New York Is Killing Me
Alec Wilkinson on the late soul musician Gil Scott-Heron.
"When I feel like giving up, I like to watch this," Gil Scott-Heron said of Ali knocking down Foreman in Zaire. "Ali's thirty-two, having been exiled to nowhere. Unbelievable odds. That's what I've been facing all these years." At sixty-one, Scott-Heron lives in Harlem, in an apartment he rarely leaves.