This book was written by fellow Columbia alum, Darryl Pinckney, who last year gave a talk at the NYPL on 42nd Street in NYC (near my former place of work).
Black Deutschland
by Darryl Pinckney
*The New York Times Book Review*
https://t.co/ot3mPGtDqH
Its the early 1980s, and Jed, a young man from Chicago with an addiction problem, is trying to flee his hometown’s suffocating racism and homophobia by expatriating himself to Berlin, a city he hopes will accept him and his desires as it did Christopher Isherwood’s (Berlin Stories) a half-century earlier.
The Mad Man: Or, The Mysteries of Manhattan
by Samuel R. Delany
520 pages
$39.99
During the day Marr works on his graduate thesis—an analysis of the work of a brilliant 1970s philosopher who died mysteriously in a bar in Hell’s Kitchen. As his research and his sex life begin to converge, Marr senses that if AIDS doesn’t get him, something darker will.
<em>The Mad Man</em>, which the author dubbed a “pornotopic fantasy,” is more than a powerful work of philosophical erotica; it is a snapshot of a vanished moment in New York City’s history, when fear and lust commingled in a single powerful force.