Ellison's near fanatical commitment to sound novelistic form and structure has loads to do with why 'Juneteenth' wasn't published while he was alive.

"We had oral sex. He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, 'I never slept with her."'

"Hoffa's pending return to Teamster politics threatened to obstruct the Mafia's drain on the Union's multibillion-dollar holdings — or else, why would he have vanished?"

"They are gathering fire and I do believe the next great moment in history is theirs. God knows, for my unborn daughter's sake, I hope so"