Bibliothèque Aimé Césaire aux Anses d’Arlay, Martinique.

With NYC expecting temps 100+, today is perfect for reading Cahier d’un retour au pays Natal or Notebook of a Return to the Native Land by Césaire. I recommend Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith’s translation in their edition of The Collected Poetry from University of California, with the Wifredo Lam illustrations.  

Confidence Men.

I’ve always wanted to write a Confidence Man story for thugs and the women who love them.  As I once wrote regards Daniel Defoe, “One of street literature’s great subjects has always been the highlife player, the big-dicked, bejeweled raconteur/entrepreneur, no nonsense, old s’cool of hard-knocks connoisseur of cunny, the honky-tonk man with the plan […]

Summer reading.