It is surprising, then, to see LaValle abandon the metropolis for its antithesis. Lovecraft’s racism-in his historical masterwork, The Ballad of Black Tom (2017), LaValle puts the reader right there, among his native streets, with the magic and monsters. Whether conjuring a version of his own youth in Slapboxing with Jesus (2002), navigating an enchanted version of the contemporary city in The Changeling (2018), or doing battle with eldritch creatures-and the legacy of H.P. In his genre-fluid fiction, Harlem, Queens, and the East River hustle and bustle with a character all of their own. Victor LaValle, for his part, is a New York City writer. Steinbeck and the Salinas Valley Stephen King and Maine Zadie Smith writes about London with a texture that few can match. Certain writers are synonymous with their own pocket of the world.
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