Proust Questionnaire: DuVay Knox

DuVay Knox is forging his own path, yet at the same time, paying tribute to the great black pulp writers of the past like Iceberg Slim and Donald Goines.

When a writer finds their voice, authentic and not forced by any trends, or engineered by creative writing workshop professors and their agents, their prose will tend to glow like a briefcase full of gold amongst the manufactured voices trying so hard to sound like a Wallace or a an Updike or a Franzen.

His novel, The Pussy Detective (CLASH BOOKS, 2022) is for the reader that has no hang ups, and is of the mind to devour storytelling that doesn't apologize or pull punches and will make you laugh out loud as it descrambles your brain from today's newspeak invading our daily lives.


1--What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Fucking and Traveling. Or Fucking Traveling.


2--What is your greatest fear?

The coming invasion of Gay Zombies.


3--What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

Impatience.


4--What is the trait you most deplore in others?

Bullyism.


5--Which living person do you most admire?

TABITHA BLAIR


6--What is your greatest extravagance?

Black n Mild Cigarillos.


7--What is your current state of mind?
Godlike. 

Im in the zone with my writing these days.


8--What do you consider the most overrated virtue?

Kindness.


9--On what occasion do you lie?

Talkin to Bitches.


10--What do you most dislike about your appearance?

Im not a 7 Footer like I shooda been.


11--Which living person do you most despise?

Any Black Intellectual.


12--What is the quality you most like in a man?

Ion like men like that.


13--What is the quality you most like in a woman?

My SEMEN. Because its very high quality.


14--Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

I say NO way more than YES to shit.


15--What or who is the greatest love of your life?

TABITHA BLAIR/Co-Owner of Black Pulp Fiction.


16--When and where were you happiest?

My Daddy's Nuts.


17--Which talent would you most like to have?

Majickal Powers.


18--If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

Ability to Draw.


19--What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Being Born a Real Nigga.


20--If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?

A Real Nigga.


21--Where would you most like to live?

Niggadom.


22--What is your most treasured possession?
My collection of panties from every woman I have fucked over the years.


23--What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

DEATH.


24--What is your favorite occupation?

Writing Erotic Occult Folklore n Being a Bard of the Oral Griot Tradition.


25--What is your most marked characteristic?

My Intuition is highly developed.


26--What do you most value in your friends?

Loyalty.


27--Who are your favorite writers? 

Robert DeCoy/Iceberg Slim/Nathan Heard/Donald Goines/Gayl Jones/Zora Neale Hurston/Gloria Naylor/Jade Sharma/Clarence Cooper Jr/Tabitha Blair/Leroi Jones/Dante Alighieri/Francis Bacon/Giacoma Casanova/Niccolo Machiavelli/Baltasar Gracian/Eldridge Cleaver/George Jackson/Jamaica Kincaid/Paul Laurence Dunbar


28--Who is your hero of fiction?

Stagolee/John Henry/Shine


29--Which historical figure do you most identify with?

Nat Turner


30--Who are your heroes in real life?

Well-since mah Daddy up n Died--Any Nigga dat takes on Whitey and The System.


31--What are your favorite names?

Old School ones, for example: BERTHA for wommin .... or LEROY for men.


32--What is it that you most dislike?

Cumming too kwik.


33--What is your greatest regret?

I shoulda been a Contender (boxing).


34--How would you like to die?

In sum Pussy.


35--What is your motto?

The Worlds Smartest/Rude/Raw & Unadulterated Nigga.