Red Emma’s

Vortex, Baba traces the personal and collective lives of Baba L'Salaam, Adon Aesh, Jamal Moore and other Park Vibe players rooted in a drum circle community sustained from 1960s Black Arts radicalism onward through today's rising generations. Joining immersive literary journalism and philosophical explorations, Majer interrogates immediacies of race, feeling, and sociality.

Gerald Majer is author of The Velvet Lounge (Columbia University Press) and Vortex, Baba (Hachure Press). His work appears in Callaloo, Chicago Review, Georgia Review, Yale Review and other journals. He lives in Baltimore and New Mexico.