The last agent I met with was a white woman my age. We showed up wearing the same blazer, and after we spent a few minutes acknowledging that fact I found it was impossible to talk about my literary aspirations without feeling self-conscious. She told me she thought I could market my book in the style of Alain de Botton’s The Architecture of... See more

After dinner, Andy and I stopped by a bookstore that was next to St. Mark’s Comedy Club. Unorganized, lots of underground poetry, ended up getting “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” and a preface to Plato. I asked the guy if they had any Ed Sanders (his Tales of Beatnick Glory shaped my sense of history of this neighborhood). They had that same book, signed,

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what is afropsychedelia? it’s the forward-thinking, mind-bending, likely possibly substance-induced, oft-hypnagogic, sometimes hallucinogenic sound of it all. it’s rock, funk, soul, R&B, jazz, and everything in between — it’s a perpetual groove that transcends genres and generations. this is my primary frequency of choice; if you get it, you get

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