The Manly Art of Conversation
The GQ Mugging Inquest Kindle Edition by James LaFond
© 2016 James LaFond
JUN/21/16
The GQ Mugging Inquest is a study in masculine culture, specifically the art of bonding conversation between African-American men of the generation that came of age in the 1960’s and 70s.
From early 2013 through late 2014, the author, an urban violence researcher and novelist, visited one Northeast Baltimore bar where a handful of middle-aged men gathered to speak of sports, their work day, the current news, and of their youth. The GQ Mugging Inquest is his impression of their interesting, entertaining, and ultimately manly, art of conversation.
night city
the sunset saga complete
beasts of aryas
the greatest lie ever sold
wife—
sorcerer!
the fighting edge
the year the world took the z-pill
let the world fend for itself
z-pill forever
the first boxers
the greatest boxer
uncle satan
under the god of things
son of a lesser god
fanatic
time & cosmos
barbarism versus civilization
dark, distant futures
the lesser angels of our nature
blue eyed daughter of zeus
thriving in bad places
your trojan whorse
within leviathan’s craw
when you're food
solo boxing
fate
on combat
winter of a fighting life
songs of aryas
book of nightmares
broken dance
menthol rampage
fiction anthology one
triumph
orphan nation
all-power-fighting
on the overton railroad
america the brutal
masculine axis
the gods of boxing
advent america
sons of aryas
ranger?
taboo you
honor among men
cracker-boy
song of the secret gardener
logic of force
by the wine dark sea
predation
logic of steel
the combat space
into leviathan’s maw
hate