Across The River

Elliot Meyer draws the people he's too scared to talk to.

At twenty-three, he's a late-blooming art student in Hoboken with a sketchbook full of strangers he's never once said hello to. Then his roommates drag him across the river to Vesper, a Lower East Side nightclub built inside an old funeral parlor, and Elliot makes the mistake of sketching the man holding court on the marble staircase.

Donovan Black wears leather, kohl, and silver on every f...