Michael A. Gonzales recounts the life lessons of a favorite auntie.
Michael Gonzales
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Wonderful Things: The Kid Creole and the Coconuts Story
Combining island sounds with stylish clothes and an unforgettable stage presence, one of New York City’s most original bands helped influence 1980s pop culture, and they never sacrificed their unclassifiable artistic vision.
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Beautiful Women, Ugly Scenes: On Novelist Nettie Jones and the Madness of ‘Fish Tales’
Edited by Toni Morrison, the 1983 novel ‘Fish Tales’ by Nettie Jones was supposed to set the literary world on fire. It didn’t.
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It’s Like That: The Makings of a Hip-Hop Writer
Hip-hop was a different kind of music that needed a different kind of writer to cover it. This is how Michael A. Gonzales came of age in a time when Black writers began breaking the white ceiling.
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Blackstars
Michael Gonzales reflects on the deaths of a dear friend, and a bookworm he idolized: David Bowie.
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Blackstars
Michael Gonzales reflects on the deaths of a dear friend, and a bookworm he idolized: David Bowie.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Story
Partners in Crime: The Life, Loves & Nuyorican Noir of Jerry Rodriguez
Michael Gonzales remembers a real friendship and the makings of a brutal crime novel.
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Partners in Crime: The Life, Loves & Nuyorican Noir of Jerry Rodriguez
Michael Gonzales remembers a real friendship and the makings of a brutal crime novel.
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Lyrical Ladies, Writing Women, and the Legend of Lauryn Hill
Joan Morgan’s “She Begat This” looks back at how Lauryn Hill crashed through hip-hop’s glass ceiling, while our critic looks at how the author and a cadre of black women writers did the same for hip-hop music journalism.