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Darryl Pinckney reads a section from his book "Black Deutschland" at the NYS Summer Writers Institute, Skidmore College, July 5, 2017.
Recorded Mar 8, 2016“Powerful” (The Independent) novelist, playwright, and essayist Darryl Pinckney explores issues of racial, sexual, and cultural identity ...
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Mar 25, 2022 · Newly sober and nostalgic for the Weimar days of Isherwood and Auden, Jed arrives to chase boys and to escape from what it means to be a black male in America. But history, both personal and political, can't be avoided with time or distance.
Feb 5, 2016 · Thus opens Darryl Pinckney’s haunting second novel, “Black Deutschland.” The “wrong book” in question is Christopher Isherwood’s “Berlin Stories,” the literary source for the musical...
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Jan 29, 2016 · In Darryl Pinckney’s “Black Deutschland,” a young, black gay man in flight from his troubles in America finds an unlikely refuge in 1980s-era Berlin.
Mar 10, 2016 · Jed Goodfinch, the narrator of Darryl Pinckney’s novel Black Deutschland, lives in precarious proximity to many hazards. His black gay identity and the dampening effects of alcohol addiction have led to a series of personal upheavals.
Jan 28, 2016 · Darryl Pinckney’s brittle and bloodless second novel, “Black Deutschland,” is about a young man, fresh out of rehab, who flees his hometown, Chicago, in the early 1980s for Berlin.
