"Street Talk": Pamphlet Literature of the Nigerian Marketplace. Sterling Memorial Library, Hanke Gallery, Yale University, March 27-Sept 14, 2025. Photos from the opening of the show featuring my collection from the Onitsha Market as featured in 'Life Turns Man Up and Down' (Pantheon, 2001)

Street Talk. KGB Bar, Tuesday, March 11th, after 7, ‘Street Talk: Pamphlet Literature of the Nigerian Marketplace.’Liquid coolants and high palaver.

From the collection of The Private Library/Jumel Terrace Books.

Father and son. On his birthday. (photo: Curt Hoppe)

Marlon James's 'Get Millie Black', a crime show set in Kingston and London, premiers on HBO this evening at 9. A longtime member of our household, this is the LA Times photo for his 'Brief History of Seven Killings' review our much missed Tom the Cat photo bombed here in the library.

With my Sis’ on Her Happy Birthday!!! (Photo & Painting by Curt Hoppe)

The library/bookstore/house cat, Orangelo, pulling out a copy of 'Lagos Noir' while stretching long for some silvervine dried fruit galls.

Gucci for Elle at Jumel Terrace Books.

Amanda Gorman at Jumel Terrace Books.

On my book 'Life Turns Man Up and Down: Highlife, Useful Advice and Mad English.' (NY: Pantheon, 2001)

Oresti Tsonopoulos's portrait of Jumel Terrace Books.

Canadian Bravo, from our Brooklyn days.

The move Uptown. Peter Mintun's infamous commercial for Jumel Terrace Books.