The Slave Who Loved Caviar"The greatest and most fearless living writer turns his unerring eye to the art world and the fraught relationship between Jean Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol. The relationship between Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat is already one of the most iconic, intensely analyzed partnerships in the history of art. Ishmael Reed, perhaps America's greatest living writer, brings the same unsparing, deeply researched perspective as he did for the Archway

life in the United States took on all kinds of unfamiliar shapes

a music lover finds herself in a timeline both familiar and as wrong as can be

many of them rare or out-of-print ― until now

Feeling isolated from her supportive but ineffectual husband

told by the town’s few remaining inhabitants and uncovered in physical traces of the past left behind in the grand old building

Kaspar's autobiographical journal documents the everyday life of the artist

Conspiracy theories surged

I’m conscientious

These eleven stories offer readers the opportunity to delve deeper in this singular writer's work

and society

including Life Is Good and Good for You in New York (1957) and Tokyo (1964)

where all children are raised communally