“With refreshing candor… Kushins’ energetic writing and his deep dive into Zevon’s life and music offers a rounded and complete portrait of an enigmatic musician.”
“…at once engrossing and illuminating …this stakes a strong claim to being the definitive book to emerge from the Egyptian revolution.”
Lisa Page writes that the book is “… a complete pleasure to read.”
“… it’s hard to read about Hurston and Hughes’ conflict without thinking about other examples of cultural beef, from hip-hop to sports.”
“…shows that, together, they changed the course of African-American literature, as the ‘first great American writers who implicitly claimed that their work was purely black.'”
“Taylor creates a perceptive portrait of the bizarre patron and of the Hurston-Hughes friendship. A fresh look at two important writers of the 1920s.”
“This is writing at its best and highly recommended for anyone interested in Egypt, modern or ancient.”
“…a fascinating and lively story of two iconoclastic writers…”
“Yuval Taylor digs deeply into the existing scholarship on both writers—and their times—to explore this unusual intimacy and the tragedy of its collapse. “
“An intriguing story about the most confounding and fascinating literary breakup in African American cultural history. “