notorious murder.

November 5, 2020  By Michael Gonzales
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On The Art and Life of Jeffrey Catherine Jones

In 1970's New York City, Jones and a few artist friends reinvented what comic art could be.

September 17, 2020  By Michael Gonzales
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A New York State of Mind: The Unexpected Bonding Powers of Billy Joel's Melancholy Noir

Michael Gonzales finds a lifeline to a city, a soundtrack for grief, and a way of remembering his father.

July 17, 2020  By Michael Gonzales
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Bone, Blood & Bigots: On 'The Liberation of L.B. Jones'

A 1965 novel about racial injustice and police brutality in the Deep South was hailed by critics and made into a major movie. The story would haunt its author until the bitter end.

June 11, 2020  By Michael Gonzales
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Money Ain’t a Thang: 'Paid in Full' and the Culture That Rose out of New York's Crack Era

In the 1980s, the city was ravaged by a new drug. But a new culture, born of the same streets, was on the rise, too.

February 20, 2020  By Michael Gonzales
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Soul Assassin: The Brief Life and Death of Jerome Johnson

In 1971, somebody hired a young Black man to assassinate an Italian mafia boss. Five decades later, the mystery continues.

January 14, 2020  By Michael Gonzales
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Brooklyn Bad Boyz:
The Night I Was Shot

In 2011, Michael Gonzales was shot on his doorstep in Brooklyn. Unexpectedly, the bullet traced back to a legendary hip-hop feud.

November 13, 2019  By Michael Gonzales
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The Strange Story of Richard Wright’s Lost Crime Novel, Savage Holiday

In 1954, at the height of his fame, Wright published a thriller with a white psychotic hero. The literary world did not approve.

October 23, 2019  By Michael Gonzales
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A Brief History of the Heroes of Black Pulp

Finding inspiration and representation in the slam-bang cool of Black Pulp, past & present.

June 27, 2019  By Michael Gonzales
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The Groundbreaking Art of
Jim Steranko

How a maverick artist's dark vision transformed the comics world and ushered in the graphic novel

May 16, 2019  By Michael Gonzales
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