EPISODE · Mar 12, 2025 · 50 MIN
Episode 407: ‘The Great Wound’ of a Self-Exiled Brooklyn Basketball Legend
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In 1951, Frankie King of James Madison High was a Brooklyn legend, the youngest basketball player ever to make first-team all city before he withdrew from public life while remaining in and of the city — writing pornography for the mob to pay the rent, ambitious novels in his own voice and then a million-book-selling “cozy cat” series under the pen name Alice Nestleton. Writer Jay Neugeboren and his son, illustrator Eli Neugeboren, join LIT NYC host Harry Siegel to talk about their graphic novel, the graphic novel “Whatever Happened to Frankie King.,” how his family story connects with their own and much more in the latest episode of LIT NYC.
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In 1951, Frankie King of James Madison High was a Brooklyn legend, the youngest basketball player ever to make first-team all city before he withdrew from public life while remaining in and of the city — writing pornography for the mob to pay the rent, ambitious novels in his own voice and then a million-book-selling “cozy cat” series under the pen name Alice Nestleton. Writer Jay Neugeboren and his son, illustrator Eli Neugeboren, join LIT NYC host Harry Siegel to talk about their graphic novel, the graphic novel “Whatever Happened to Frankie King.,” how his family story connects with their own and much more in the latest episode of LIT NYC.
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