Over the past couple of weeks Open Road has been celebrating the life and work of novelist Hubert Selby, Jr. with a series of critical essays. Our final installment in the symposium comes from author M.G. Stephens. This essay provides a moving and lucid portrait of the New York literary world that influenced Selby in his early years.
M.G. Stephens has published eighteen books, including the novel The Brooklyn Book of the Dead, which Roddy Doyle recently called "a great, great book." His nonfiction books include Green Dreams which Joyce Carol Oates picked as one of the notable American nonfiction ...