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Part psychedelic trip, part hard boiled cop story, and part Blaxploitation cinema, Top of the Heap is fascinating film that both pushes the boundaries of crime cinema and offers a blistering take on urban race relations in early 1970s America. @Pulpcurry https://t.co/ejLjyUrWdu
Saturday Morning Matinee:
Top of the Heap (1972)
One of the weird flicks released during the #blaxploitation era
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Diane Oliver--a long forgotten short story writer whose brilliant work is ripe for rediscovery. More about her soon come on @ursastory with @DeeshaPhilyaw & @dawniewalton Links to her stories embedded in "The Short Stories & Too-Short Life of Diane Oliver" https://t.co/yxeWRHxueP
"He had large dark eyes like pits with a lot of shit floating at the bottom of them."
--from Brand New Dead by Derek Raymond
The inspiration behind "Dreamin' California" piece for @Hopkins_Review began with my former Baltimore City Paper editor Evan Serpick, the 1st person to publish my first-person Baltimore essays. I never got a chance to write the Northwestern High piece, but if I had... @Serps
"I Bet He Didn't Know," 2021, oil on canvas by Michon Sanders was used to illustrate "Really Cool," a short story by Michael A. Gonzales https://t.co/DtLdArJa8P @BlackArtistNews @ARTSdotBLACK @hyperallergic @artnet @nytimesarts @friezeofficial @Artforum @bookforum
Although Neal Adams was the biggest artist in comics in the '70s, he still managed to contribute these stunning covers to these two alternative comics from that era. https://t.co/AqaV9EDilx #NealAdams
In many of those barbarian paintings from yesteryear--I always wondered why the women were sometimes posed laying down. Who could just chill through all of that?
Dope: On George Cain, New York City, and Blueschild Baby https://t.co/TCZp8pzXzH via @CrimeReads #Harlem #NYC