New York: Pantheon, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of "erudite, provocative, and iconoclastic essays, reviews, and interviews. . He writes about New York in the 1920s and about the beginnings of his career as a writer. . . he assesses the achievements of Duke Ellington and William Faulkner" and more in these essays. The Washington Post called him "our premier writer about jazz and blues, an incisive literary critic, and a social commentator of wide-ranging vision" and Toni Morrison stated "it is black music no less than literary criticism and historical analysis that gives his work its authenticity, its emotional vigor, and its tenacious hold on the intellect. SIGNED on the half title page. 195 pp. ISBN: 0-375421424.