Thank you for joining me.Īaron Foley: Thanks for having me. He’s written and edited two guidebooks about Detroit as well. Sophia Saliby: The new novel Boys Come First by Aaron Foley follows three gay Black men trying to navigate their thirties, hookups and career struggles amid a changing city of Detroit.įoley is also a Senior Editor with PBS NewsHour. What does it mean to walk through a life in Detroit? But I didn't want to like dwell on that though. And I wanted to do something where it's just like okay, this is a city that's gone through a lot, yes. People still have lives, love, romance, career ambitions, dreams, all of that. It's almost a genre where you cannot write about Detroit without writing about the destruction and the devastation and things like that.
