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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Corey and his best friend Max are two members, of a ruthless gang of street criminals that calls themselves Y.R.D. (Young, Rich and Dangerous). Their small criminal organization is responsible for a sting of bank robberies, drug dealing, extortion and murder. The leader of YRD is Devon Smith, a … [Read more...]
Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age in the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its … [Read more...]
What happens when a white girl flirts with the color lines and crosses the border into gang territory, where the bullets are in part real and the rules can’t be broken? J-Love tells this incredible story inspired by her own remarkable life. Amber, a fearless white girl, has a passion for rap … [Read more...]
Boundless determination and hard work made Jaden the most celebrated athlete in the Northeast. Anyone who watched a Lincoln football game knew he was a budding star. With an ailing mother and bills to pay, a pro career seemed like a logical way out, but when jealousy eats at his best friend, Devlin, … [Read more...]
In the trilogy’s previous entry, jealousy ignited long-simmering tensions between Promise, Squeeze, and Show, leading to an all-out gang war. Streets of New York Volume 3 finds the neighborhood reeling from the pain of losing a son and brother to gang violence, yet still, the mayhem continues. The … [Read more...]
Volume II brings together the collective efforts of Anthony Whyte, Erick S. Gray and Mark Anthony with devastating foreward aptly delivered by K’wan. A year later Promise tries to pull farther away from the gangsta life, but the streets keep calling. Squeeze and Show are making out like bandits … [Read more...]
A true coming of age urbanthology, The Streets of New York Volume 1 offers readers a descriptive trip into the lives of Promise, Squeeze, Show and Pooh, young, big, brash and bold from the streets of Brook-Nam. They are modern day gangstas who take the law into their own hands by helping rid the … [Read more...]
In this debut thriller, the first of the Cross series set mainly in South Carolina, Rico Adams devises a plan to steal millions of dollars from an offshore bank account by means of cashing out through a Las Vegas casino a plan that requires lots of gambling money in advance. Because he spends too … [Read more...]
Carin Douglas is a fearless young girl, thrust into the role of a stickup kid alongside Brooklyn's most notorious thugs. She learns to fight, to survive, and ultimately to shine through a series of events that take her from a young black girl on the verge to a designer-clad diva with a hot car, an … [Read more...]
