![]() ![]() He was inspired to make the documentary by MTV–its hard to know if he’s serious or joking, but he laughs. In one portion of the trailer, he is reading for inmates at the prison where he served time fifteen years earlier. He showed a trailer of the film before reading and he hopes to show it later in the year at NYU. Jackson has been making a documentary about himself and his stories and the making of the book. Still, Jackson insists the autobiographical elements are only hinted at this is “fiction disguised as memoir.” The focus of the reading is on Champ, a protagonist similar to himself (he says he isn’t quite ready to read from the perspective of his female characters yet). He did time for selling crack, a drug referenced in the selection he read from. Jackson has been to jail, and he doesn’t even mean the MFA program he graduated from at New York University. Later he’ll explain why: “I didn’t want anybody to catch any cases.” Jackson, celebrating the launch at Greenlight Bookstore, dispels the notion that he wrote a memoir. Jackson, has been promoted as a fictionalized account of his time growing up as a black man in predominantly white Portland, Oregon. The Residue Years, the debut novel by Mitchell S. ![]()
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