MML Lewis

Morehouse College, Fordham University School of Law

writer

Alpha Phi Alpha

books, movies, music, art, chess, comics, hiphop, big booties

Song of Solomon, Midnight's Children, The Dark Knight Returns, The Science of Mind, Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don't Have Bruises

Minority Report, Requiem for a Dream, Stealing Beauty, Before Sunrise, The Virgin Suicides, Putney Swope, Basquiat, most Kubrick and Woody Allen....

Coldplay, Miles Davis, Radiohead, Nas, Madonna, Prince, Bjork, Theolonius Monk, Kanye West, Nirvana, Sly and the Family Stone, the Beatles (I know, I know), Common, Billie Holiday, Jimi Hendrix....

TV is for dummies. Okay, Desperate Housewives

Sagittarius

god, do i have to? the B-boy bohemian icon. bronx native by way of jupiter. sagittarian like hendrix and spielberg, bruce lee and mos def. also, expatriate to paris and author of Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don't Have Bruises.

or, in the alternative:

Miles Marshall Lewis is a recognized pop culture critic, essayist, literary editor, fiction writer, and music journalist, with a B.A. degree in sociology from Morehouse College. He is the author of the essay collection Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Dont Have Bruises, concerning coming of age in the Bronx under the aegis of hip-hop culture at its genesis. He is also the series editor and founder of Bronx Biannual, an urbane urban literary journal of fiction and essays, and author of Theres a Riot Goin On, a book on the making of the seminal 1971 Sly and the Family Stone album of the same name.

During the past twelve years, he has written for The Nation, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, The Believer, Spin, L.A. Weekly, Essence, and many other publications. He served as the music editor of Vibe, deputy editor of XXL, literary editor of Russell Simmonss Oneworld, deputy editor of BET.com, and a contributing writer for The Source during the 1990s. His interview with the late Pulitzer-winning playwright August Wilson is anthologized in The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers, and his fiction has been published in Wanderlust, Brown Sugar 3: When Opposites Attract, Oneworld, Rap Pages, and Uptown.