SPOTLIGHT: Jay Neugeboren

Jay Neugeboren, who contributed the Winter 2025 guest essay of EHL, “Morning Line + CODA”, has news to share with the community!

The CUNY Graduate Center, at 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016, will host a FREE presentation, panel and question-and-answer session with Jay and his son, Eli Neugeboren, exploring the process and method behind their non-fiction graphic memoir, “Whatever Happened to Frankie King.”

This event, titled “Brooklyn, Books, and Basketball: Whatever Happened to Frankie King?” will take place from 6:30-9 p.m. Wednesday, March 26, in 5414: DGSC Meeting Room with moderator Sara Gomez-Woolley.

Jay Neugeboren is also the author of After Camus (2024), available through Madville Publishing. Here’s the synopsis:

A troubled marriage — and a love story — are set against the background of the AIDS pandemic and the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq. Saul Davidoff and Tolle Riordan, who meet during a protest against the Vietnam War, marry, live through the Plague Years of the AIDS epidemic, raise a family… and burn out. Camus is a hero to both of them: Tolle, a young dancer and choreographer, has a liaison with him in Paris shortly before his death; Saul, inspired by Camus’s The Plague, becomes an infectious disease (and AIDS) doctor… and Camus becomes a ghostly presence central to our story.