A love letter to Harlem and it’s music, this book offended all kinds of people. McKay’s honesty about sex was brave and inflammatory.
S3 E1 Voluptuous Jazzing: McKay, ‘Home to Harlem’ (1928
S1 E3 Jack Kerouac, ‘The Dharma Bums’ (1959): Just One Orgy
Was Jack Kerouac a pilgrim or self-obsessed wanker? Featuring an indecent orgy in the name of religion, this book was censored in 1963.
