The greatest and most fearless living writer turns his unerring eye to the art world and the fraught relationship between Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol.

The relationship between Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat is already one of the most iconic, intensely analyzed partnerships in the history of art. Ishmael Reed, perhaps America’s greatest living writer, brings the same unsparing, deeply researched perspective as he did for the Archway Editions bestsellerThe Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda, for a captivating, illuminating final word on the famous duo.

Already the subject of controversy during its original 2021-2022 run at the Theater for the New City in the East Village, Archway Editions is proud to bring you the unabridged text ofThe Slave Who Loved Caviar, Ishmael Reed’s latest feat of research and drama, the tragedy as disturbingly real for today’s artists as it was in the 1980’s.

Ishmael Reedis the author of over twenty-five books includingMumbo Jumbo,Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down,Conjugating Hindi,Why No Confederate Statues in Mexicoand most recentlyWhy the Black Hole Sings the BluesandThe Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda. He is also a publisher, television producer, songwriter, radio and television commentator, lecturer, and has long been devoted to exploring an alternative black aesthetic: the trickster tradition, or Neo-Hoodooism. A regular contributor toCounterPunchand founder of the Before Columbus Foundation, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley for over thirty years, retiring in 2005. Reed is the only person to be nominated for the National Book Award in two categories in the same year.

• Publisher:Archway Editions (November 14, 2023)
• Language:English
• Paperback:108pages
• ISBN-10: 1648230165
• ISBN-13: 9781648230165
• Item Weight:8 ounces
• Dimensions:4.88 x 0.2 x 7 inches