Elon Green

1 month ago | bookreporter.com | Elon Green

In 1983, Michael Stewart was just another kid who came to New York City to pursue a dream. He was an artist, a DJ and a model, enjoying the downtown club scene and working hard at his jobs. Michael wanted to make a name for himself --- and tragically he did just that by way of a brutal beating by NYC Transit Authority police after being caught tagging a subway wall at 14th Street.

1 month ago | crimereads.com | Elon Green

In the early years of the 1980s, the East Village, a neighborhood on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, had a population of roughly sixty thousand. But the worlds of art, music, and literature operating east of the Bowery and Third, south of Fourteenth, and north of Houston felt far smaller. The neighborhood of low buildings and crooked streets, a place so hollowed out and reduced to rubble that it resembled postwar Vienna, was intimate.

1 month ago | vulture.com | Elon Green

Why did the novelist’s only staged drama disappear for so long? Lorraine Toussaint (center) with Joseph C. Phillips (center right). Lorraine Toussaint (center) with Joseph C. Phillips (center right). The soirée was at the Steuben Club in Albany, a half-hour before the premiere. The gray-haired star of the evening had not been expected to make an appearance.

1 month ago | vanityfair.com | Elon Green

At twenty-five years old, Michael Stewart was a young Black aspiring artist, deejay, and model, looking to make a name for himself in the vibrant downtown art scene of early 1980’s New York City. On September 15, 1983, witnesses say they saw him being brutally beaten by New York City Transit Authority police for allegedly tagging a 14th Street subway station wall. Witnesses reported officers beating him with billy clubs and choking him with a nightstick.

Sep 11, 2024 | celadonbooks.com | Elon Green

The first comprehensive book about Michael Stewart, the young Black artist and model who was the victim of a fatal assault by police in 1983, from Elon Green, the Edgar Award-winning author of Last Call. At twenty-five years old, Michael Stewart was a young Black aspiring artist, deejay, and model, looking to make a name for himself in the vibrant downtown art scene of the early 1980’s New York City.