I sat on the window sill at The Sheraton Hotel that was located by LAX. The sun was about to set and I watched the planes take off below the beautiful light pink sky—one by one. I counted the seconds…

This is quite a bit over count, and I feel as if it leans too heavily into my own experience (overly expository, not enough analysis). I’d love notes on what can go. I was inspired, too, by this week’s reading…

Go Ahead in the Rain was absolutely meant for savoring, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. The lyricism and poetry that ran throughout was a key aspect of the storytelling itself. His voice blended biography, memoir, and cultural criticism…

This book is structurally something of an epic poem, a hip-hop Odyssey (it’s corny, but stick with me). We move through different eras, an amassing of characters, all through a lyrical journey. To stick with a Greek structure, Abdurraqib operates…

Preface Draft – It still feels a bit like rambling, but this is what I have. “You should write a book!” “I will.” I answer politely, always, thinking, “I am”. Much of my life is scrolled in journals beginning in…

Preface to the preface: I’m trying to integrate the Klezmer / Yiddish re-revival of the early 90s into the more well trod ground of the East Village counter-culture, the arts and activism scene of that era – they were totally…

Reading Response of “Go Ahead in the Rain” I was not familiar with hip hop and rap culture.  This is an educational experience for me. Abdurraqib has a particular way to write a memoir.  He wrote the memoir in the…

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“I know that there is no way in which K’s death would not have been very sad for you, but the fact that it was so sudden, so unexpected, must make it very difficult to assimilate in a different way.…

Possible working titles (for the whole comic – help me choose, and please please suggest ideas!) You pronounce the quotes Ordinary / Extraordinary A gay trade unionist’s guide to Geneva or to cruising sites across the 20th Century? Thanks! *…