Max King Cap
Former city worker Max King Cap is a writer whose work appears in the The Racial Imaginary, Tahoma Literary Review, the Threepenny Review, Ponder Review, and Artillery Magazine; as a visual artist he has had numerous exhibitions in Europe and the United States. He earned his MFA from the University of Chicago, his doctorate from the University of Southern California, and has taught at Columbia College Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology, and Pitzer College. He lives in Los Angeles.
Reading List
The Boy on the Tracks
In this essay, people’s names and certain identifying places and street names have been obscured. After passing the Addison ballpark stop—Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs; losers during the lifetimes of both my father and grandfather and for the duration of my residence in the city—the elevated tracks head north for four blocks […]
The Man in My Chair
In this essay, people’s names and certain identifying places and street names have been obscured. A ritualistic vulgarity pervades nearly every male-only environment, and each welcomed initiate is quickly and willfully infected with it. Our better angels are not only denied entrance, they are insulted and threatened at the door. It often erupts by […]