In the 1970s, Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing in over a million dollars a day. So many heroin addicts were buying from him on 116th Street that he claimed the Transit Authority changed the bus routes to avoid them. He lived a glamorous life, hobnobbin…
"In American Gangster, Mark Jacobson's captivating account of the life of Frank Lucas (the basis for the forthcoming major motion picture) joins other tales of New York City from the past thirty years."--Publisher description
by Reed, John, Berlin, Isaiah, Birkerts, Sven, Als, Hilton, Rushdy, Ashraf H. A., Gladwell, Malcolm, Daum, Meghan, Solnit, Rebecca, Cronin, Justin, Atleework, Kendra, Angell, Roger, Jacobson, Mark, Kreider, Tim, Sedaris, David, Doerr, Anthony, Strayed, Cheryl, Briere, Tiffany, Jefferson, Margo, Kennicott, Philip, Lebo, Kate, Smith, Zadie, Sundberg, Kelly
Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2014 which were originally published in American periodicals.