ICEBERG SLIM: THE LIFE AS ART by Peter A. Muckley
The life of Robert Beck is one of tragedy, drama, triumph, and triumphant disappointment. His life and the lives he witnessed inspired the memorable characters he created in his novels and essays penned until his death in 1992. In Iceberg Slim, unofficial biographer Peter Muckley has dissected the characters and prose of Pimp, Trick Baby, [...]
DOOM FOX by Iceberg Slim
Propelled by the story of Joe “Kong” Allen and his gorgeous, treacherous wife, Doom Fox is the last in Iceberg Slim’s legendary series of underground novels. Written in 1978 and unpublished until now, Doom Fox is a tale of the Los Angeles ghetto that begins after World War II and spans the next thirty years. [...]
AIRTIGHT WILLIE & ME by Iceberg Slim
When it comes to “hos” and the men who run them, when it comes to intriguing and super-paced rivalry between ambitious pushers and dealers who sell dreams in a blizzard of white powder, when it comes to knowing the streets, it takes a real player and that player is Robert Beck. For more than two [...]
DEATH WISH by Iceberg Slim
Author Robert Beck, better known by his ghetto pseudonym, “Iceberg Slim,” again displays his unique and compelling talent in this novel about the mafia – an organization whose working details he know intimately. It’s an ideal setting for Beck’s superb characterization as he portrays the greedy Don Jimmy Collucci, who wants nothing less than to [...]
LONG WHITE CON by Iceberg Slim
Author Robert Beck, better known by his ghetto pseudonym, “Iceberg Slim,” told the story of a blue-eyed, light haired, white-skinned Negro called “White Folks,” the most incredible con man the ghetto ever spawned, in the most famous of all of his books, Trick Baby. That, however, wasn’t all of the story of White Folks. Beck [...]
THE NAKED SOUL OF ICEBERG SLIM by Iceberg Slim
Don’t cry for his soul because he’s Black. Though Black is pain. Black is death. Black is despair. Black is the ghetto where he was born. And lived. As a pimp, dope addict, brutalizer of women – and other Blcks. But he cured himself of the ghetto rot. To write – as no other man [...]
MAMA BLACK WIDOW by Iceberg Slim
Mama Black Widow tells the story of Otis Tilson, a comely and tragic homosexual queen adrift with his brothers and sisters in the drk, labyrinthine world of pimping, tricking, violence, and petty crime. Written in the jagged, vivid, and always authentic language of the homeosexual underground and the black ghetto, Mama Black Widow is a [...]
