Bouquets for Bama: Purdy, Please

Part of a posthumous salute to artist James Bama.



Above: Malcolm, by James Purdy (Bantam, 1971). Below: Eustace Chisholm and the Works, by James Purdy (Bantam, 1968).



READ MORE: “The Strange, Unsettling Fiction of James Purdy,” by Jon Michaud (The New Yorker); “‘I'm Not a Gay Writer, I’m a Monster’: How James Purdy Outraged America,” Andrew Male (The Guardian).