Michael A. Gonzales

A few years before Ethan Hawke was nominated for an Academy Award for the wonderful Blue Moon I wrote about his slacker years living in the Chelsea Hotel in the '90s. #EthanHawke #AcademyAwards #BlueMoon #ChelseaHotel @opensecretsmag.bsky.social

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A few years before Ethan Hawke was nominated for an Academy Award for the wonderful Blue Moon I wrote about his slacker years living in the Chelsea Hotel in the '90s. #EthanHawke #AcademyAwards #BlueMoon #ChelseaHotel @opensecretsmag.bsky.social

Windows Her smile was as pleasing to me as a blue banana boat from the ice cream man in August,

Growing-up in Harlem in the 1970s, I discovered the first love of my life living across the way.
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Hopefully Hell does exist.

Damn. I might have to use that for a future crime story. I remember that walk between Amsterdam and Broadway being particularly rough. In the early '90s I lived on 90th Street and Amsterdam, and was passing literal crack smokers every night.

Oh yeah...I remember the first wave of change very well. It was rough around there for years before that.

I read that they were going to turn it into a residential building. A few back it seems it was being used as a welfare hotel. That's crazy to me.

I found this picture of my mom and godfather taken a few years before I was born. They were at the Waldorf-Astoria to see a Lena Horne performance in 1960. Years later I wrote an essay about him for @oldstermag.bsky.social

She doesn't get enough credit, especially when it comes to her roll in trip-hop and helping Massive in their early years. I saw a documentary years back and if I recall correctly, a young Nenah was arguing with some club owner trying to get Don paid. She was feisty.

I haven't read it yet, but I'm looking forward to it.

For me it was literally, "Hello. Nice to meet you. I love Raw Like Sushi." And it was over. LOL. 35 years later I'm still thinking about it.

The only time I ever met Cherry was in 1991 at a Giant Step party. She was hanging out with Guru, who introduced us. Man, I was so in love. LOL

What grandma called "pneumonia weather."

Tell it...and her cover of "Trouble Man" is so dope.

Windows Her smile was as pleasing to me as a blue banana boat from the ice cream man in August,

Growing-up in Harlem in the 1970s, I discovered the first love of my life living across the way.
--Windows mrbellersneighborhood.com/2024/08/wind...

Shoot Your Shot: An Interview With Alice Arnold
--by Michael A. Gonzales for This Woman’s Work | Winter 2025-26 Issue
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This Woman’s Work | Winter 2025-26 Issue asterixjournal.com/this-womans-...
This Woman's Work is a one-shot hip-hop journal dedicated to women in rap and reggaeton.

This Woman’s Work | Winter 2025-26 Issue asterixjournal.com/this-womans-...
This Woman's Work is a one-shot hip-hop journal dedicated to women in rap and reggaeton.

Shoot Your Shot: An Interview With Alice Arnold
--by Michael A. Gonzales for This Woman’s Work | Winter 2025-26 Issue
asterixjournal.com/shoot-your-s...

I Want You Back On First Love and Michael Jackson

I had a dream about Michael Jackson. He was performing at a concert in Cali when he ran off of the stage, found me in the crowd and put a weird blue disc in my pocket. After he returned to the stage an audience member informed me that MJ gave the disc to people that he wanted to bring good luck to.

#ReadABook

I think writers are very confident they will succeed. I think it's natural in writers to believe their work will be accepted/published. That's part of what it takes to be a writer, similar to actors believing against the odds they will land paying acting jobs.

Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones

I’d kill it on an Indy book…

The entire print run of classic SF punk magazine ‘Damage’ is now online! Ryan Richardson is one of the United States’ foremost collectors, archivists, and dealers of punk rock records and ephemera, as well as being the Internet saint who created free online archives of Sta...

The entire print run of classic SF punk magazine ‘Damage’ is now online!
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'Ryan Richardson is one of the US’ foremost collectors, archivists, & dealers of punk rock records & ephemera, as well as being the Internet saint who created this free online archive.'

Published by @oldstermag.bsky.social which was featured in today's @nytimes.com

Dying Cities: On the Lone Book of ‘Lost’ Novelist Elaine Perry “The city is strong in the memory, no matter how much it decays and gives way to the sea.” –Elaine Perry, 1990  Since I’ve started writing about out-of-print and “lost” Black authors, I occasionall…

Yesterday was the start of Women's History Month and I wanted to repost this article I wrote two years back about author Elaine Perry, who wrote one brilliant book in 1990 and stepped away from publishing completely. Yesterday I discovered that she died last month from cancer. @kncbooks.bsky.social

Thank you Jack. She's still here...88 years old, but still a beauty.

This 1959 picture of my mom is from her Harlem modeling days. As a kid I used to see this photo on mom's dresser and it became one of my visual aids when writing the short "Frankie Five Hundred" for @evergreenreview.bsky.social evergreenreview.com/read/frankie...