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Sudetenland Tales

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or about black boys, which in this era of computer driven, complete lists is most all of them.

Try one, a tad light on the average gush, thereby making it less regurgitative.

Blue in Green by Wesley Brown

“It was amazing. Five stars. *****

What Brown does here is absolutely genius. Mind you, I am dispositionally inclined to love this novella; Miles, Miles Davis’ autobiography, is a book I’ve read countless times. That isn’t exaggeration; 25 years ago, it sat on a coffee table at my apartment, and I read at it variously while smoking or ignoring the TV. Combine this with the straight cover to cover reads I’ve done, and I know that book as well as any.

In ‘Blue in Green,’ Brown takes much of Davis’ dialogue from Miles’ (book; fuck you, GR — still not coding) verbatim and recontextualizes it into a lightly fictive retelling of the infamous ‘clubbing by the cop’ outside the club, A/K/A elsewhere as ‘using the darkie braining stick,’ at times leaded. Also, he works in the literal drop quote Davis says about Coltrane, one I’ve always adored; ‘I loved that motherfucka.’ That is sort of the equivalent of my Jerry Maguire — ‘You had me at motherfucka.’