Samuel Delany's Graphic Memoir Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale of NYC

Seven years before Fun Home, the great polymath Samuel Delany published a graphic memoir Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York about his longterm partnership with tall, white, Irish-American Dennis Ricketts who, when they met, was thirty-six, homeless, and selling old books from a shopping cart on Broadway. They've been together twenty-two years and last summer Delany rereleased the book with new commentary and an introduction by Alan Moore. No idea how everyone missed this treasure. The Strand did a talk with Delany and illustrator Mia Wolff in August, which you can watch here.

For more about the erotics of the city and the importance of a vibrant street life, get Delany's anti-gentrification book Times Square Red, Times Square Blue [Kindle].