Author Darieck Scott to read selections from his book Hex May 3, 2007

Hex opens in Miami in the near future, where celebrations roil the city after the announcement of Castro’ s death. Amid the chaos and debauchery, two visiting graduate students, Langston and Azaril, search for a friend who suddenly goes missing — Damian, a charismatic seducer who has drawn the two of them into his orbit in the past. Frustrated in their initial attempts to trace Damian’ s whereabouts, the two seek help from Langston’ s aunt, a renowned psychic, whose cryptic warnings and unexpected hunches guide them on a quest that takes them to New Haven and New York City and entangles them in the investigation of Damian’ s family history — and draws the hostile attention of powerful and apparently supernatural forces..

About Darieck Scott:

Previously, Scott wrote Traitor to the Race (Dutton 1995), which was hailed as “an outstanding debut” and “an exemplary gay literary creation” by reviewers at the Chicago Tribune and the Lambda Book Report, and appeared on the San Francisco Chronicle Bestsellers list. Scott is also the editor of Best Black Gay Erotica (Cleis, 2005), which includes the work of critically-acclaimed authors Samuel R. Delany, Thomas Glave, and scholar Robert Reid-Pharr.

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