Old School Noir by Marc Gerald

Posted by Daniel on October 20, 2007 · Leave a Comment

This article was originally published by Salon on March 7, 1997 In 1937, Chester Himes completed the first draft of his first, and arguably most provocative, novel, a hard-hitting account of homosexual love amid the madness, flames and riots of prison life. Himes himself would say of the work, “the protagonist of my prison story [...]