An essay entitled From Murderpan to Mattapan where I explore the crossover between my former life as a U.S. soldier and my then-current life as a writing teacher in the neighborhood that raised me: Mattapan
In Battle for Harlem, I write about the true story of Stephanie St. Clair, a depression-era numbers queen who stands alone against Dutch Schultz, the brutal gangster who wants to seize control of Harlem's lucrative numbers game.
A throwback from 2015 when I was a volunteer writer for The Good Men Project, The Struggle Is Real ... and Beautiful is about the mystery of failure operating as a seed of success.
Another pre-Creative Writing MFA piece from 2016, The X-Men Examination: Vol 1: Magneto/Malcolm X takes a close look at the historic speculation that Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr inspired, in some part, the Marvel character Professor Charles Xavier (aka Professor X).
How to Lose a Planet was a passion project, and my MFA thesis, which eventually, after a lot of work, resulted in a persistent compliment from agents:
"This is really good. I just can't sell it."
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