Street Fiction: Urban Fiction Author Interviews, Book Reviews and Writing Resources
Hip Hop, Street Lit, and Urban Fiction Book Reviews and Author Interviews
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While hairstylist Melody Pullman has no problem keeping clients in her chair, she can’t keep her bills paid once her crack-addicted husband, Big Steve, steps through the revolving door leading in and out of prison. She soon finds what seems to be a sexual and financial solution when she becomes … [Read more...]
Street lit is also known to its enthusiastic readers as "urban fiction," "ghetto lit," "hip-hop lit," and "gangsta lit." No matter what it's called, it remains one of the most significant and increasingly popular forms of modern literature. This text provides a much-needed resource guide to this … [Read more...]
To all those who stand tall through it all! This one for y'all. In life there's a start and finish to everything, but what counts the most are the things one does while going through it, such as having morals and principles that detour even the thought of indulging in activities that put your … [Read more...]
After discovering the true identity of his father, Money takes a major step back in his relationships with his mother and Karma. Driven by an insatiable need to find him, Money spends his nights on the beat asking any and everyone of Jimmy's whereabouts. All the while, Karma has been forced to care … [Read more...]
After her mother is brutally murdered by an abusive boyfriend, Karma Alonso-Walker decides to take matters into her own hands and avenge her mother's death...by any means necessary. While on her journey to vengeance, Karma falls in love with Money Parks, a Newark, New Jersey, police officer. As the … [Read more...]
Freedom is Not Free is about a Houston Police Officer named Rashard “Stone” Williams. Stone is apart of an elite fugitive task force known in the streets of Houston as the “Ghost Squad”. The young officer’s life is suddenly interrupted and he has to return to his hometown to bury his … [Read more...]
The streets are pitch black, but a different shade of darkness has engulfed the north Bronx neighborhood known as Edenwald. Sleepless nights, suspicion, and violence are plaguing the hood, all a result of rampant use of cocaine, known as "hard white" among residents. Two Edenwald residents, Melquan … [Read more...]
Terrell (A.K.A) Pharaoh a well known drug lord who runs the streets of Yonkers New York, is facing problems everywhere he turns. With people out to kill him and the police hot on his tracks Pharaoh's empire is soon to crumble. After reportedly being dead, he leaves behind his protege and younger … [Read more...]
In every city of every state you will find an urban ghetto full of drugs and guns, both of which breed hate and pain; in the eyes of many this is a cocktail of death and destruction, but for those who reside there it's home/ Prior to the Government's crackdown on all of the alleged gang leaders, … [Read more...]
