Over the last several years , I had watched the shelves of black bookstores around the country and the tables of street vendors , particularly in New York City , become overrun with novels that seemed to appeal exclusively to our most prurient natures -- as if these nasty books were pairing off back in the stockrooms like little paperback rabbits and churning out even more graphic offspring that make Ralph Ellison books cringe into a dusty corner .
Ralph Ellison /people/deceased_person/place_of_death New York City
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