Donald Goines becomes a pop-culture star half a century after his violent death
Detroit Free Press, January 2, 2022: Donald Goines becomes a pop-culture star half a century after his violent death
“In the early 1970s, when Donald Goines was churning out his stark novels about life among Detroit gangsters, drug addicts and sex workers, the books had amateurish graphics, were printed on cheap paper and wound up for sale at bus stations and party stores because many bookstores wouldn’t carry them.
“Almost a half-century after Goines’ death — in grim circumstances like a scene from one of his books — a New York publishing house is reissuing the novels with bold graphics, and readers can find them at Barnes & Noble and local libraries. Goines has become a pop-culture star whose writing is both studied in university English classes and echoed in the lyrics of rap songs.”
Additional reading:
CrimeReads, May 22, 2019: Donald Goines and the Birth of Black Pulp Fiction
Medium, December 15, 2019: Donald Goines: Addict, Author, and Hip-Hop Influencer
Books by Donald Goines on bookshop.org
