Street Fiction: Urban Fiction Author Interviews, Urban Fiction News, and Urban Fiction Book Reviews
Hip Hop, Street Lit, and Urban Fiction Book Reviews and Author Interviews
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Outside the apartment where a wake is going on, the manager of the A & P across the street is robbed. Reverend Short, a storefront preacher addicted to opium and brandy, is watching from a bedroom window in the flat. He leans too far and falls out; a bread basket, sitting outside the bakery below, … [Read more...]
The author of Cotton Comes to Harlem offers here his most dramatic and thrilling novel. A white undercover cop vents his rage and starts a cycle of violence from which there is no escape. Walker, one of New York's embittered policemen, is vicious when drunk. Staggering into a restaurant on a … [Read more...]
Black flim-flam man Deke O’Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta’s state penitentiary than he’s back on the streets working the scam of a lifetime. As sponsor of the Back-to-Africa movement he’s counting on the big Harlem rally to produce a big collection – for his own private charity. But the … [Read more...]
James Monroe was young and educated. He stood before the judge and tried to look humble and heard himself sentenced to twenty years in prison…. Here is Chester Himes’s great novel of prison life. It is a story both of brutal debasement and of the slow growth of maturity and compassion. It is … [Read more...]
A few weeks ago, I decided I was going to devote all of October to reading the Godfathers (or Grandfathers) of Street Fiction. Authors like Donald Goines, Iceberg Slim, and Chester Himes. Street fiction might not exist if these three authors, and a few others, hadn't paved the way for the street lit … [Read more...]
This title will be available Fall 2011. You may place an order and the item will be shipped when it … [Read More...]
Street lit is also known to its enthusiastic readers as "urban fiction," "ghetto lit," "hip-hop … [Read More...]
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