The Question is Academic…..

A couple of weeks ago, I was contacted by one Sara Martin Alegre, a senior lecturer at the Universitat Autonoma in Barcelona, asking me if I’d mind answering a couple of questions about my novel Black Man (or Thirteen as it continues to be known in the US) for an academic paper she was preparing.  Black Man remains the book I’m proudest to have written, and with the upcoming Thin Air being set in the Black Man universe, Marsalis and his world have been much in my mind lately, so I ended up ra...