![]() ![]() The class was filled mostly with young white women who spoke about Octavia Butler, Ann Petry, Nella Larsen, and Toni Morrison with a commanding authority that I could never place. This was the early 1990s and the seminar on African-American women writers was led by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The book was out of print and available only in limited quantities, so the class trekked over to the shop to purchase the packet. Gwendolyn Brooks’s first (and only) novel, Maud Martha, came to me as a stack of photocopied pages from a local shop in Harvard Square. The noir atmospherics are as thick as winter fog and parts of the novel read like a shy love letter to Alfred Hitchcock.”īelow, Muñoz recounts how he first encountered Gwendolyn Brooks’s novel Maud Martha in a class at Harvard. What You See in the Dark made me tense, and I mean tense. What You See in the Dark by Manuel Muñoz (Algonquin Books, 2011)Īmong the early reviewers for Muñoz’s new novel is NPR senior editor Luis Clemens, who writes: “This book knotted my stomach. ![]() ![]() Manuel Muñoz, whose debut novel, What You See in the Dark, was just published, joins our continuing series of guest blog posts by writers of fiction, history, essays, and poetry. “Nobody Knows My Name”: Manuel Muñoz on Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha ![]()
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