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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Caleb Alexander has woven his most explosive and provocative tale to date. Belly of the Beast takes the readers on a violent, gut wrenching, deeply emotional journey through the American prison system. A place where friends become enemies, and enemies band together for survival in a system that is … [Read more...]
Western Pennsylvania in the 1990s is not exactly a popular place for young black people to take up residence. In fact, when Yvette Sims moves there to take a job with a marketing firm, she sees it only as a temporary stop on her way to bigger and better things. Until the day comes that she can find … [Read more...]
As a follow-up to his bestselling Little Black Girl Lost, Keith Lee Johnson takes back into the life of Johnnie Wise, a stunning 15-year-old whose beauty is so seductive it sparked a race riot in New Orleans. Now, the riot is over, the National Guard has left, and life can begin to return to normal … [Read more...]
Johnnie Wise was just fifteen years old when her mother sold her virginity to an unscrupulous white insurance man named Earl Shamus. Stunningly beautiful, with long naturally wavy hair, she possessed the voluptuous body of a thirty-year-old woman. Her skin was the color of brown sugar. Johnnie had … [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...]
In the post-Watts Rebellion 1970s, Chester L. Simmons takes up the study of Korean martial arts – hapkido and tae kwan do – and finds it easier to understand than the Korean-American shopkeepers catering to African Americans in South Central “El-A.” As he attempts to understand the racial … [Read more...]
The author of the bestselling memoir Makes Me Wanna Holler presents a profound debut novel – in the tradition of Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth – that captures the dynamics of class and race in today’s urban integrated communities. Nathan McCall’s … [Read more...]
